Abu Dis Sunday AM, 6-2-05Observers: Chana A. and Ilana D. (reporting)Mishor Adumim, Al-Ezariya, Wadi Nar, Az-Za'ayyem and Abu Dis.A very wet and miserable morning, we first went down towards the Dead Sea, hoping against better wisdom for some sun. The Mishor Adumim CP had been moved further west, there were six yellow cabs waiting and one was detained. After we approached it was sent on its way. We were told in no uncertain terms that if we dared park along the road, Y. the commander of the CP would call the police to have us fined for stopping illegally on the curb. Since it was pouring and the queue didn’t seem long, we left avoiding a confrontation.On the way out of Al-Ezariya more than twenty cars were waiting and three had been held up to have their papers checked. One driver complained that he had been waiting for half an hour and when we inquired his documents were returned. According to the BP-man no car is held up for more than 10 minutes. We drove along the river into Abu Dis and noted that the road on the eastern side of the wall has been newly asphalted, but it was totally deserted and there was no commerce whatsoever. A short stretch of the road the transits take in the direction of Bethlehem (along the house of Abu Alaa) has also recently been paved. We passed the University Campus and noted that the wall now totally encloses the area of the basketball- and football field (it can be used to play squash). The sun came out for exactly one minute, the transit drivers greeted us warmly and a glorious rainbow welcomed us as we approached Wadi Nar. An apartheid gate at the Sawahre CP beyond the grocery store closes off the road towards Kedar. The inhabitants from the other side of Sawahre passed on donkeys. A long line didn’t seem to move from the direction of Bethlehem and the BP told us that there had been hot alerts. When we discussed aloud that we should call someone, since we had been told that at this particular CP traffic is supposed to flow, the cars were let through and after we had talked to Shlomi the long queue dissipated as if it had never existed. We returned via the new road to the Al-Ezariya CP, which had disappeared before 9:00 AM.At the Az-Za'ayyem CP we waited a couple of minutes for the soldiers to finish checking an ambulance with Palestinian number plates and continued via A-Tour to Abu-Dis. At the Bawabe (pishpash) some of the barbed wire coils had been moved to facilitate entrance into the court of the monastery, but able-bodied youngsters take the short cut and climb to the right of the wall via the fence of the villa next door. There was no BP in sight. Around the Cliff Hotel a newly built fence with a double gate seems to indicate that it might be annexed to the settlement of Kidmat Zion. We took an elderly man who spoke English well and knew MW to the pishpash. He warned us that we might get in trouble for taking an illegal. A huge earth mound has blocked off the road winding down to the roundabout in the middle of Jericho Road.