There was a really long discussion about what we do with Jews who are really violent towards Palestinians. To me it was really clear that no one talked about shooting, and no one talked about being in a situation where we really hurt Jews, but they said we had to be very very sharp. It’s obviously a complex situation. We have to be very sharp, but at the same time, we can’t really hurt a Jew.

What do you mean, hurt?To use military force, whether it’s weapons, gas, stuff like that. We couldn’t really use [it].

And arrests?I think arresting Jews is like detaining them for a tiny bit, not handcuffing them like you handcuff Palestinians, and like, blindfolding them. It’s holding them with us until people who have more authority than us to deal with the situation arrive.

So you didn’t have authorization to arrest settlers, in the sense of making an arrest, if they were being violent?Arrest in the sense of like handcuffs and police? No.

If a Palestinian youth attacks a Jewish shepherd?There’s no correlation between how we treat Jews and how we treat Palestinians.

Did you, as a soldier, know you had the authority to arrest Jews in the occupied territories?In terms of authority, yes, I knew. In terms of feasibility, if it was something that happened, I knew it didn’t happen.