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passed through was burned
and destroyed. By these
means, some 400 Palestinian
villages were wiped off the
map in 1948 and 1949. The
property left behind by the
Palestinians was taken over
by the atheist Zionists by
virtue of the Absentee
Property Law. Until 1947,
Jewish land ownership in
Palestine was some 6%. By the
time the state was formally es-
tablished, it had 90% of the
land. The Palestinian Arabs
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were left with just two sepa-
rate areas, the Gaza Strip and
the West Bank.
As we have seen, although there was no reason why Jews and
Muslims should not live together in peace, atheist Zionists forced the
Palestinian people to abandon the lands they had lived on for hundreds

Most
Palestinians,
forced by Jews
off lands they
had lived for
thousands of
years, are still
struggling to
survive in
refugee camps.
The current num-
ber of those liv-
ing in such
camps totals
some 3.5 million.
These camps are
frequently sub-
jected to abuse,
oppression and
bombing by the
state of Israel.