Crafty politics always gets its main support from people with short memories. The purpose of this book is to refresh people's memory and bring certain important and tragic events of modern history into accord with facts. The serious study that resulted in this book was inspired by a tour through the Holy Land countries, which brought intimate contact with the pitiable spectacle of a million or so Palestinian Arab refugees. These people, who were once independent, self-supporting and even prosperous, have been dispossessed of their lifetime homes and possessions, hopelessly forsaken in primitive and isolated camps, scattered around the periphery of their traditional land to which their return is forbidden. After talking with many of these refugees, it was only natural for an inquiring mind to ask: "How could this happen in our modern 'civilized' world?" Why do people in America and Europe know so little about this human calamity for which they are partially responsible?