Bethlehem area, Wednesday PM, 16.8.06Observers: Laura S., Maya BH (reporting), guestAl Nashash, 15:00. We stopped for the usual transferring of documents –receipts for paid fines, which would allow the finees to apply for amagentic card, which would allow them to apply for permits, which wouldallow them to eke out a living, which would allow them …Ezyon DCL: Wonder of wonders — not a single person waiting to get in.An even greater wonder — a soldier from inside asking whether there isanyone out there who wants to get in. And there wasn’t! We have noexplanation — perhaps just a statistical fluke. This is not to say thereweren’t a few folks milling about outdoors. They were not waiting to getin. They had already been in. And their requests denied. We handed outSylvia’s famous application forms, and wished good luck to therecipients.We drove on route 60 all the way to Beit Umar and back, including a stopin Beit Jalla. No flying CPs, no military jeeps, no detainees on theroadside. But the routs, of cours.A queue formed at the Tunnel CP, Jerusalem bound.