for more, we are joined by cnn's oren lieberman in jerusalem. morning to you. >> reporter: the prime minister has been a bit quieter today. none of the accusations that the u.s. was colluding and working behind israel's back to get this resolution passed, perhaps because now he's waiting to see what secretary of state john kerry has to say. what is his vision for peace, what will he lay out, and what will it entail. we are expecting, rather i should say he will lay out his parameters, what he sees as the conditions needed to bring israelis and palestinians back to the table, to get them talking, how he sees the resolution of some of the complex issues here, the status of jerusalem, borders and refugees and yet it seems especially with this war of words we have been seeing between netanyahu and the obama administration, that pretty much whatever kerry says is not going to be taken well here. >> we just received this so just picked this up on twitter from the prime minister there in israel. president-elect trump, put it on the screen, thank you fo

we heard oren lieberman say the reaction is not slowing up.rely fits into that category of not slowing down. watch this. >> look, it's an old story that the united nations gangs up against israel. what is new is that the united states did not stand up and oppose that gang-up and what is outrageous is that the united states was actually behind that gang-up. i think it was a very sad day and really a shameful chapter. what this resolution just did is it gave the palestinians ammunition in their diplomatic and legal war against israel. the united states didn't stop it. they were behind it. >> the ambassador saying very clearly they believe the u.s. was behind this resolution. he did not -- no one has yet offered the evidence that leads them to believe the united states was behind this resolution, but what is your take? what is dermer trying to say? >> i think he's trying to say this resolution, while the administration says will encourage peace, will actually make peace harder to achieve. there's an argument for that if you think about it. becaus

i want to bring in oren lieberman. he is in jerusalem. these are fast-moving developments. oren, i want to get to that. first of all, give us some perspective on the importance of the relationship between the united states and israel and why it is so unique. >> reporter: well, the u.s. has long protected israel at the security council that the u.s. and israel consider anti-israel. it was samantha power and ban ki-moon that said the u.n. has anti-israel bias. it's long been the policy the u.s. would protect he is rail there. this is a small part that goes to military coordination. it re-signed a memorandum of understanding for military aid. 38 bh$38 billion. that's just scratching the surface here. this is a long relationship, a deep relationship and one that's very important to both the u.s. and israel. that's something both the administrations have made clear, obama and netanyahu as this relationship falls apart in the final days. >> really can't overstate that. that's why so many people are paying attention. oren lieberman, thank you so much. >>> i want to bring in john al

for more on all of this, oren lieberman and global afars correspondent elise labott at the state department and national correspondent suzanne malveaux. >> oren start with you. the city of jerusalem cancel add vote to approve new construction in east juices lerusalem about request of prime minister netanyahu. what is the reaction? >> reporter: interesting point. the speech wasn't carried live on israeli television. part may be the decision many here didn't want to hear what ker hi to say after the u.n. security council resolution vote. many israelis content to read about it tomorrow. as for reaction from the leadership here, prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian president musahmoud abbas, taking time to respond. they haven't responded yet. one of the responses we have gotten is from the education minister here, naftali bennett. leader of the right wing party, saying basically, a one-state solution and israel will not accept a terrorist state next door. contactly have who secretary kerry called out in this speech saying it's the settler movement leading the israeli government. so

. >>> joining me now from jerusalem, oren lieberman, also josh rogin joins us, cnn political columnist for the "washington post." oren, i want to start with you. kerry says israel's own prime minister publicly supports a two state solution but that his coalition is the most right wing and extreme in the country's history. how does that square, explain that. >> what he said there and pointed at very specific elements. for example, one of the people he referenced, didn't name specifically but the education minister naftali bennett opposes a two state solution. he made it clear he opposes any palestinian state saying israel will not accept a terrorist state next door. he's also referenced gaza saying that's the palestinian state, look how that's turned out. to continue for one more moment on this point, after trump's election it was bennett who had one of the first responses and his response to president-elect donald trump's election was "the era of a palestinian state is over." that's part of what kerry was talking about. that leading the government. no neftali bennett is not the prime m

oren lieberman is live in jerusalem and before we get to the news of the building in east jerusalem, we have other news that's just in, that's that secretary of state john kerry will give a speech tomorrow at the state department on israel. what more are you learning about this? >>. >> well, we've checked to see what the prime minister's office and a number of other ministers here to see if there's a preemptive strike at the speech and everyone is waiting to see the plan but i suspect it won't change prime minister benjamin netanyahu's position even one iota. he made it clear israel had no intention of abiding by the resolution and that brings us to the building plans for east jerusalem. the plans in the city of jerusalem, that is to say the jerusalem municipality, offer hundreds of homes in east jerusalem. those plans were on the agenda before the security council vote and that's the point, they're staying on the agenda. the city of jerusalem is effectively ignoring the security council resolution as is, for now, prime minister benjamin netanyahu who again says he has no intention o

