Kerry, pushing back on Israel‘s fury at the U.S. abstention of the United Nations vote, questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s true commitment to Palestinian statehood, which has formed the basis for all serious peace talks for years. Though Netanyahu says he believes in the two-state solution, Kerry said, he‘s at the helm of the most right-wing government in Israel‘s history.

“If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic; it cannot be both, and it won‘t ever really be at peace,” Kerry said.