Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is getting tired of waiting. 

Abbas said Thursday that the Palestinians would consider asking the U.S. and the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 border in several months’ time, if the peace process with Israel fails.

Abbas’s comments came after his meeting in Ramallah with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Geith and General Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman. The two Egyptian emissaries came to Ramallah to discuss with Abbas ways of resuming the stalled peace talks with Israel.

The key to resuming the U.S brokered direct talks, lays in the extension of a 10 months moratorium on new West Bank settlement housing that expired on September 26.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated that the Palestinians won’t return to the negotiating table unless Israel stops all construction in the West Bank – land Palestinians want for a future state.

It appears Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet would not support a renewal of the settlement moratorium, even if he wished to do so.