. >> let's go to cnn's oren lieberman live in jerusalem. before we get to kerry's speech, talk us a netanyahu's reaction here. >> well, it was a measured reaction but one i think we could have expected. we heard his response to the u.n. security council resolution, his response to this wasn't that different. i want to point out he spoke much longer in english than hebrew and that gives you an idea who his audience was. he wasn't speaking to israelis, he was speaking to americans and the general public in the u.s. but he pointed out what he feels is the bias of kerry's speech, a 70-minute speech. netanyahu felt it didn't focus enough on palestinian incitement and violence and focused almost entirely on settlements. netanyahu believes, and he's said this repeatedly, that settlements are not the obstacle to peace. without question with that u.n. security council resolution that is not the international consensus and definitely not the opinion of secretary kerry who pointed out that some of the expansion threatens the ability of putting togethe

oren lieberman before might this fight go from here? >> reporter: prime minister benjamin netanyahu hasn't backed off any language he's used. without question, hashest criticism we've seen from the netanyahu government directed right at president obama. netanyahu has made it very clear he thinks this actions, lashing out at obama was in his words measured, responsible and vigorous and he says that this won't hurt israel's standing in the long run. that country will come to respect israel for standing up to itself. what netanyahu made clear, he's done working with president obama, as ron dermer, israeli ambassador to the u.n., looking forward to president-elect trump who promises to be much friendlier to israel. >> and evidence the u.s. was working on this resolution but have not revealed that evidence publicly kbhap a publicly. what are you hearing? >> reporter: look a palestinian delegation was here a few weeks ago talking with secretary of state john kerry. i think it has something to do with information they have about that. they've

. >> cnn correspondent oren lieberman is following the story from jerusalem and elise labott from cnn live from the state department. elise, new reporting on the claims made by the israelis. what can you tell us? >> reporter: you know, jake, over the last several days the israelis have been very coy about how they know their claims that the united states, in particular secretary of state john kerry, was behind this resolution. a senior israeli official told me just a while ago that the israelis have information from arab sources that secretary kerry and his staff pushed this through kind of hiding behind the palestinians. hiding behind the egyptians, getting them to put the resolution through, and then after the egyptians took it off the table, that secretary kerry and his staff, as this israeli said, was working a covert actor in terms guesting other countries to re-introduce the resolution, and you saw that's what new zealand and others did. but talking to u.s. officials, jake, they say that this is really just a distraction for what happened with the vote itself. which is in respon

. >> oren lieberman is in jerusalem where he's been tracking these fast-breaking developments. i understand an israeli official says evidence of u.s. involvement will be in the u.n. and it will be shared with the trump administration. what's the latest on the standoff? >> well, they're being incredibly vague about what it is this information is or the evidence that they have against the u.s. administration. they say that a senior israeli official says that it's information that indicates there were -- that the u.s. was a covert partner in pushing this through and advancing it. that's an accusation the u.s. has denied, not only the latest part of the accusation but going back until since the first time we heard it. the palestinians deny it as well saying this was worked on with other countries and the u.s. decided to abstain and yet it's an accusation the israelis have not let go, only ramping it up in the last few days, martin. >> then there's secretary of state john kerry. he's expected to deliver a speech later this week that will lay out president obama's vision for the midd

. >> cnn's oren lieberman joins us from jerusalem. the secretary intended for this to be a statement on his vision for peace, but this was received in the prime minister's words as a lecture and one they did not need nor want. >> reporter: you are absolutely right. you heard it there. secretary of state john kerry tried to balance this speech, he tried to point out what he thought were the problems in the palestinian side and the israel side and he even talked about the obama administration's help for israel over the years but on this end, on the end of the government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu, that very much fell on deaf ears. netanyahu said he was quote, disappointed by the sfeepeech a felt it was anti-israel. it seems netanyahu lumps this speech in with the u.n. security council resolution which he still blames squarely on secretary of state john kerry and president obama. here's part of his response. >> this conflict is not about houses or communities in the west bank, the gaza district or anywhere else. this conflict i

