<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5c2d44c2-4754-44ca-830a-366ab79ed9c4/18441BB7-917C-418E-8CF4-B83CBFD1400E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303128_pf.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303128_pf.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303128_pf.html"><P>A letter that <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline">President Bush</A> personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Ariel+Sharon?tid=informline">Ariel Sharon</A> four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president's efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last year in office.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303128_pf.html"><P><A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Ehud+Olmert?tid=informline">Ehud Olmert</A>, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter gave the Jewish state permission to expand the West Bank settlements that it hopes to retain in a final peace deal, even though Bush's peace plan officially calls for a freeze of Israeli settlements across Palestinian territories on the West Bank. In an interview this week, Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglas, said Secretary of State <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Condoleezza+Rice?tid=informline">Condoleezza Rice</A> reaffirmed this understanding in a secret agreement reached between <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/israel.html?nav=el">Israel</A> and the United States in the spring of 2005, just before Israel withdrew from Gaza.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/18441BB7-917C-418E-8CF4-B83CBFD1400E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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