'America's close ally, Israel, has launched the largest military excursion in the West Bank in nearly two decades. And a decades-long, bipartisan United States policy failure is partially to blame.' -Sean Durns
PA President Mahmoud Abbas, head of its ruling Fatah movement, is deeply unpopular. The eighty-six-year-old Abbas is notoriously corrupt and has refused to hold elections since 2006. Increasingly autocratic, he has both imprisoned and exiled critics. The Palestine Legislative Council, the PA’s legislature, hasn’t met for nearly two decades. Abbas’s security forces and intelligence services have been accused of torture and human rights abuses.of key towns has been slipping.
Iran covets the West Bank, hoping to turn it into another front to launch attacks into Israel. The high hills and strategic ground of the West Bank provide the Islamic Republic with greater reach into Israel — for both missile and terrorist attacks. Iran is turning the West Bank into an outpost for terrorism thanks, in part, to U.S. neglect.
Indeed, Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has announced that it’s taking part in the fighting in Jenin. And Abbas himself has condemned the IDF forces taking part in the counterterrorist operation as"another war crime."
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