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License to further unfetter settlement construction that we fundamentally opposed. 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 for the settlement resolution in 2011 that we vetoed and again this year along with every other member and council....

Of terrorism and stopping glorification of violence. we called on them to continue efforts to strengthen their own institutions and improve governance and transparity and accountability. we stress that the hamas arms buildup and militant activities in gaza must stop. along with our quartet partners, we have called on israel to end the policy of settlement construction and expansion, of taking land for exclusive israeli use and denyingç palestinian development. to reverse the current process, the u.s. and our partners have encouraged israel to resume the transfer of greater civil authority to...

Good time. so sad!" as for the israelis, they did more than tweet. cnn's elise labott reports. >> reporter: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is escalating his attack against the obama administration, clearly still angry over the u.n. vote declaring israeli settlements illegal. >> friends don't take friends to the security council. >> reporter: netanyahu summoned the u.s. ambassador and has accused president obama and secretary of state john kerry of orchestrating what he called a shameful ambush at the u.n. telling his cabinet he has ironclad proof. >> translator: from the informatio...

What the u.s. was considering, what are its options about laying out the speech with a vision that secretary of state kerry is supposed to do later this week. or other types of options. but they say the u.s. never really knew what this resolution was going to say and this is why they couldn't vote on it. kate what officials are saying is the very thing we're seeing today, that the israelis are announcing new settlement construction, it was already in the pipeline, but now they're going ahead, is the very reason why the u.s. had to push forward this resolution and vote -- not necessarily push f...

Resolution before the u.n. security council. the white house vehemently denying that. this as secretary of state john kerry prepares to outline a peace plan later this week. what will he say? elise labott broke the news in washington. she has more. this is a tough, tough situation, context, to deliver those remarks in. and frankly with the admission they just did not get nearly as far as they wanted to on this. >> reporter: that's right, poppy. as you said, the white house is vehemently denying those accusations that the u.s. orchestrated this vote in some kind of ambush against israel saying ...