(New York Times) Mark Landler - "Wisely, in my view, the administration is bending to reality," said Robert Malley, a peace negotiator in the Clinton administration. "The most likely scenario is that this moratorium was going to buy them a short reprieve, and was then going to plunge them into the same crisis they were in before." David Makovsky, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said, "It's the end of a phase for the administration: 'We're not focusing on the appetizers anymore; we're focusing on the main course.'"
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