does Ynet really pay this lady's salary? Let's see....who do I 'believe'...? How the hell should I know, I wasn't there... All I know is that those soldiers you are trashing stop terrorists and weapons at the checkpoint at least once a week....so next time there is a pagua, you should go wipe your ass with your 'official document'....

they created this situation.

Hamas is all set up to destroy the "Zionist Entity" and all YNet can find to write about is naughty haredim, inconvenient checkpoints, and those "eeville" settlers. All Hamas has to do is just wait until the leftists have finished exterminating the religious and then move right in for the kill.

Without people like you i dont know where we would be, thanks so much

Not here: "THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CHARTER" (Al-Mithaq Al-Kawmee Al-Philisteeni), Adopted in 1964 by the 1st Palestinian Conference Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. http://www.palestine-un.org/plo/pna_two.html Stop supporting terrorists, you self-hating filth.

Thank you for your important work. By your irritation and troubling of the IDF, we terrorist have an easier time at the checkpoints. Keep up your noble work.

Leave the IDF alone you senile old fools. I can't believe they even admit to deliberately wasting the IDF and Israeli police's time.

Do these Machsom Watch tools have a job or are they just housewives with nothing better to do with their time? I have a new mission for them...how about hugging olive trees b/c they really are so much more cuddly.

that this group continually goes to to "WATCH" they would be attending more funerals then they had ever thought possable.. I can iunderstand the human rights thing yes but to continually cause greif to those that protect them 24/7/365 is beyond me or anyone else that has served in the IDF or any other army in this world.. Ladies go back to your planet! this is the "REAL WORLD"

Could you explain to the family and friends of the brave IDF soldier who died in december saving we don't know how many of our kids from a twin suicide attack at a checkpoint near Tul Karm where you were at this time and who you were watching and protecting? Simply Disgusting. You will never learn...

Perhaps the ascendancy of Hamas, (who were elected by the "peace loving" people you are protecting ! )will jolt you "ladies" into reality. If not, I am sure one of their missles aimed at your communities will serve as a wake up call. Too bad some of Israel's deluded need sharp object lessons to realize who is their enemy and who is their foe.

instead of being such a bleeding heart for the murderous ,arabs, be more humane towards your fellow jews.? beleive you me, the arabs hate you and the machsom watch idiots even more then they hate the rest of us. at least they have some respect for the israelis who stand firm, and the ones who kiss their ugly behinds.

You make no sense... get a life idiot. This is a good Article which provides a SMALL overview of the harsh inhuman conditions Palestininas are subjected to daily on checkpoints. I know, because I travel through these damn checkpoints on daily basis and it’s miserable. They never catch anything, gangs are managing to smuggle stolen cars in and out of Nablus on daily basis – I guess they can easily smuggle a bomb if they want to. Remove theses damn checkpoints and give Palestinian some hope.

Ms. Popper: That may have been the dumbest article I have ever read. Your writing skills are as poor as your judgment. I hope next time they confiscate whatever tools you use to waste readers' time on pathetic journalism. Congratulations. Now, not only are you a disgrace to your country but you are also a disgrace to your profession. Keep up the good work.

BEFORE YOU JUDGE THE SOLDIERS AND WRONGLY ACCUSE THEM, HOW ABOUT LEARNING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PROCEDURE AND USE YOUR HEAD A LITTLE BEFORE JUMPING TO PRE-CONCEIVED CONCLUSIONS. AS SOMEONE WHO SERVED AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF HOURS AT MACHSOMIM I KNOW THAT THE TAXI DRIVERS WERE LIKELY NOT BEING "PUNISHED" RATHER THEIR ID'S WERE BEING CALLED IN TO SEE IF THEY WERE WANTED TERRORISTS, I KNOW YOU WOULD RATHER, WANTED TERRORISTS, NOT TO BE STOPPED FROM COMING INTO ISRAEL AND BLOWING THEMSELVES UP, BUT TRY TO BE A LITTLE CONSIDERATE YOUR NEIGHBOR WHO WILL BE SPLASHED AGAINST THE WALL OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD CAFE TOMORROW. HAVE A LITTLE APPREICIATION FOR THE SOLDIERS WHO ARE TRYING TO PROTECT YOUR A--. EVEN IF YOU WOULD SACRIFICE YOUR FREINDS, FAMILY'S AND YOUR PEOPLES LIVES RATHER THEN HAVE A TAXI DRIVER HAVE TO WAIT FOR A BIT (AND BE "PUNISHED") WHILE WE TRY AND MAKE SURE HES NOT COMING FOR YOUR CHILD. GROW UP, TRY AND USE YOUR HEAD, I DONT THINK ITS BEEN BLOWN UP YET!!

