Nikki Haley Quotes

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

I think the U.S. leaders should do more to support our Israeli allies and the Palestinians to find peace.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.

I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

I don't think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.