(CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he will pursue a full United Nations membership bid during a speech Friday that was likely meant to both make the case for membership and manage domestic expectations.

"We are going to the United Nations to attain full membership" from the U.N. Security Council, Abbas told an audience in Ramallah, tempering his rhetoric by adding that "we are not going to bring independence. Let's not exaggerate.

"We will continue to negotiate," he said.

Abbas says he wants the Palestinian territories "to be represented in its natural borders," calling disputed territories inhabited by Israeli settlers "illegal."

"We want a seat at the United Nations, and we don't want anything more," Abbas said.

He says Palestinian leadership does not seek to "isolate the state of Israel, but rather isolate the policies of Israel," saying he will head to the United Nations headquarters in New York "carrying an olive branch with us."

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More than anything, Israel's ongoing brutish treatment of its neighbors to us represent the hypocrisy of Jewish pseudo-intellectual social scientists in america and europe whom condemn expressions of european nationalism in the past, as well as cross-ethnic white identity in the present. To that effect, this pair of perpetually warring desert semites should be watched carefully.