TV chef Anthony Bourdain's September 15th, 2013, episode of his international cuisine series was supposed to be about Jerusalem, but instead it was taken over by Palestinian grievance theater. 
Recent upheaval in the Middle East has undermined the long-held dogma holding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict responsible for the region's instability. Years of preoccupation with the Palestinians has left the media with a lot of catching up to do. 
5 Towns Jewish Times of Nassau County, Long Island, published a JNS/CAMERA Op-Ed exposing biased educational materials used to teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an upscale Boston suburb. 
Op-Ed in The Jewish Advocate describes the continuing problem of inaccurate and biased educational materials used to teach students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Newton high schools. 
Adam Shatz cheerleads for Hamas in his recent piece in The London Review of Books. Israel is blamed for the November flare up and Hamas is adjudged the victor. 
The Palestinians undermined the peace process by rejecting negotiations and going to the UN for statehood affirmation. Israel then announced plans to build in area E-1. NPR found fault only with Israel. 
Alarm over reports that the Syrian regime is preparing to use chemical weapons offers an opportunity to provide some clarity about what lies at the core of the Middle East's instability.