IN STEREO

We sneak to these areas because there’s no wall. So we go to Jerusalem and we go wherever we want. It’s not too far. [We ride] bicycles, we wear almost the same clothes as them, we hide among them, and we keep walking. And you start thinking, “Why am I obliged to go to the checkpoint every day?” In the morning, people get up and go to work, people need to go to the hospital – and [there’s] always a crisis. So why do I walk this way? Just because [other] people take this way, why should I walk with them? I can go out without being stopped by anybody. If we are stopped, we will be exposed to [other] problems. There are many questions that come to mind, I mean. And by nature, I’m always opposite to people. I don’t like walking like [other] people; taking the way people [normally] take. I always like seeing other ways, new ways, anything to bring me out from what people [normally] do.

Yes, sometimes it’s dangerous. Sometimes not. I mean, I see everyone taking the ‘right’ way, because this is the safe way. The way I walk is more dangerous than the way they walk. I mean, even when I go to [work in] the settlement, it’s forbidden to walk – a car must come to take me. I [still] walk. I don’t care if they capture me, cancel my permit, put me in prison, I don’t know. I don’t like to stick to laws. They tell me to go through the checkpoint. I don’t want to pass through the checkpoint. Capture me, do whatever you want. Who are you to put me on this path? It’s a dangerous way, but a person must try. A person shouldn’t surrender. They should persevere, look for ways to reach what they want. – Mohammad