When you conduct a search in a Palestinian's home – it's not that you need a court order. You need to want to do it, and then you do it. It's not like with an Israeli citizen, that if a policeman wants to enter your home, he either needs a well-founded suspicion that you're committing a crime, or for someone to be in danger, or a court order stating that he has a warrant to search and get evidence. In Hebron, if you're a Palestinian, I'll enter your house whenever I feel like it, and search for whatever I want and I'll turn your house upside down if I want to. It's the same when you want to – I don't know, a foot patrol – and you want to rest on someone's roof and scout the area. Or, say, every time we stop vehicles at Abu Sneineh which is the neighborhood adjacent to the Jewish neighborhood there, you always put a soldier or two on the roof to scout and see who's arriving from far off, who's throwing stones, where from, and stuff like that. You simply open up their [the Palestinians] home, tell them 'get out of the way, we’re going up to your roof to scout.' You already know that they'll shout and object, [and] you know that it doesn’t matter, because you're going to go up to the roof.

What do you do when they start to shout and object? You shout louder and they get it. I mean, they're not idiots, most of them. They know you'll arrest them or you'll hit them, and in the end, you'll get on the roof. They won't stop you from going up to the roof.

They understand who has the power. Yes. Listen, that's what really screws you up in Hebron. When you leave, everything just continues. It's not that it's a few months and then it ends, it's really people’s lives. As we speak, right now – if anyone were to hear this in the future – it's still happening. I hope it won't happen in the future. These things that I'm telling, they're happening right now. Right now, there's a soldier on a roof who argued with the owner of the house, and eventually got on the roof. Many times, it’s, say, a woman who stayed at home, a housewife, and she's scared to death because of the soldiers entering without her having anyone with her, and they go up through the house anyway. Wow, I actually never thought about how frightening it must be for these housewives. So in short, you simply enter the house and they have no… There isn't even any discourse of, like, rights. To have rights, you need a system that enforces law and order, and over there nobody even acknowledges them. The things that we completely take for granted. Like, any person would demand some kind of basic respect from a policeman. The privilege of being innocent until proven guilty – this isn’t even part of the lexicon there. It's so far from it. It’s light years away from the discourse there of... Really, like I said, whoever commands that mission at the moment is the village sheriff. He’ll do whatever he wants.