Netanyahu to meet prime minister of Britain next week

PM Benjamin Netanyahu will be embarking on a short two-day trip to Britain on Sunday, where he is set to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May for the first time since she took office.

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May recently met with US President Donald Trump and her meeting with Netanyahu will signal a clear message about the formation of a strong alliance between the three nations.

Britain supported the UN Security Council's Resolution 2334 against Israeli settlements and even took an active part in forming its content behind the scenes. Despite the public anger which ensued in Israel directed against the nations that lent their signature to the resolution, Britain appeared to backtrack on its position by strongly condemning US Secretary of State John Kerry's statement that Israeli settlements represent the main obstacle to way of peace.

A spokesman for May said after the speech that it was clear that the settlements were far from the only problem in the conflict, adding that Kerry' assertion that the current Israeli government is the most right-wing it has ever been was inappropriate: "We do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically-elected government of an ally."

The spokesman also added that the British government held that negotiations could only succeed if peacefully held between the two sides with the support of the international community.

However, the British government, the spokesman continued, maintained that the only option for a sustainable peace in the Middle East is the two-state solution and that building in what it described as occupied Palestinian lands is illegal, and therefore defended its support of Resolution 2334.

"Citizens of Israel should live without fear of terrorism, which they have lived with for many years now," the spokesman added.

Netanyahu is also scheduled to meet President Trump on February 15, and to set out days later to a weeklong diplomatic trip to Singapore and Australia.