Discussion on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

And I think in a very rapid pace, I

realized that my job is actually to maintain an apartheid

system.

Very, uh, very early on, I understood that the rights that the

Jewish settlers have are not the rights

that the Palestinians have.

I understood that I cannot touch a Jewish settler if he is attacking a

Palestinian. The best I can do is call a local police department

to come handle it, like I would do at home in Jerusalem.

So these Jewish settlers that live in Hebron

are living under the same rights that

I live in, in Jerusalem. But the Palestinian next to them,

next house over,

next building over, sometimes next apartment over,

lives under my rule,

my military rule, and I can do whatever I want with him.

I can take his home as a temporary base

for a few hours to a few days to a few weeks.

I can decide that I'm arresting the people of the house and tying them up

to the fence of my base. Um,

if you will get an order to demolish their home or just lock their front door and

don't let them out into the street their house is on, a street

that only Jewish settlers can walk on and Palestinian cannot.

So they have to walk through windows to yards into the other side,

into the casbah of Hebron. I think realizing all of

that in a very, very early stage in my

service helped me understood that someone

was lying to me along the way. I didn't feel like I'm protecting anyone.

I didn't feel like I'm helping anyone feeling more-