Israelis battled Palestinians in the northern West Bank last week. That’s what most media reported and it’s true as far as it goes. But here’s a more accurate description of reality: Israeli troops battled the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign legions in the northern West Bank last week. …

Regarding the Jenin operation, Mr. Guterres on Thursday accused the Israelis of “violence against civilians” – providing no evidence that civilians were unintentionally harmed by the Israel Defense Forces while ignoring massive evidence that Islamic Jihad and Hamas intentionally kill Israeli civilians whenever they can.

Shouldn’t international civil servants and independent journalists be embarrassed to side with Iran’s rulers – even as those rulers sponsor terrorism abroad, run an illicit nuclear weapons program, and brutalize their own subjects, not least women?

[They have never shown any shame at that in the past. I doubt that they’re feeling much shame about it now, too. This has been the case for decades, especially in relation to Hezbollah and their attempts to start shooting wars between Israel and Lebanon so as to inflame global public opinion against Israel. This shadow war has gone on since the radical-Islamist 1979 revolution in Iran, and won’t end until a counter-revolution chases the ayatollahs out of power. — Ed]