America's commitments were given in a letter from President George Bush to then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dated 14 April 2004 to:
- encourage Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza and part of the West Bank and
- give the Bush-Quartet Roadmap ("Roadmap") every chance of ending a conflict that had raged unresolved for about 85 years.
Bush's commitments included:
1. Preventing any attempt by anyone to impose any plan other than the Roadmap.
2. Acknowledging that Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between Israel and the PLO in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.
3. Agreeing in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, that it was unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations would be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.
These commitments were overwhelmingly endorsed by the Congress by 502 votes 12.
President Obama actively attempted to subvert these commitments during his eight years in office - culminating in Obama's failure to veto Resolution 2334 in the dying days of his Presidency-which trashed the above commitments and made them meaningless..."
