Sorry, I didn’t see the movie. and I didn’t interview soldiers about their orders so I don’t feel qualified to discuss Naza.

What my friends and I discussed today was ‘free will’ in Elizabeth Strout’s latest book, “The Things We Never Say,”  and how much free will people have in today’s world.  I was thinking about how I always felt safe and free in Israel when i first came.  of course it was a delusion.  But it was a sense of freedom. 

Here is one incident I remember clearly.  I was hitch hiking from Tiberias to Jerusalem and a man with his daughter picked me up on the road.  As we drove we made small talk and suddenly he told me that is not a good idea for me to be hitchhiking around in Israel.  Of course he was right.  I don’t remember now at what point I realized he was Arab.  But I have written about it at least once in these pages, it was the moment I realized I was taking my freedom way too far, that there are limitations we impose on ourselves as part of a dialogue with society.  

But it has to be a reasonable society and there has to be a dialogue.  And we have to know the rules.  And sometimes we follow the rules for our own good.

Put this in the context of the movie.