Prime Minister Theresa May has distanced the UK from Washington after Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a strong rebuke of Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Kerry delivered a keynote speech this week that criticized Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet as the “most right-wing coalition in Israeli history,” and warned that the rapid expansion of settlements was “leading toward one state and perpetual occupation.”
As a result, the outgoing secretary of state said the so-called two-state solution was in “serious jeopardy.”
May’s spokesman said the prime minister believed it was “not appropriate” to attack the composition of Netanyahu’s cabinet or focus solely on the issue of Israeli settlement construction as “the only problem in this conflict.”
“The government believes that negotiations will only succeed when they are conducted between the two parties, supported by the international community,” he said.
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