There’s a famous quote among newspaper editors: “If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, that’s news.” It is the unusual or controversial nature of a story that makes it newsworthy. From this vantage point, one might ask why the State of Israel, whose size and population are roughly equivalent to those of New Jersey, has been the subject of so many newspaper headlines around the globe. It seems it is the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel,