Despite the survival of Mahmoud Abbas and many of his supporters, the Palestinian situation still looks bleak.

White House faith in Mahmoud Abbas is misplaced, and its support will backfire.

The new president will need to decide whether democracy in the process is more important than democracy as the final result. How should the United States react if, as the new regimes rewrite their constitutions, they turn from democracy toward theocracy? (INCLUDES VIDEO)

The US and EU support for Abbas's referendum will do more to prevent peace than achieve it.

Can anything be done to brake accelerating Palestinian violence? The answer isn"t as complicated as many suggest.

Hamas's misconduct means more foreign aid for the Palestinian Authority--why wouldn't it try to provoke a war with Israel?

Netanyahu supporters are a decisive majority of the American public, stretching far beyond the confines of one faith, they can reshape the domestic American debate on Israel and the region. This is critical, since, thanks to Obama, U.S.-Israeli relations are more politically strained than ever before, a public division inevitably providing our adversaries with dangerous opportunities for trouble-making.

With dictators and autocrats, struggling democrats, vicious terrorists, petrodollars, and a possible regional arms race, the Middle East presents a series of unique challenges for the next administration. Regional democracy promotion, once viewed as the best approach for alleviating the appeal of terrorist ideologies, has lost traction. Iran continues its...