So — who had the Russians bombing Syria and the Palestinians voiding all deals with Israel in the pool on Tuesday night before going to bed?

“News,” a coinage of the late Middle Ages, is a shortened version of the phrase “new things.” And these two pieces of news genuinely define the word. They’re events that hadn’t happened before and immediately changed what will happen going forward.

What’s amazing is that they came as a surprise, since both have been foreshadowed for weeks in the case of Russia and a couple of years in the case of the Palestinian Authority. And yet they did.

Presidential candidate Marco Rubio literally predicted the former during the Sept. 16 GOP debate.

“Here’s what you’re going to see in the next few weeks,” Rubio said. “The Russians will begin to fly combat missions in that region, not just targeting ISIS, but in order to prop up Assad.”

Read the article “Marco Rubio Predicted Russian Air Strikes in Syria” on nypost.com.