The Palestinians have appealed to the United Nations General Assembly to vote for a resolution calling for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territories. “Please stand on the right side of history, with international law, with freedom, with peace. The alternative is what you witness every day on your TV screens and what the Palestinian people are enduring in their flesh,” the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said in New York. The Palestinian resolution is intended to increase pressure on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories through the UN General Ass…