History hasn't changed, and readers today deserve no less than readers in 2013 and 2017.
But for emphasis: Here's Seymour Maxwell Finger, described in a NYT obituary as "a recognized authority on foreign affairs," noting in 1983 the Reagan position that settlements are "not illegal."
(Maynes was an assistant secretary of state under Carter and later editor of @ForeignPolicy mag.)
Here is George Shultz in 1984, reiterating his administration's position that settlements are not illegal.