our own positions, our own words, our own principles. >> reporter: israel says it has proof washington secretly orchestrated the vote and would show to it president-elect trump when he takes office in just a few weeks. >> we have it on absolutely incontestable evidence that the united states organized, advanced, and brought this resolution. >> reporter: kerry denied the claims and framed the vote as an effort to save israel from a policy that threatened its future as a jewish state. >> we reject the criticism that the vote abandons israel. on the contrary, it is not this resolution that is isolating israel. it is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. virtually every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. >> reporter: in his four years as secretary of state, a deal between israelis and palestinians has escaped kerry. in a recent interview with cnn he rejected the idea that he