'Occupation' and Defensibility
As predicted earlier this week, President Bush -- formerly (and arguably) the strongest supporter of Israel to inhabit the White House in years -- used his address at today's Annapolis Conference on Palestinian Statehood to renege on his 2004 promise of "defensible borders" to the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and to demand that the Jewish state retreat to its pre-1967 borders as a show of good faith in its peace negotiations with the Palestinian government.
Three years ago, Bush wrote to Sharon that "as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders." He continued:
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