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 a few important, but underreported, stories bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know this week.
1) Former Senior Arafat Advisor Said Oslo Accords Were a Deception
Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the Oslo Accords 33 years ago this month. In a Sept. 15, 2026, interview with a Hamas website, Bassam Abu Sharif, former advisor to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, made some bombshell revelations about the former Palestinian leader’s position on those accords, suggesting the Oslo Accords were a deception on Arafat’s part.
Middle East Middle Research Institute (MEMRI) reviewed the interview and wrote that:
Sharif stated . . . Arafat did not view the Oslo Accords as a move leading to the end of the conflict, but rather as a means of returning to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in order to turn them into a “jungle of rifles” to preserve the option of resistance and subsequently advance the “liberation plan.” Abu Sharif added that, once [Arafat] had come to the conclusion that the political track was not advancing his goals, Arafat resumed the “popular resistance” (i.e. launched the Second Intifada), which included deadly armed attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.
Abu Sharif further described Arafat as having been dragged into secret Israeli-PLO Oslo negotiations in the early 1990s as a “deception and political trap” by associates including current Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. According to Abu Sharif, Arafat entered into the Oslo Accords with a wholly different mindset than the group leading the political track. While Arafat’s objective was to use the Palestinian Authority to strengthen Palestinian power, according to Abu Sharif, Arafat purportedly only belatedly understood that the agreement he had had become a constraint and wanted to “extricate himself from it and rebuild the means of confronting the occupation.”
MEMRI notes that Abu Sharif has extreme positions against Israel and supports armed resistance. He was one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. MEMRI further notes that over the years, other Palestinian officials, including Yasser Arafat, described the Oslo Accords as a means of advancing the ultimate objective of establishing a Palestinian state that would replace the State of Israel.
2) Parody Account on Social Media Platform X Dupes Gaza Photojournalist
“Rabbi Linda Goldstein,” a parody account on the social media platform X representing the fictional “Chief Rabbi of Gaza,” has struck again. Famous for tricking and exposing anti-Israel personalities, “she” (the account is actually run by a man) has previously duped American politicians like Michael Blake (who primaried Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-NY), Imani Oakley, who ran for Congress five years ago, former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and former Rep. Cori Bush.
This week, Rabbi Linda duped a Gazan photojournalist named Sameh Ahmed. Rabbi Linda messaged Ahmed on X to ask how she and Ahmed could together “create films and scene [sic] to turn the west away from the Satan Israel.” Ahmed responded with ideas for documentary films or high-quality short films and Rabbi Linda offered to get funding and find children with cerebral palsy who look malnourished.
Rabbi Linda then said she had a makeup artist from Hollywood who would be in Palestine next week and offered to meet Ahmed’s “people” to donate special effects supplies and teach them makeup. Ahmed first said that was “good work,” but when Rabbi Linda explained that the makeup artist was a “they/them,” sometimes identifying as a man and sometimes as a woman, Ahmed said he could not meet them.
3/3 Then we finally agreed to meet my special effects expert, but after finding out it’s a they/them, he REFUSED to meet 😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/MjTOEsEnFG
— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) September 22, 2026