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ARMY jeeps, their radios blaring, rush by on the road below.
Time is running out. July will soon be here and there is so much that must be done before the IDF withdraws its forces from the security zone. But the tranquillity is now broken by a cacophony of baffling proportions. From dawn to dusk, the IDF bulldozers slice out a new road, along what Israel hopes will be the permanent border, adjacent to the fence of the kibbutzim. The heavy equipment's annoying beeps soon blend in with the chirping birds and the incessant Hizbullah mortar fire, along with the occasional helicopter and IAF warplane zooming to and fro.