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Occasions under george w. bush alone the council passed six resolutions that israel opposed, including one that endorsed a plan calling for a complete freeze on settlements, including natural growth. let me read you the lead paragraph from a "new york times" story dated december 23rd. i quote -- "with the united states abstaining the security council adopt add resolution today strongly deploring israel's handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories, which the resolution defined as including jerusalem. all of the 14 other security council members voted in favor." my friends that sto...

Yet despite growing pressure the obama administration held a strong line against u.n. action -- any u.n. action. we were the only administration since 1967 that had not allowed any resolution to pass that israel opposed. in fact, the only time in eight years the obama administration exercised its veto at the united nations was against a one-sided settlement resolution in 2011. and that resolution didn't mention incitement or violence. let's look at what happened since then. since then there have been over 30,000 settlement units advanced through some stage of the planning process. that's right...

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...

Alone the council passed six resolutions that israel opposed including one that endorsed a plan calling for a complete freeze on settlements including natural growth. let me read you the lead paragraph from a "new york times" story dated december 23. i quote, with the united states abstaining the security council adopted a resolution today strongly deploring israel's handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories which the resolution defined as including jerusalem. all of the 14 other security council members voted in favor. my friends, that story was not written last week. it was wr...

Two-state solution. and both sides in this conflict must take responsibility to do that. we have repeatedly and emphatically stressed to the palestinians that all incitement to violence must stop. we have consistently condemned all violence and terrorism and we have strongly opposed unilateral efforts to delegitimize israel in international fora. we have made countless public and private exhortations to the israelis to stop the march of settlements. in literally hundreds of conversations with prime minister netanyahu, i have made clear that continued settlement activity would only increase pre...