While the new American positions do not represent a revolutionary change in US policy, they do represent a clear procedural and indeed substantive departure from previous American positions, particularly those of the Clinton administration. The so-called "Clinton Parameters," which were presented just before the end of Clinton's second term, sought to preclude Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied territories by conditioning any border changes on "territorial swaps and other arrangements."
尽管美国的最新立场并不代表美国政策发生了革命性变化，但确实与美国以前的立场，特别是克林顿政府立场有了程序和内容上的本质不同。克林顿连任结束前刚刚提出的所谓"克林顿限制因素"试图阻止以色列吞并被占领土，为一切"领土交换和其它领土变化"规定了前提。