Hillary's Wrong: Bush, Israel Agreed on Settlements Sharon talks resulted in "understandings": Abrams By Matt Cantor Posted Jun 25, 2009 8:35 AM CDT Copied In this 2003 file photo from the "Red Sea Summit", President George W. Bush, center, is seen with Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Hillary Clinton said last week that the Bush administration hadn’t made any “informal or oral agreements” on Israel settlements, but that’s simply not true, writes Bush adviser Elliott Abrams in the Wall Street Journal. In fact, talks between the administration and Israel’s then-PM resulted in Ariel Sharon’s agreement to “remove some West Bank settlements”—at his own political expense. Sharon and Bush also agreed that there could be some “continuing growth,” though there would be “no construction of new settlements,” as Sharon said in a major speech in 2003. Both a letter to Condoleezza Rice and media reports documented agreements between the governments. Now, Abrams laments, President Obama “has decided to abandon the understandings”—“but we cannot rewrite history” and pretend they “did not exist.” Read These Next That 'buy now, pay later' loan may soon hit your credit score. Cops: Arizona 5th graders drew up plot to 'end' a classmate. The Bezos-Sanchez wedding: guest list, cost, the dress, and more. The DOJ just fired 3 prosecutors tied to Capitol riot criminal cases. Report an error