"Above all, let me reiterate, the refugee problem was caused by attacks by Jewish forces on Arab villages and towns and by the inhabitants' fear of such attacks, compounded by expulsions, atrocities, and rumors of atrocities, and by the crucial Israeli Cabinet decision in June 1948 to bar a refugee return." (Benny Morris, "Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus of 1948", pp. 37-59 in "The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948", E. L. Rogan and A. Schlaim (eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2001)
This picture shows a military supervised (arrow on soldier and man taking picture) ethnic cleansing.
"In Palestine we do not propose to go through the form of consulting the wishesof the present inhabitants.... Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land." Lord Balfour in a memorandum to Lord Curzon, his successor at the Foreign Office on 11 August 1919
This picture shows a brief reunion after 50 years between a brother and his sister. When Israel withdrew quickly from South Lebanon in 1998 these meetings were possible but only for one day until Israel quickly sealed the border again
"We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we have to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed...we justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them” Nathan Chofshi, Jewish Newsletter, New York, 9 February 1959, cited in Erskine Childers, 'The Other Exodus' in Spectator, London, 12 May 1961
The Wall/separation barrier merely makes concrete such"facts on the ground" more accurately Jewish-only colonies control of land and natural resources. In building teh wall, billlions of US tax money is used to destroy hundreds of thousands of lives(human and other). 300,000 olive and other trees uprootedjust for the wall. These ones are over 2000 years old 
The right to education is constantly violatedFreedom of movement to attend schools is curtailed
Faris Odeh, 13 y.o, one of 800 childrenkilled by the Israeli Occupation Forcesin the last four years
Israeli soldiers posing for photos with a murderedPalestinian resistance fight
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