In this handout image supplied by the office of the Palestinian president, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on November 20, 2012 in Ramallah, West Bank. Abbas is preparing to make an appeal to the United Nations on November 29 to grant nonmember status to the Palestinian Authority as efforts by Western and Arab diplomats to end the confrontation between Israel and Gaza have escalated.