You misrable airhead, move to gaza and live among your friends.

why on Earth would IDF even allow these left-wing terror-supporting nuts to even come close to an army checkpoint? They have an "agreement " with IDF? What?! Why don't these "human rights watchers" report on "the level of tolerance" at hamas rallies?

HOW CAN YOU, YNET, HAVE FALLEN TO THIS? "Police, IDF coordinate checkpoint bluffs Ynet reporter accompanies Machsom Watch women to Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, unravels police, IDF harmonize bluffs to hinder work of organization" ????????????????? SHOULD MAYBE READ MACHSOM-WATCH, YNET, TERRORISTS HARMONIZE BLUFFS TO HINDER WORK OF IDF TO PROTECT ISRAELI CIVILLIANS FROM TERROR ATTACKS. Where are your ethics? Ynet, You have fallen

The IDF logged 2,990 attacks during your alleged "truce." So it's a bit more serious than a few stolen cars.

Should be defused by one of the "Machsom Watch" terrorist lovers, why waste a good robot when you can send a braindead lefty.

The presence of observers at the checkpoints is not intended to close them down and allow "terrorists" free access to Israel. Observers can verify that the military is carrying out its duty as dictated by a supposedly democratic government system in Israel. In Russia, such NGOs today are targeted as anti-patriotic and shut down - but in the West they are celebrated as upholders of democracy and human rights. Not that most countries are enlightened, but which camp do you want to belong to and strive for, tyrranical military opressors or open, civil, free societies that allow scrutiny of the military and the upholding of democratic laws and agreements? A police vehicle chasing down civilians that left a scene peacefully is a sad event for a supposedly enlightened country.

If not stop whining. Better yet, go back to South Africa where you came from.

This type of things does far more to erode support for Israel than Palestinian propaganda ever could. The shoterim and khayalim involved would do well to remember this: the women of Makhsom Watch will NEVER throw acid in your face; those you're risking your lives to protect, however, definitely will.

why don’t you ask the suicide bombers why they don’t the give the Israeli people human rights?? Whether the soldiers are right or wrong some of those people want to harm innocent Israelis!! They just voted hamas, isn’t it clear which direction they are going?? write some decent articles please!!!

"women of Makhsom Watch will NEVER throw acid in your face" What they will do is create a diversion to allow a terrorist to slip through with a bomb belt and blow up a dozen people. That's a tad more unpleasant that getting sprayed with grapefruit juice, dont'cha think?

B"H And as a settler in the West Bank Jewish Settlment in Europe, Michael, there is no proof that you, or any other settler, threw acid in a soldiers face, either. Nice point you have. But it is off the very interesting topic of soldier-irritation by soldier watchers.

Yeah, never let a straw man get in the way of emotive rhetoric, will you. It is perfectly possible to foil terrorists and frustrate their designs while STILL treating everyone like a human being AND obeying the directives of your own commanders, in other words, without acting like a bully and brat.

That is the reason for the checkpoints.

Unless they are "settlers" or Haredim. Then, there's no limit to the torture & the body count, eh Steiner? Ur crocodile tears for inconvenienced terrorists and ur hyper-joy at the suffering of Jews proves yet again U R A MAMZER