These cities granted to Israeli control include TelAviv, Haifa and others.

These cities and the surrounding territory were primary populated by Arabs at the time, and nothing in the agreement suggested that the Arabs were required to leave the new Israeli state. But, in fact, the Arab were forced to leave and became refugees in their own land. Some left alestine by boat or on food, but many stayed, and today they and their descendants number !"",""" in #a$a alone. %any refugee camps still e&ists in the #a$a Strips and the 'est ban(.

In subsequent military operation the new State of Israel)always supported of *.S. financial of military aid)invaded and captured all of the alestinian territory not given to it in the artitian Agreement. Israel assumed control of the entire stste of asletine, e&cept for two separate chun(s of territory most densely populated by alestinian Arabs+ the 'est ban( and #a$a. These two isolated parcels and today the home of millions of Arabs alestinians.

But Israel didi not stop here, it effectively subdivided the 'est ban( into do$ens of gulags, or live+in prison camps by capturing and occupying all the ma,or roads and waterways within the 'est ban( and #a$a, and further, by establishing militari$ed squatter camp at all strategic road crossings. And sites having potential military value. These squatters- camps have been refurred to as settlements but the civilian inhabitants are actually squatters on the occupied, inhabited land. In fact, they avicted

the Arab residents by force.

As a result of their action, the maps of partitioned territory today resembles two chun(s of Swiss cheese, the holes being the settlements, with all surrounding roads and most of the internal roads designed as Israel territory. .ne /ewish commentator li(ened the set up to a house where the rooms belong to the alastinians, but the halls, windows and doors belong to the Israeli.

.ne intelligent question is as(ed over again and must be answered 0 'hy is America warring against one Islamic country after another1 Is it because %uslim and Arabs are subhuman as the Israelis claims, and as the American press sometimes subtly suggests1 .r is there an anti+Islamic agenda among our nation-s leaders that they do not share with us1 'ho can help but notice the common denominator in America-s serial wars2 %uslim are dying in almost every war.

%y hosts in #a$a were almosts are 3ristians who had long e&perience living and wor(ing among the %uslim. Some had themselves been %uslims. They wonder how it can be a coincidence that Afghanistan, Bosnia, 4osovo, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan are all Islamic countries, and they are all war victims of the *.S. 'hy, they as(, would the *.S government single out Islam for destruction1 There can be no understanding of why the *.S. supports war against the Islamic alestinians until we face this question.

5ortunately, the answer has been recorded and tested by the unforgiving standard of time.

.n arch 67, 788!, this author wrote the answer to that question in Attac(ing Islam, which was published in a nation maga$ine. That article is history and needs no additions or corrections to e&pose the truth today. The proof of its accuracy is that it can stand the light of scrutiny eight years later. 'e are quoting the entire article intact, changing nothing and leaving of only the historical introduction. The story is called 9 Attac(ing Islam,9 and it e&plains e&actly why the *.S. government is doing and why.

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The war situation in #a$a is another episode of a long series of war and vilence against the alestinian people since their collective e&pulsionfrom heir homes in 78!= create and establish the state of Israel to slove what the <ionist %ovement called the -/ewish roblem -. $ionis saw that solution for the persecution of /ews in :urope is to establish a /ewish homeland and a state later on, on alestinian land. This led to the e&pulsion of more than one million alestinians now dispersed are refugees from villages and cities now inside Israel and close to #a$a.

alestinian women in #a$a are devastated by all measures. All of what we see on T> screens is weeping womenover the coffins of their beloved children. 'omen in #a$a have no water, electricity, food, medicine, heat, fuel, or shelter since their beginning of the war on #a$a on ?ec 6@th. 'omen have to fetch water, wood, food and shelter for their families. %any women are seen digging through the rubble of their destroyed homes to loo( for their buried children. Two mothers were (illed and their young (ids were hanging to their body for four days with no food or water until the Aed 3ross reached teir home.

'hole families have been e&terminated by Israel artillery from air, sea and ground. The e&ample of the samouni family is ,ust one case. The samouni family wor( on their agriculture land at the outs(irts of #a$a+it is a big e&tended family. The Israel army as(ed the family to stay together in one house. %ore than 7B" gathered together, and once they were all settled in one house the army opened fire, (illing instantly C" people+mostly women and children.

Tens of house have been destroyed on their in habitant-s heads. %any families moved to empty schools run by the *; agency for the alestinian refugees D *;A'AE, but the Israel artillery followed them in their new refuge and (illed, in one e&ample !6 alestinians F again mostly women and children. This led the *;A'A director in #a$a to as( for an international investigation to the document so many war crimes commited against the civilians in #a$a.

%any women in #a$a have ris(ed their lives to save the besieged - targeted - groups in #a$a. 'omen, through their mass mobili$ation, managed to provide vital emergency services for women in #a$a, women are also active in the media and mass communication to ma(e their voices heard against this war.