Birth Quote by Mahmoud Abbas

This president's committed to taking steps to move the Middle East peace process forward, to bringing the two parties to the table to negotiate…

— Jay Carney

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

— Bill Richardson

Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign…

— Allen West

A comprehensive approach to a two-state solution is not just, we believe, in Israel's interest. It's in our interest.

— Joe Sestak

Obama wants to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the same thing we want.

— Haim Saban

I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved.

— Elliott Abrams

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin…

— Elliott Abrams

Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.

— Naftali Bennett

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will…

— Elie Wiesel

“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between…

— Reuven Rivlin

Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes…

— Ilan Pappe