Nablus checkpoint - smoking break

May 2006 - my first visit to the Nablus checkpoint. While we were standing there looking at the palestinians queuing at the checkpoint to go to work, a young israeli settler approached the soldiers and complained about our presence there. While the soldiers tried to calm him down, I calmy smoked my cigarett, enjoying the fact that we managed to provoke the settler. The explanation for this is very simple: I had witnessed the likes of this young settler throwing stones at young palestinian girls on their way to school over and over again for a whole year. Needless to say, I felt no sympathy for his type anymore.