Jimmy Carter harangued America’s friends on human rights and other issues to little effect. Biden is in danger of repeating the mistakes, and the Palestinians would be the biggest losers.

Having grown disenchanted with Henry Kissinger’s incremental approach to Arab-Israeli negotiations, Carter tried for a comprehensive peace with all of Israel’s neighbors. Rather than slog toward a settlement with the Palestinians, Soviets, and Syrians, leaders in Egypt and Israel sidestepped the White House peace effort and pursued a bilateral agreement. Egypt got the Sinai, Israel got peace, Carter got a photo-op for hosting the final round of talks, and the Palestinians got nothing.

The rogue Palestinian leadership has long irked their fellow Arabs and hurt any chance for diplomacy. If Biden wanted to help stabilize the broader Middle East, he’d realize his noxious Iran policy — like the catastrophic Afghanistan pullout two years ago — makes the region more unstable.