Israeli novelist Amos Oz depicts Israeli society as “a group of semi-hysterical refugees.” But for Israelis, the word “refugee” today corresponds literally to an existential threat.

Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons in Israel are one of the largest displaced populations in the world today. Approximately one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), thirty-four thousand Palestinians lived in Iraq before the American invasion in 2003.

All conflicts are mired in controversy and none more so than the Israeli Palestinian. Israel, in order to justify the conquest of Palestine and the expulsion of its people and further portray itself as a bastion of democracy and  the frontier of Western civilization who is engaged in an existential conflict against extremism, used the most effective propaganda imaginable. Its unparalleled propaganda machine resorted to criminal fabrication and resorted to Orwellian 'doublespeak' to change victims to oppressors and oppressors to victims. As a consequence, the greatest victim in this conflict has been truth, knowing which will greatly improve our qest for peace and justice.