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oren lieberman is there. oren, we heard there from the former israeli ambassador, a clear message on his reaction to john kerry's speech. what other reactions are you hearing from israelis and palestinians? >> reporter: women, let me point out one thing, an interesting point. one of your guests suggested this was a speech directed for the israeli public. if so, if that really was the intent, that intent missed the mark. the speech wasn't carried live here. part of that may be the language difference, although that's hard to believe since it's fairly easy to get a translator and many israelis speak english. the bigger part, the resolution that just passed, most israelis don't want to hear another kerry explanation. very much how this speech was viewed. we're working on getting palestinian reaction. the speech ended a few minutes ago. prime minister's office working on their reaction. that is prime minister benjamin netanyahu. taking their time in form lating a response. both sides wanted to hear exactly what j

oren lieberman, have you heard anything from the prime minister? any reaction to this? >> not from the prime minister yet and that may be because it's the sabbath and there may not be a response until after but we've gotten a response from the israeli ambassador to the u.n., he says neither the security council nor unesco can sever the time between the people of israel and the land of israel. it was to be expected that israel's greatest ally would react in the value wes share and they would have vetoed this resolution, i have no doubt the new u.s. administration and the income u.n. secretary general will usher in a new era in terms of the u.n.'s relationship with israel. that, too, seems to be a bit of a parting shot at the shoogs. the ambassador saying that the israeli administration is looking forward to work with president-elect trump who said he would move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel, that is something the israeli government and netanyahu's administration was happy to hear. as elise mentioned, the israelis wor

let's go to oren lieberman whach. oren, what are you hearing? >> i think john kerry will lay out his plan for peace, yet i think there's very little he can say that will endear him to prime minister netanyahu or any israeli government right now. they see what happened at the u.n. as effectively a back stabbing. it's unlikely kerry can present a plan that will be more acceptable, especially given what happened in the last few days. prime minister netanyahu, who up until now over the last week hasn't hesitated to bash president barack obama and kerry along with the rest of the netanyahu government or many in the netanyahu government bashing the official administration. netanyahu has gone quiet today. now it seems he's waiting to hear what kerry has to lay out. other ministers, other israeli politicians haven't hesitated to put out a preemptive strikes against kerry but netanyahu is waiting on this one. what do we expect to hear? as elise pointed out, we heard a speech like this before. bill clinton in the year 2000 gave his clinton parameters a co

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cnn correspondent oren lieberman joins me now from jerusalem and also joining me, cnn global affairs espondent elise labott. first to you, oren. on this issue of israel announcing they're moving ahead with settlements now after the u.n. resolution, why? what -- what's the message here? >> reporter: well, jerusalem, the zoning committee specifically, had this on the agenda from the security council vote. that's the point. they don't care about the u.n. resolution, not the mayor who we spoke with and not bn senjamin netanyahu saying we're not abiding by the resolution. 200 neighborhoods in east jerusalem, simply moving forward. we've always built in jerusalem and are still going to build in jerusalem. the security resolution doesn't change anything from their perspective. netanyahu is sure to note this will bring on criticism from particular president barack obama and secretary of state kerry. i don't think netanyahu cares. we've seen the relationship deteriorate in the last few days, made it clear he's ready for president-elect trump in a few weeks, and that's where he's looking. >> el

cnn's oren lieberman in jerusalem with more this morning. hi. >> hi, don.rime minister benjamin netanyahu firing back after john kerry's speech and the obama administration vision for middle east peace. between netanyahu and kerry deteriorating so rappidly in it final weeks. >> friends need to tell each other the hard truths. >> reporter: a warning that a two-state solution is now in jeopardy. >> the two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. >> reporter: kerry blasting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu accusing him of undermining peace efforts. >> the israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution. his current coalition is the most right wing in israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements. >> reporter: netanyahu firing back, calling the speech a disappointment a bias attack that paid lip service to terror attacks by palestinians. >> israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders. >> reporter: despite repeated de

cnn's oren lieberman is in jerusalem, live with us. what's the reaction from there?> reporter: israel has been furious for the past 24 hours, and that's not going away any time soon as we've seen in a statement from prime minister netanyahu's office. let me read you part of the statement. it says, the obama administration not only failed to protect israel against this gang-up at the u.n., it colluded with it behind the scenes. israel looks forward working with president-elect donald trump to negate the harmful effects of this absurd resolution. netanyahu making it very clear where he's already looking, he's looking to president trump for protection at the u.n. security council and looking to a fresh start with the relationship between the israeli prime minister and the american president. but that wasn't the end of it. he went a step further, taking diplomatic steps against new zealand and senegal, two of the four countries that introduced this resolution. he ordered israel's ambassadors to new zealand and senegal to immediately return to israel, canceled a visit fro

