“Friends, Don’t Take Friends, to the Security Council”

Israel fired back at Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasting Kerry’s lengthy televised rebuke of the Middle Eastern democracy.

Netanyahu, speaking in Jerusalem just over an hour after Kerry’s speech had ended, said Kerry’s rhetoric was “as unbalanced as the anti-Israel resolution passed [at the United Nations] last week.”

“Secretary Kerry paid lip service to the unrelenting campaign of terror that has been waged by the Palestinians against the Jewish State,” he said, later adding: “Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.”

Israeli officials have said since the Security Council resolution was passed on Friday that the U.S. played a covert role in developing the proposal — charges the U.S. has denied. Israel’s government was enraged after the U.S. abstained from voting on the resolution, which called Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem a violation of international law.

But Netanyahu on Wednesday made the firmest — and most-high ranking — accusation that America secretly worked toward advancing the resolution.

“We have it on absolutely incontestable evidence the U.S. organized, advanced and brought this resolution to the Security Council,” said Netanyahu, who promised to share the “sensitive” intelligence with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump tweeted his support for Israel before Kerry even spoke, and Netanyahu quickly returned the goodwill on Twitter: “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!”

During his remarks, Netanyahu again looked past the Obama administration and addressed Trump.

“Israel looks forward to working with President-elect Trump and with the American Congress – Democrats and Republicans alike – to mitigate the damage this resolution has done and ultimately repeal it,” he said.

Netanyahu said that while he sought peace, his Palestinian counterpart, President Mahmoud Abbas, has walked away from peace offers “time and time again.”

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