Arab propaganda has been successful in presenting a picture of the Palestinian people as the helpless and innocent victims of Israeli aggression -- potential friends of America who have been alienated by America's support for Israel (itself the result of a Jewish Lobby) and its failure to support a Palestinian national state. The fact that Palestinians are now being led by two terrorist organizations, Fatah and Hamas, is blamed on Israel and the United States' stubborn and irrational support for "the Zionist entity," rather than on the Palestinians who elected them as leaders.