Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.
Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.
Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories from the week bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know.
1) A Growing Rocket Threat in the West Bank
The rocket arsenals of terror groups in Gaza and Lebanon have been a persistent and even existential threat for Israel for decades. Disturbingly, there are now growing signs of a determined effort by West Bank terror groups to build up their own rocket arsenals.
Rockets found in the West Bank in September, 2025. Courtesy: IDF
In mid-September, a rocket was launched from the Palestinian town of Kfar Ni’ma. Indiscriminate in nature, the rocket landed in the Palestinian village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, which sits along a major highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Counterterror operations subsequently located more rockets in Kfar Ni’ma as well as rocket manufacturing equipment. A little over a week later, another rocket was located in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm. Israeli officials assessed that “foreign elements, led by Iran, are working to promote a plan for rocket fire from the West Bank.” According to Joe Truzman, a Senior Research Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “Iran’s backing of terrorist groups in the West Bank is neither new nor subtle, but in recent years, that support has deepened.”
So why does this matter so much? Although both Hamas and Hezbollah had long-range rockets, their arsenals mainly threatened southern and northern Israel, respectively. But given the West Bank’s location, an emerging rocket threat there would threaten Israel’s major population centers in central Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The issue ties into the recent rush by Western leaders to recognize a “State of Palestine” run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which has occurred as the latter continues to struggle to govern those areas of the West Bank in which it has been given autonomy. The PA has found itself entirely incapable of operating in Palestinian towns, which have been overrun by terrorist organizations, except with the help of Israeli security forces. The wave of foreign recognitions has glossed over this reality. Emmanuel Macron, for example, even falsely claimed on CBS News that “[t]here is no Hamas in West Bank,” demonstrating a profound ignorance of the reality on the ground.
That ignorance is perhaps born of the media’s failure to cover these events. With the exception of the Free Beacon, no major Western outlets covered these developments.
2) American Muslims for Palestine in Contempt of Court
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) claims to be a grassroots organization which seeks to “mobilize the Muslim-American community…to advance Palestinian rights.” Unfortunately, many AMP leaders conflate “advancing Palestinian rights” with promoting blatant antisemitism and expressing support for terrorism.
But even more alarming are the apparent connections between AMP and the designated terrorist organization Hamas. On this topic, the research of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Jonathan Schanzer and that of the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism is invaluable. Court documents for a lawsuit against AMP, filed by the parents of an American teenager killed in a Palestinian terror attack, also shed light on these connections. In short, after several organizations, including the Holy Land Foundation, were shut down two decades ago over their financial support for Hamas, several members of these Hamas-linked organizations reorganized as AMP, raising concerns that they may be continuing such unlawful activities under the new name.
In October 2023, Virginia’s attorney general opened an investigation into AMP, stating that the organization “may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations.” Two years later it seems that AMP has something to hide. After months of delays and refusals, AMP was ordered by a state court on June 13, 2025 to fully comply with the attorney general’s demand to turn over requested documents and information. AMP has still refused to comply and, consequently, has now been found in civil contempt of court. In addition to having to pay attorney fees for the state, AMP will be fined $1,000 per day until it complies with the court’s order.
Only the Jewish News Syndicate has covered this story.
3) The Threat of a (Larger) Turkish Invasion in Syria Grows
In a story left underreported for nearly a decade now, Turkey has effectively exercised control over Syrian territory bordering the former, amounting to approximately 15% of Syria’s land. There, Turkey has led an effort that some have described as ethnic cleansing. Syrian Kurds were driven out of their homes and replaced by Arabs.
Now, there appears to be an imminent expansion of Turkey’s campaign against Syrian Kurdish groups. Turkey has been threatening to attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – a Kurdish-dominated and U.S.-supported force that largely controls northeastern Syria – unless it integrates into the Syrian government by December 31. The SDF has resisted doing so thus far, in large part due to the fact that the Syrian government, which is itself a product of Turkish support, is dominated by the same Islamist forces that the SDF was meant to combat. The SDF is not alone; Syria’s Druze population has also resisted integration – resistance which has only grown more fierce following the massacre of Druze civilians by government forces earlier this year (a massacre which only ceased once Israeli forces intervened to protect the Druze).
The overt external interference into Syrian affairs was made even more blatant in July when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan said: “We [the Turkish government] did not consent to the fragmentation of Syria yesterday, and we will certainly not consent to it today or tomorrow.” Once again, on October 1, Erdogan promised to “preserve Syria’s territorial integrity,” a “euphemism for military action against the Kurdish-dominated SDF,” according to the Institute for the Study of War.
The threat goes beyond that to the Kurdish people. According to FDD’s Ahmad Sharawi, “[t]he SDF still holds thousands of Islamic State fighters in prisons and camps, and any chaos could trigger mass escapes and a resurgence of violence.”
While Western media outlets remain obsessive in their coverage of conflicts involving Israel, only Reuters has covered Erdogan’s threats against the SDF in recent weeks.
Historical Context for Current Events
Greta Thunberg’s latest flotilla stunt came to an end this week when it was peacefully intercepted on October 1 by Israeli forces. Although operating under the guise of bringing aid to Gaza, it has emerged that the flotilla didn’t actually carry much aid. This perhaps explains, in part, why the flotilla organizers refused offers by Italy, Greece, and the Vatican to deliver the aid through proper channels.
So what was the purpose of the flotilla if it didn’t bring much aid? Clues can be found in the recent revelation that Hamas secretly owned dozens of the flotilla’s ships. Of course, the terror group’s connection to the flotilla was already public knowledge, however, given the involvement of Hamas’s Zaher Birawi.
This isn’t the first time Hamas was behind such an “aid” flotilla. In 2010, another flotilla – which included the infamous Mavi Marmara – was organized by Insan Hak ve Hurriyetleri Vakfi (IHH), a Turkish Islamist group that had been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization due to its provision of material, financial, and propaganda support for Hamas. IHH was also a member of the Union of the Good, which was designated by the U.S. as “an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist organization.”
As CAMERA wrote in March:
IHH and Hamas’s collaboration in such efforts was well known. IHH had even established an office in Gaza, headed by a man named Muhammad Kaya, who held meetings with senior Hamas officials about providing aid to the terrorist organization and continuing to send flotillas and convoys. So close were IHH and Hamas that Kaya’s son, Matin, was married to [senior Hamas terrorist] Ahmed Yousef’s…daughter…
Returning to the question of the purpose of the current flotilla, one need only take the organizers at their word: to “break the siege.” The “siege” they are referring to is the lawful maritime blockade Israel imposed in January 2009 in order to stem the flow of military supplies to Hamas, which by then had already fired over 5,000 rockets and mortar bombs toward Israel.
In other words, the flotillas serve Hamas’s goals by putting pressure on Israel’s efforts to halt the trafficking of arms to the terrorist organization.