oren lieberman is in jerusalem with the latest. it's interesting.t seems like this is sort of a nod to the bama administration and do your speech and we won't do a defiant vote the same day. is that how you read it? >> i think two different perspectives here. one from the city of jerusalem. we spoke with the city council member. a growing city needs to build and they'll build wherever they feel they need to. but the city council member also said they don't want to vote on it hours before kerry's speech. so, they'll cancel the vote for now. prime minister benjamin netanyahu here is much more difficult to read. is he trying to read a bit of good will before kerry's speech or responding to criticism even from within his own party that his statements against president barack obama, his criticism there has gone just a bit too far and his diplomatic actions against countries that voted for this security council resolution has gone too far and backing off just a little bit before the speech. don, what israel's concerned about is follow-up action perhaps no

oren lieberman is live with us. what's the latest?> reporter: prime minister benjamin netanyahu hasn't backed down at all of his criticism of president barack obama and the others. he hasn't apologized for the diplomatic actions he's taken. first netanyahu's accusations against the obama administration. he says obama was behind the u.n. security resolution, drafting it, writing it, pushing it. here is his spokesman david keys leveling that accusation again. >> we have ironclad from sources in the arab world and internationally and we're going to share that information with the incoming administration through the proper channels and if the new administration chooses to share that information, that's their prerogati prerogative. >> reporter: we have repeatedly pushed the israelis, both keys and other israelis on what that information is. we have yet to get an answer. yet it's an accusation they keep on repeating. as for diplomatic actions, he has limited working ties with the ambassadors and ministries that has little practical effect.

just now from oren lieberman in israel, an israeli official said quote, the u.s. administration, meaning the obama administration, secretly cooked up with the palestinians an extreme anti-israeli resolution behind israel's back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the western wall occupied palestinian territory. this again coming from an israeli official. ron? >> well, the one president at a time issue here is very pronounced. look, relations between netanyahu and democratic presidents are not good. it wasn't good under bill clinton, it's not good under barack obama. part of -- a big part of that is that the u.s. view of ultimately what security in the region for israel entails is different than the netanyahu view. it is much more tilted toward believing that ultimately there needs to be a two-state solution for lasting stability. donald trump has given every indication that he is going to defer much more to the netanyahu view of what it takes and is not going to pressure them to do really pretty much anything they don't want. so

cnn's oren lieberman joins us from jerusalem and elise labatt is in washington.esolution was expected to be voted on today. now it's been postponed. why? >> well, there's a lot of drama going on this morning. that vote was supposed to take place at 3:00 and we understand from several u.s. officials that the u.s. was really going to have a dramatic development either in abstention, not using its veto as it has in the past, or even voting yes. that vote was expected to pass. now, in addition, secretary of state john kerry was supposed to have a speech before that vote laying out the u.s. vision for the middle east peace process after all those months of efforts to try and get a peace deal unsuccessfully. now we understand that that vote has been on hold. western officials telling me that the egyptians who put forth the resolution have put it on hold because of pressure from the israelis. so now not only is that vote on hold, the kerry speech is on hold while the arab league meets this afternoon to review the text. there could be a new text, we don't know what that

cnn's oren lieberman is standing by in jerusalem. first, though to our correspondent elise labott with more on israel's response to that resolution. what are your sources telling you tonight? >> reporter: israel is cushing working ties with embassies and refusing to meet with ambassadors with countries that voted for the resolution. but he saved his strongest fury for the u.s. who he said led a shameful ambush. still fuming over friday's u.n. vote declaring israeli settlements illegal, prime minister benjamin netanyahu escalated his attacks against the obama administration. >> friends don't stake friends to the security council. >> reporter: summoning the u.s. ambassador and accusing president obama and secretary of state kerry of orchestrating what he called a shameful ambush at the u.n., telling his cabinet he has iron clad proof. >> translator: from the information that we have, we have no doubt that the obama administration initiated it, stood behind it, coordinated on the wording, and demanded that it be past. >> reporter: the w

colluding in a quote/unquote palestinian initiative intended to harm israel i have correspondent oren lieberman in jerusalem with reaction but elise labott, let me go to you first. you are in the weeds on this yes it passed. most significant that the u.s. abstained and to yoet you last hour, do you see in as a parting shot from the obama administration to prime minister benjamin netanyahu? >> that's right, brooke. and also to the settlement policy. president obama has long held that the settlements were an impediment to peace. you remember secretary of state john kerry trying to get a peace deal between israelis and palestinians, spent many months doing that and the settlements were issues that held up. for sam power, ambassador power, to say the u.s. wasn't supporting the resolution by abstaining i think -- look, by allowing the resolution to go through it's very significant and a rare -- not unprecedented but rare abandonment of israel at the united states at the united nations. the israelis clearly we've been hearing from the israelis and or ren will talk about that but they see this as an a

