Bush, Israel and the Right of Return

President Bush wrote in his April 2004 letter that "a solution to the Palestinian refugee issue … will need to be found… through… the settling of Palestinian refugees [in a Palestinian state], rather than in Israel."

But in his spoken speech he said, loudly and clearly, "not in Israel" - signifying exclusion and not preference. Similarly, one of the original three stipulations of the Road Map, demanded from the Palestinians, is the dismantling of the terror infrastructure, and not - as in the much-watered-down version, recently often used even by our representatives - the renunciation of terror.