PM’s office slams UN statement against settlements, says US shouldn’t have backed it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office condemns a statement backed by the UN Security Council that called Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank an “impediment” to peace with the Palestinians.

“The UN Security Council issued a one-sided statement that denies the rights of Jews to live in our historic homeland and ignores the Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem over the past month in which 10 Israeli civilians were murdered. [The statement] turns a blind eye to the fact that the Palestinian Authority subsidizes terrorism and pays the families of terrorists, and dwarfs the antisemitism that led to the murder of millions Jews,” the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office says.

It adds: “The statement should not have been made and the United States should not have joined it.