"There’s a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you
serve in the territories and how fucked in the head you get. If someone is
in the territories half a year, he’s a beginner, they don’t allow him into the
04 interesting places, he does guard-duty, he’s not the one to… all he does is just
grow more and more bitter, angry. The more shit he eats, from the Jews and
the Arabs and the army and the state, they call that numbness but I don’t…
maybe it’s a heightening of the senses, like getting drunk… because serving
in the territories isn’t about numbness, it’s a “high,” a sort of negative high:
you’re always tired, you’re always hungry, you always have to go to the
bathroom, you’re always scared to die, you’re always eager to catch that
terrorist. It’s a life without rest. Even when you sleep, you don’t sleep well.
I don’t remember even once sleeping well in Hebron. At home I’d arrive,
fall asleep, get up—wow, that was some sleep! It doesn’t need to be a long
sleep. It’s simply an experience that no human being should have. It fucks
with your head. It’s the experience of a hunted animal, a hunting animal, of
an animal, whatever…"
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