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00:00 [SPEAKING ARABIC]
00:17 It is a brainwash, but you must have this brainwash in
00:20 order to be a warrior.
00:23 I was gripped with the feeling that I did something
00:26 literally against God.
00:29 [SPEAKING ARABIC]
00:30 Probably in America, people wanted to be cowboys.
00:37 So in Israel, you want to be a soldier.
00:40 I promised myself that I wasn't going to shoot.
00:43 That promise didn't last long.
00:46 [SPEAKING ARABIC]
00:47 When I came back from Vietnam, I wasn't the same person.
00:56 I started having problems, breaking down in tears.
00:59 Running from helicopters.
01:00 Panic would just make me bolt.
01:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:05 [SPEAKING ARABIC]
01:06 I didn't think that I would feel it like that.
01:16 It's weird to feel connected to something that you don't
01:18 believe in.
01:19 I don't know.
01:20 I never touched it at all.
01:26 I never dealt with it.
01:27 I did such a good job at shutting down, I didn't
01:30 realize how difficult it is to just open up.
01:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]