[Council on Foreign Relations] Bernard Gwertzman - In an interview, Martin S. Indyk, Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, said: "The secretary of state, unlike the president, is very committed to trying to reach a final status agreement. It was her heavy lifting that got the powers to Annapolis in the first place....Each step of the way, she's had to bring the president along. She got him to commit to the international meeting....You get the sense that he'll turn up...but in terms of wanting to roll up his sleeves actively and get involved in the negotiations in order to achieve an agreement by the end of his administration, which is a goal that he has now embraced, I think that is questionable. You didn't get the sense in any of his words or his body language yesterday that there's a real commitment to that."
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