Barack Obama Quotes

The Palestinian issue is a national, political issue. It's not to be seen as an economic issue that would be solved or addressed by some economic approach that makes the living standard of the people under occupation better. The Palestinian people are fed up with talks that have been going on for years. We are looking for peace, but we are not looking for a new peace process. This process will fail.

The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

Israel, Palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with hatred, they're taught hatred.

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part of a two-state solution.

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses.

I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.