Daniel DePetris: Can Donald Trump help resolve the conflicts in the Middle East?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Everybody knows what the general parameters of that prospective deal look like: Hezbollah would withdraw about 20 miles north of the Israeli-Lebanese border; the Lebanese army and United Nations peacekeepers would redeploy to the south to ensure compliance; Israel would withdraw its own troops from Lebanon; and the cease-fire would be monitored by a coalition of international powers.
44% : Given his tendency to regard himself as the world's most successful negotiator, Trump probably thinks he can.
38% : On occasions, Trump talked about how the war in Gaza needed to end sooner rather than later and how the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue was, in his words, going to be "very, very tough" to implement.
38% : As it pertains to Gaza, Trump can forget about a deal anytime soon.
36% : But Trump wasn't shy on another issue that has far less resonance with the American electorate generally: peace in the Middle East.
35% : Trump, therefore, will reenter the White House in January with a Middle East mess he will have difficulty cleaning up.
29% : Meanwhile, another round of hostilities between Iran and Israel can't be discounted as Trump prepares to return to his old job.
17% : In his first term, Trump waited far too long before he released a plan for Middle East peace -- and when he did, the draft was riddled with so many deficiencies that the Palestinians threw it into the trash.

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