Tell me a bit about your feeling towards the end of your time in Hebron. I think Hebron is the place that astounded me the most, in the sense of humanity, to see what a person is capable to become through the moment he goes home and comes back. He goes home, lives his normal life, plays with his family or nieces and nephews, talks about life, lives, has fun with his friends. And then Sunday comes and he goes back to the army, wears his field dress, his [ceramic] vest, and just goes out to make other people's lives miserable. With me, personally, it all disappeared over there, I think I got some kind of a sense that human beings are not equal. It was the result of our mission and perhaps even more the result of the method of keeping security, which was, among other things, imposing order in aggressive manners. We were so bored over there so we would find some kind of, as bad as it sounds, some kind of pleasure in picking on the locals. I mean, whether it is the willingness to mock at a person for being ugly or curse him in a language he doesn’t understand. Kind of being entertained by the local population. As bad as it sounds, we... it was some kind of loss of humanity.
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