Why break the silence? Why did you decide to tell us and speak to us here and why do you think it’s important?First of all, most of our conversation, it’s clear to me that, in a tour I was on [with Breaking the Silence], many things that I thought about in a certain way and [which] I did like a robot for three years, suddenly seem really strange to me. A situation that in the eyes of soldiers seems really valid, as outsiders looking at it you understand that it’s not valid and it’s really also something that doesn’t get out [to the general public]. I told my parents things and they were shocked. But beyond that, I’m sure every parent of a combat soldier maybe can say a thing or two but this full picture that soldiers understand or people in the [occupied] territories understand, [that] no one really understands fully. That’s also important.
Why is it important for you that [people] know?Because the people are stupid. The people don’t really know what’s happening and the people manage to repress [it]. People really do decide later who to vote for based on incorrect knowledge. When my friends suddenly vote for Bennett or Lieberman or the Likud – it doesn't matter – many times they’re voting for right-wing parties because the occupation is totally fine and these lefties are trying to present something untrue and there really is no occupation. So like a lot of times it’s like that and what’s really happening has to be shown.