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Less than a month after its members voted in the U.N. General Assembly against Israel's security fence--which prevents terrorists from sneaking into Israel and blowing up civilians there--the European Union reportedly has plans to build a separation fence of its own.


* Less than a month after its members voted in the U.N. General Assembly against Israel's security fence--which prevents terrorists from sneaking into Israel and blowing up civilians there--the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the

European Community
 reportedly has plans to build a separation fence of its own. That fence, says the Israeli business daily Globes, will wall off new member states Poland and Hungary from their eastern neighbors, Belarus and Ukraine, to prevent migrants from entering the EU. Other critics of Israel's fence are also building fences of their own. India is constructing a permanent barrier in Kashmir to prevent Pakistani militants from infiltrating infiltrating adjective Referring to a tumor that penetrates the normal, surrounding tissue , and Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä`dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop.  is constructing an anti-terror wall along its border with Yemen. But the EU does have this distinction: It is considering bids from Israeli companies The top 10 Israeli companies by sales are[1]:
  1. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., $4.8 billion
  2. Oil Refineries Ltd (BAZAN), $4.4 billion
  3. Israel Electric Corporation, $3.4 billion
  4. Israel Chemicals, $2.
 that specialize in security systems, including the main contractor for Israel's fence. If the EU hires an Israeli company to build its very own international partition and still calls Israel's last-ditch security measure an abomination, now that'll be chutzpah chutz·pah also hutz·pah  
n.
Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality" New York Times.
.
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Date:Sep 13, 2004
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