Barack Obama: “I understood the Prime Minister's decision to return immediately to Israel to deal with today's events.”

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.