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UK Issues Unprecedented Rebuke of Secretary of State John Kerry after His Attack on the Make-Up of the Democratically-Elected Israeli Government
(Daily Mail-UK) Matt Dathan - The UK government on Thursday launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S. over John Kerry's condemnation of the Israeli government as the "most right-wing in history." A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said it was inappropriate of Kerry, America's top diplomat, to attack the make-up of the democratically-elected Israeli government - a key ally of both the U.S. and Britain. Downing Street also rebuked Kerry for focusing on the single issue of Israeli settlements and not the whole conflict. "We do not...believe that the way to negotiate peace is by focusing on only one issue, in this case the construction of settlements, when clearly the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is so deeply complex. And we do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically-elected government of an ally."