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Construction of thousands of new housing unitses in west bank settlements. the move represents the largest settlement expansion by israel in more than three years. and comes just days after the prime minister spoke by phone with president trump. we want to go live to jerusalem and bring in cnn's oren lieberma liebermann. oren, this is being seen here as israelis capitalizing on what they see as a new environment provided by the inauguration of donald trump? >> very much so. president netanyahu expected donald trump to be much more accepting of the announcement of the largest settlement constru...

One of the largest settlement expansions in years. 2,500 new homes in the west bank. just two days after his phone call to president trump and promising, quote, no daylight between the u.s. and israel. we are building, he tweeted tuesday, and we will continue to build. sunday netanyahu lifted off restrictions on settlement construction in a contested part of east jerusalem and announced 500 new settlement homes there telling his cabinet it was just the beginning. >> translator: on the issue of settlement, we will continue to look out for iz wisely and responsible for the benefit of the settlem...

Palestinians that peace may now no longer run through washington and palestinians have been looking to the international community more and more. >> orin, how is the white house responding to the expansion? >> white house press secretary sean spicer was asked for comment on the announcement of 2,500 new settlement units. and he basically said israel is a huge ally of the u.s. and they'll discuss it. he said prime minister benjamin netanyahu and donald trump a meeting next month and they'll talk about it. he didn't condemn it, he didn't criticize it. something we routinely heard when it came to...

Save israel. >> we reject the criticism that this 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. >> in his four years as secretary of state, deal between israelis and palestinians escaped kerry but he rejected the idea that he failed. >> i didn't fail. we didn't fail. united states didn't fail. we put what i think is still the solution on the table. but the parties failed. >> even before ...

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 iso...