I hate to end the year on a bleak note, but it’s time we recognize that a third intifada, and perhaps the most violent of all, is just around the corner.

So many signs point to another round of Palestinian-initiated warfare on the Jewish state that it’s hard to ignore them.

As the Palestinians move toward national elections, it is clear that Hamas, the terror group that insists on the destruction of Israel, will do very well, whether it wins 30 or 40 percent of the seats in the parliament. That’s the main reason Mahmoud Abbas, the seemingly well-intentioned but weak president of the Palestinian Authority, has been stalling on the elections, first planned for last summer and now for Jan. 25, and subject to further delay. He wants to wait until his Fatah faction improves its standing, though he insists that after bringing Hamas into the political process, he will be able to convince the group to put away its guns in favor of democratic government.

Dream on. Whether Abbas is naïve or duplicitous, the results will be the same: more violence...