that we have to renew our identity documents our permits and if we didn't they would expire and we would lose our right to return to our home our every member i have associate with that trip was was one of our sort of misery and the thing with a policy or practice that stands out the  t in my mind was this one of strip searching i am a palestinian american attorney i live in portland oregon we were separated and i was asked to go with a uniformed officer and she asked me to undress and i must have hesitated because she asked me again and having grown up in a christian family announcer as i was quite modest she took off my car i helped to take out my plans and didn't really say much of anything and she had me turn around and she felt my legs my behind so there i was as a ten year old in this little room just about completely naked and knew that i could not challenge what was happening and i just complied with it just feels sitting here as an adult but as a child i really shouldn't have to go pantyhose back on i remember i was about maybe twelve and you know feeling uncomfortable having to remove my shirt and more of my undershirt because she had said you can't keep your undershirt on you have to   search and i said why are you doing this because you are a terrorist because you are a security risk i have never in my whole life been so we're angry but i've never been this was something done purely to humiliate and for no other p i think that was part of the policy was intentional it was meant to make palestinians detest going back each and us palestinians on us and don't come back but it's intimidation and that's what they tried to good said if we don't we poured back what we really see but only if they don't want the united states or the world to know then don't do it while i am in the us i called my friends in power and the first thing i said until i'm as i'm never coming back i haven't been back home since i was ten years old one of the reasons it is difficult for me to think about going back home to answer is that to be placed in the same position i was innocent ten year not be able to do anything about it is too much for me there are these magazines in the back seat on every page in every one of these magazines and in the magazine say a word in my friends with city i wrote i'm a who you never ever come back to israel that's what they want they want us to get to the point where we don't go back occupation is a fluid term that can be easily manipulated by the powerful an occupying powers when the occupied is portrayed as by land and the occupier is victim then democracy and justice have to be redefined if the international community cannot stop israel's apartheid wall and the destruction of people on their livelihood then humanity is at stake in june two thousand and while the international community is pushing for and install democracies throughout the middle east israel decide reinforce its occupation by encircling the west bank in palestinian towns with a separation barrier that is meant to choke the palestinian population and drive them from their livelihood compared to the ninety six mile eleven point eight feet high berlin wall that was destroyed in one thousand nine hundred nine the israel separation wall extends more than four hundred  eighty miles and reaches between six and twenty four feet high it consists of solid concrete in some areas and a fellow the meter complex of trenches six to eight feet deep barbed wires electronic surveillance fences and the track in other areas the wall which swallows more than forty two percent of the west bank is in most areas not all on or near the nineteen sixty seven green line that divides palestine from israel its makes its path as deep as ten miles inside the west bank and encircle cities like two entirely trapping all in its path and separating palestinians from their families whose land and water and livelihoods numerous villages have already been confiscated two hundred the thousand people separated thirty five sliced from multiple directions massive land grab in most fertile areas and expulsion from areas around ramallah city have occurred more than twenty two villages have been affected and entire communities have been imprisoned in palestinians the whole population now lives in ghettos with freedom of movement restricted to those who possess hard to obtain passes from the occupying power several neighborhoods have been entirely cut off and farmers now require promenades to go to their fields intimidation by israeli soldiers and settlers is becoming a daily reality for everybody and a simple trip to stall or hospital is becoming a risky adventure and ordeal immediately after its occupation of the west bank and gaza strip in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israel took control of all water resources and prohibited palestinians from water development and drilling the required