Anata, Ar-Ram, Qalandiya, Thursday, 23.3.2006, AMObservers: Ruth E., Aviva W., Rama Y. (reporting), a guestAnata. Busy as ever. The car line is long, but checking is cursory. Someone says that this is the ‘best’ CP, and that waiting time in other CPs is much longer. What we noticed was that Anata, in spite of everything, is still used as a passage, while at other places, where there are not as many Israeli ID holders, Palestinians avoid the CPs, maybe they avoid going out altogether.Ar-Ram. Few pedestrians, but many school children. Long vehicle line. Later on, when we drove back through this CP, we waited twenty minutes in line.Qalandiya. The wall will soon enclose the people who live in the area. Works are in full swing, including the inevitable roundabout; I predict plants within the roundabout and a (probably Palestinian, probably stolen) picturesque olive tree stuck exactly in the middle of it – the aesthetics of check points. There were not many pedestrians in the CP, but it was relatively late (about 09:00) when we got there. There were two lines for men, and one “humanitarian” line. We were told to wait in this line. It was longer than the other two. An extremely rude female soldier kept barking orders in Hebrew through the microphone, but it seemed that except for us, no one understood what she wanted. Twenty minutes later, when at last we went through, Ruthie approached the glass box, where this soldier was stationed, and suggested that when she addressed Palestinians she’d do it in Arabic. The answer: everyone knows Hebrew…