Word: barriere
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...that’s not why Evans is known on this side of the Charles. Here, he’s the bad guy: the man behind the push for stricter alcohol policies at the Harvard-Yale tailgate. Last month, he became a barrier between Snoop Dogg and Harvard, refusing to sign the event license unless more officers were hired—a cost that the Undergraduate Council (UC) couldn’t cover...
...York Times, is that the barrier’s route leaves no more than 8 percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side. The PSC also claims that 9.7 percent of Palestinians will be cut off from “cultivated lands” by the barrier, but the real number, as reported in the same article, is one half of one percent...
Furthermore, Israel has no intention of annexing any portion of the land which the security barrier puts between itself and the Green Line—the political boundary between Israel-proper and the West Bank. Israel has maintained that the barrier—96 percent of which is an easily movable chain link fence—is not a unilateral statement of final borders between it and a future Palestinian state. The fence is designed to include the maximal number of Israelis on one side and the maximal number of Palestinians on the other in order to maximize its effectiveness...
Finally, the section on the International Court of Justice does not mention the politics behind the ruling, the admitted bias against Israel of the judges involved, the changes in the route of the barrier since the ruling was issued, or the fact that it is merely a non-binding “advisory opinion” which the United States, European Union, and Russia opposed the court’s issuing...
...proposed East Asian Summit and a free trade agreement with China, now pass through Beijing. Ties with China will not supplant Australia's military alliance with the U.S., which is still supported by the great majority of Australians. Differences in political systems and social attitudes also impose a barrier to the sort of easy interaction Canberra enjoys with Washington. But in all sorts of ways, Beijing's voice is being listened to. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has used very careful language about Australia's attitude to potential conflict between China and the U.S. over Taiwan. The government restates...