FDD
Two Years of Arab and Muslim Failure
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
October 7, 2025

…What Palestinians needed, before and after October 7, was an honest discussion about their options. The failure to establish a Palestinian state is not due to Israeli control over territory but stems from Palestinian inability to form a representative, reliable government that speaks for all of them and delivers on its commitments without shifting goals to suit populist narratives, as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has done since 1993. Friends of Palestinians – particularly in the Arab and Muslim world – have failed them. Instead of fostering pragmatic discussions about costs, consequences and governance, many have indulged in emotional rhetoric and populism, focusing on vilifying Israel’s response to October 7 while ignoring the barbaric actions that triggered the response and the Arab and Palestinian failure to force a Hamas surrender that would have ended the war on October 8. READ MORE

CAMERA David Litman: The Extraordinary Dishonesty of CNN’s “Gaza Famine” Coverage CNN’s October 2 feature on an alleged “famine” in Gaza (“How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized” by Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, and Henrik Pettersson, with contributions from Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem Khadder, and Eyad Kourdi) offers a case study in what happens when journalists let their storylines lead the facts instead of the other way around. The article’s central premise—that famine has taken hold in Gaza and that Israel is solely to blame—collapses upon examination of CNN’s own reporting.