Palestinian refugees fared better than countless other 20th-century refugee populations

Evidence

Is it the conflict which has caused the most suffering? No, by no means. No one can fail to be deeply moved by the long drawn-out sufferings of the Pales­ tinian refugees. But in the awful arithmetic of the twentieth century, they are among the privileged of refugees as compared to the countless unrepresented, unsponsored, unsupported millions of others who have fled or been driven from their homes in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in Central America and elsewhere. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1599

Categorization

• QUESTION: Comparisons of suffering are ethically fraught — worth probing what ‘privileged of refugees’ actually means in living standards, representation, and aid terms.