WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United Nations has been unrelentingly hostile toward Israel and urged the United States to veto resolutions that aim to pressure Israel into a settlement with the Palestinians.

“Such an effort in the U.N. would only convince the Palestinians that they could stab their way to a state,” said Netanyahu, speaking from Jerusalem by video to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting in downtown Washington. “Mind you, not a state next to Israel but a state instead of Israel.”

Multiple efforts have been made over the years for the U.N. to recognize the establishment of a Palestinian state, but the United States has repeatedly blocked those attempts in the Security Council.