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>> 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 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. >> reporter: in his four years as secretary of state, a deal between israelis and palestinians has escaped kerry, but in a recent interview with cnn, he rejected the idea that he failed. >> i didn't fail. we didn't fail. the united state...

Moving high-stakes diplomatic maneuvering involving u.s., israel and palestinians, moments ago ap reporting palestinian president mahmoud abbas is ready to resume peace talks if israel freezes settlement construction. this, of course, follows closely from speeches of prime minister netanyahu and secretary of state john kerry. joining me now from seattle senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute and former fbi double agent and joining us from philadelphia gop strategist and former white house aide to george h.w. bush reverend joe watkins. thank you for joining me. secretary kerry w...

Would have been giving license to further unfettered settlement construction that we fundamentally oppose. so 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. that includes many of the friends of israel, including the united kingdom, france, russia. all of whom voted in favor of the settlements resolution in 2011 we vetoed and again this year along with e...

Within what people generally expect to be the borders of an israel in a two-state solution. this is not even what's happening. this is building deep inside the west bank. i think part of what we're trying to do is bring more attention on that and have people like you reporting on that. this is changing the facts on the ground and making a two-state solution nothing more than a talking point. >> i hear what you're saying, but you still didn't, respectfully, answer the question which is, voters out there, american citizens out there, might think on one hand you have people building homes and you...

Calling on israel to return to its pre-1967 borders. that's inconsistent with what had been u.s. policy under the bush administration. so that's incredibly controversial and kerry is wrong, it's not consistent with what had, the policy under the george w. bush administration. >> so much of the speech was spent talking about settlement construction, and not much time talking about the infauda, and thinks the palestinians have done to sabotage the peace process. >> you'll hear chuck schumer, what you heard benjamin netanyahu say, there was a lot of finger pointing at israel but no calls on the p...