(Washington Times) Clifford D. May - Israeli troops battled the Islamic Republic of Iran's foreign legions in the northern West Bank earlier this month. Tehran is adept at using proxies to fight its wars: Hizbullah in Lebanon, Shia militias in Iraq, Houthi rebels in Yemen. Recently, both Islamic Jihad - a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - and Hamas - the designated terrorist entity that rules Gaza which also receives arms, money and instruction from Iran - have been increasing their presence in the West Bank, a territory that, under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is responsible to govern. Two days of intense fighting took place in Jenin's "refugee camp." Do you not find it odd that Palestinians living on Palestinian territory under the Palestinian Authority are called refugees? After Israel's founding, nearly a million Jews were forced to flee from Arab countries where they had lived for centuries. Their descendants do not call themselves refugees and demand a "right of return." The writer is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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