Tribulation at Surda checkpoint.

Describes the Surda military checkpoint, manned by Israeli soldiers until it was dismantled last month. Indication that Surda was on the road linking Ramallah with about 30 villages and Birzeit University; Effect of roadblocks on Palestinian movement in West Bank; The challenge for mass transportation in the no-drive zone; The role of the local "zu'araan" or thug in keeping order among drivers; Use of wooden pushcarts from the Ramallah vegetable market; View that Palestinian workers showed their resistance at checkpoints by subverting boundaries.