Qalandiya, Monday 27.12.04 AMObservers: Sigal R., Aliza K. (reporting)6:05 a.m. – as we arrived at the roundabout, taxi drivers were warming themselves by the coffee or tea stands, traffic is still sparse.They say the situation is unchanged, a certain indifference to the elections.6:15, the CP seems quiet. We counted 18 southbound cars awaiting check.The passage to the north was easy, no waiting line.As we got to the CP, the women’s line was opened. One soldier checked and sent any boy over 16 to the men’s line, even schoolchildren. The soldier claimed these were the orders. Another soldier thought otherwise, it seems instructions are unclear.One of the passers-by at the CP called the soldiers’ attention to a graffiti on the concrete railing in the inner line, written in Russian, very offensive to Arabs. The soldiers promised to erase it. Machsomwatchers, please note whether this has been done!Our talks with people at the CP reveals a lack of interest in the upcoming elections, and they assure us nothing has changed at the checkpoints.This morning as well, as has already been reported, a soldier standing on a podium in the passage “directed traffic” shouting loudly and gesticulating: up to the line, don’t cross! one, two, three… When we stood next to him, he lowered his voice a bit, but still “directed traffic”.The women’s line got crowded, and when we asked Galit, the woman-commander, to send another soldier to help check, she rudely ignored our request.We left the CP at 7:45, stopped for a chat with the bagel vender about soldiers who sometimes chase him away, but let him stand there today, at the curb of the roundabout, without interfering.