I always thought these guard towers looked more fitting on the Death Star than.....well, where they are. I really got to thinking about these in a discussion in class today about Foucault's writings on the power of prison architecture in eliciting desired behaviors from a population and using his framework in framing the Israeli occupation. And the settlements, in being constructed on the highest points on the possible, create a similar sense of constant surveillance and being watched. It got quite creepy when we would be sitting out late and night on our deck and watch a convoy of about 15 vehicles rolls out of an outpost around 2 or 3 am.