With the Middle East in complete chaos and tumult, certain common objectives and sensitivities are falling off the radar. Only recently, when the Middle East was in question, headlines such as Palestine, Israel and Jerusalem would come to mind. The primary matter of concern for Western countries was protecting an occupying regime that the Arabs wanted to “destroy.” Zionist propaganda was successful in turning the historical legend of victimization, the massacre of Palestinians, and occupying their land into a strategy of legitimacy.