[You see] people who if you open your eyes and heart a little bit, you’ll see human beings who are like us, with a few differences. It didn’t surprise me because I knew it before, but I talked loads with the detainees. I met a person who was a chef, and I spoke to him about the dishes he liked making most. I talked to a person who told me he was a communist, we talked about that. I met a guy who was almost finishing a Masters degree about antisemitism and islamophobia. Loads of different people. But to see a 14-year-old kid who you know that as soon as he ends up detained, he most likely won’t be able to work inside Israel, won’t be able to make a living. He’ll either work some job that pays 1,800 shekels a month, or he’ll be a terrorist. Those are the places he can get to. It’s really sad. But you’re inside a system, you do the same thing every day, you get used to it and you stop asking yourself whether what I’m doing is right. It sucks because now that I’m talking to you, I'm reminded of things that happened. Like, now that you ask me, what, a 14-year-old kid can’t see his mother? Like, to me it’s obvious that he can’t. But it’s people, it’s a 14-year-old boy and a mother or father who don’t know that a foreign country, its military has taken your (their) child. It’s part of the occupation, no two ways about it.
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