In a September 2004 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President George W. Bush reassured Israelis that it was “unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.” The framework for a solution to the Palestinian refugee issue “will need to be found through the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the settling of Palestinian refugees there, rather than in Israel.”
在这一块，美国还扮演着一个重要角色。事实上，美国已经开始按要求行动了。2004年9月份，在一份给以色列总理阿里埃勒·沙龙的信中，美国总统乔治·W布什再次重申，“要期待巴以最后阶段谈判结果重新完全回到1949年停火线的状态是不现实的”。巴勒斯坦难民问题的解决方案框架“需要在建立巴勒斯坦国的过程中寻求，巴勒斯坦难民要安置在那里，而不是在以色列”。