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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.

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.

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

As the "5 plus 1" Group resumes negotiations with Iran today in Geneva, expectations remain low. If the bravado and propaganda should turn out to be mere theatrics meant to disguise the Iranian political leadership's readiness to accept the terms of the 5-plus-1 Group in Geneva, there is still little reason for enchantment.

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

In meeting with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas,Condoleezza Rice is looking for diplomatic successes in all the wrong places.

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