'Atara, Sun 11.8.13, Afternoon

 Translation: Ruth Fleishman

The road that splits from 465 towards the village Ein Yabrud opened to traffic after having been blocked for years by large rocks that had been placed by the army.

But a carrot without a stick does nothing to assist the occupation, and on the day in which traffic could pass through a new roundabout was built at the junction that was formed, by it a pillbox was placed and in it were four soldiers.

It was identical to the pillbox overlooking the bridge leading to the village Atara.

"Where there is a pillbox, there are soldiers manning it" stated one of the three that came down from the tower, as though it was something out of the bible.

The three, like their other mates from the unit and the like the soldier's manning Atara checkpoint, have been told that the pillboxes were designed to make the Palestinians aware of the military presence, which is especially important at the exits from Ramallah. They also said that they didn't actually badger the Palestinians, but if they were so throw stones at Jews, that is at settlers, then the soldiers' job would be the shoot them