British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised the speech delivered on Wednesday by US Secretary of State John Kerry for singling out the issue of Israeli settlements.

“A democratic Israel is only achievable through a two-state-solution,’’ declared German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as he took the defense of US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office has described US Secretary of State John Kerry's focus on Israeli settlements in his speech as obsessive, calling his comments ''biased.''

As a gesture of displeasure with Ukraine’s support for the resolution adopted last week by the UN Security Council on the settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to cancel a scheduled visit in Israel of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denied that he intends to cancel a meeting next month with British Prime Minister Theresa May as part of a retaliatory measure to the vote last Friday of a United Nations Security Council resolution against settlements, The Times of Israel reported.

Dutch opposition politician Geert Wilders criticized US president Barack Obama for not vetoing the UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements on Friday as he encouraged Israel to ignore the resolution and build ''more and more settlements.''

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro for talks, two days after Washington abstained rather using its veto during of a vote of a resolution in the UN Security Council calling for an end to Israeli settlement building.

The US didn’t veto a resolution whih was adopted in the United Nations Security Council condemns Israeli settlement activity as ‘’illegal’’, and demands that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the '’occupied'’ Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem".

Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations have called on the United States to “unequivocally affirm” that it would veto any one-sided condemnatory United Nations Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli issue if it is presented Thursday to the Council for a vote.