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20th is fast approaching. netanyahu responded, president-elect trump, thank you for your warm friendship and clear-cut support for israel. now, prime minister netanyahu warning against any more u.n. action. israeli officials very concerned that kerry's ideas could be enshrined in a new resolution before president obama leaves office. u.s. officials say they do not see any more u.n. action. meanwhile, president-elect donald trump is working with congress to de-fund the u.n. if that first vote was not overturned, jake. >> thank you very much. let's go live to jerusalem and our own cnn's corres...

Defending u.s. support of israel. >> no american administration has done more for israel security than barack obama's. >> reporter: netanyahu quickly called the speech a biased attack that only paid lip service to palestinian terror. >> what he did was to spend most of his speech blaming israel for the lack of peace. >> reporter: kerry's message comes amid a bitter war of words between u.s. and israel after washington refused to veto a u.n. resolution condemning israeli settlements, allowing it to pass. >> some seem to believe that the u.s. friendship means that the u.s. must accept any policy...

Agenda coming from the most extreme elements. that's a pretty blunt message. >> look, as aaron said, very long speech. but the core summed up pretty i think concisely which is, when he said that while prime minister netanyahu publicly supports a two-state solution, that word "publicly" underlined, his government is pursuing settlement policy that infect render it impractical and effectively extinguishing it. that choice, kerry argued in the long run will leave israel less secure at home and more isolated internationally. a passionate, and by the way, offered not only stick in that sense, more ...

Government views as illegal. what they have done is taken away the political rhetoric of the last 15 to 20 years and restored the original rhetoric of the united states which is that settlements are illegal. we are talking a lot about that. while john kerry was giving the speech, approvals from the israeli government were given for another settlement in the west bank. right now, would it be a fair move to stop making more settlements right now as this is being contested? >> some of it was a reaction to the resolution itself. this is one country saying if you are going to abandon and isolate me...

Hour and ten-minute address from john kerry? >> take it into the context what's been happening over the last several weeks and the context how secretary kerry is giving this speech. he made a nod to palestinian incitement, choices palestinians had to make, but a large chunk of this speech was about the semg settlements, secretary kerry made clear he thought was creating an impediment to peace making a two-state solution impossible and actually driving israelis to a one-state solution, which basically then they would be responsible for administers all the palestinians and he said obviously, isr...