Washington, Rabi'II 13, 1438, January 11, 2017, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama, in an interview on Tuesday, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu policy backing settlements in occupied territory is making a future Palestinian state impossible. "Bibi says that he believes in the two-state solution and yet his actions consistently have shown that if he is getting pressured to approve more settlements he will do so regardless of what he says about the importance of the two-state solution," Obama said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname. Obama said that in the past few years both he and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had "countless times" personally appealed to Netanyahu to stop settlement activity, but that those pleas were ignored. --SPA 03:25 LOCAL TIME 00:25 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w310158