. >> our own cnn's oren lieberman joining us from jerusalem. do we have any more details about this evidence they may have? >> we tried. we pushed israeli officials in the u.s. and others here and they have yet to present any of this information or this evidence that they say they have that shows the u.s. was behind in any way this u.n. security council resolution. we'll keep pushing them, but they have yet to put forward that information. prime minister netanyahu said israel would not be abiding by this resolution and we're already seeing that. tomorrow at a jerusalem zoning committee meet, the city is set to advance plans for hundreds of new homes in east jerusalem. these were already on the agenda before the security council vote. that's exactly the point. this security council vote was supposed to stop the construction. jerusalem, the city and the deputy mayor saying they weren't going to stop building before and they're certainly not going to stop building now. netanyahu taking diplomatic action. on christmas day, he summoned the ambassado

want to bring in cnn's oren lieberman from jerusalem.srael is now voicing new concerns this morning. why don't you lay that out for us and tell us where we are going with this this morning? >> reporter: the new concern is that there could be another u.n. security council resolution, one that would try to lay out parameters or conditions for negotiation between israelis and palestinians, trying to move forward the process on discussion of some of the most sensitive complex issues, borders, how to look at jerusalem, palestinian refugees. israel is absolutely against this but fear it may happen ooi either in the next week or sometime in the first two weeks of 2017 when there is supposed to be an international peace conference in paris israel has said it will not attend. that resolution is israel's greatest concern right now. yet prime minister netanyahu very much not afraid to lash out at president barack obama and secretary of state john kerry. he blames them pretty much directly for this resolution saying he colluded on drafting it and ge

back with me now is cnn's oren lieberman in jerusalem, cnn's foreign affairs correspondent elise abbottnd cnn political analyst ron brownstein. elise, a lot of this comes back, when we look at the resolution that passed, we heard over and over again, i heard it from david key, the spokesman for netanyahu, last night, they have ironclad proof that the obama administration was behind this, that they orchestrated this, they cole luluded to get this resolution introduced and through. you have new information about what proof that is is even though they're not talking about it. >> the israelis are not being explicit about how they know this but i spoke to a senior israeli official a short time ago and they're sharpening the accusations against the united states. saying the obama administration led by his secretary and staff pushed the approval of the u.n. resolution and also basically saying they're hearing this from arab sources, that secretary kerry was what they're calling a covert partner in every detail of the resolution, right, so it's from its drafting to its conception to pushing it

. >> i wonder if you can help explain some language reported from oren lieberman, quoting a senior israeliicial who accused president obama and secretary kerry of being behind what he called this shameful move against israel at the united nations. you think president obama and secretary kerry are orchestrating this vote on settlements this afternoon? >> i don't know what you meant by orchestrating. >> he's saying they are behind this shameful move. >> i know in two or three hours my good friend ambassador samantha power will have to vote. she will get the order from the president, whether she will join countries like venezuela or angola or the palestinians bashing israel and the security council. this is the time we ask our friend to use veto power. when you have those power exactly for those moments when you need the stand by your ally and protect them at the security council. >> israel has been very consistent in calling on the united states to veto this, to exercise its veto power. you have been very consistent on that. that policy is clear. what is new is the statement from israeli off

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lieberman in jerusalem and elise labott in washington. a long time in jerusalem covering the relationship there. oren, he had a lot to say about the resolution. what is the prime minister of israel saying now? >> reporter: he's not backing off at all. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is doubling down in his criticism of president barack obama, the secretary of state kerry saying his response was responsible, measure pd and vigorous. not only that, netanyahu goes on to say there will be no long-term diplomatic fallout. in fact, he says quite the opposite. countries around the world will respect israel more because it shows it can stand up for itself. as for what we've seen, this is unparalleled criticism from netanyahu directed right at president barack obama calming it a "shameful move" irresponsible and not how friends treat friends. he hasn't backed down at all. christmas day he summoned not only the u.s. ambassador but ambassadors from ten other countries who voted for the resolution. the u.s. ambassador met directly with prime minister netanyahu when what we've seen as a continued criticism of p