For the Obama administration, the entire effort on direct Israeli-Palestinian talks constitutes an enormous wasted opportunity and foreshadows a potential diplomatic and political embarrassment of considerable proportions.

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With slowing economic growth, a publicly feuding cabinet, and a series of corruption scandals that have paralyzed governance, you might think the last thing India needs is a foreign policy mishap. But there's no other way to characterize New Delhi's full-throated support for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's dangerous grandstanding at the United Nations in pursuit of statehood.

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

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

Negotiations with terrorist groups incentivize terrorism. Starting talks with a group like Hamas that has not first disavowed violence is an invitation to even more violence.

If Palestinians want an independent state, their new chairman must coalesce forces and disarm terrorists.

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