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ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:03:56 -0500

ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS
by ADINA KUTNICKI
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 26, 2011

(Editors Note: The author variously uses the terms GSS [General Security Services], Shin Bet, Shabak, ISA [Israel Security Agency]. They are all names for Israels internal security service.]

In western democracies, a persons home is considered his castle. Therefore, if a government banishes a citizen from his home, the act must be based on a judicious interpretation of the law. The detainee must present a clear and present danger.

Chief Justice Aharon Barak, previous president of the Supreme Court, underscored his belief in this principle, albeit not from a perspective which protects the rights of Jewish nationalists. On July 15, 2002, Justice Barak ruled in the Ajuri case: Our point of departure is that in principle removing a person from his dwelling place and forcibly moving him someplace else causes serious harm to his self respect, his freedom, and his possessions. A persons home is not only a roof over his head, it is the means for establishing his physical and social relationships. A number of a persons basic human rights are harmed when he is forcibly removed to another place , even if such a move does not involve an international crossing. Tragically, his legal opinion was rendered in relation to the protection of the civil and human rights of terrorists! The security services recommended their expulsion from Nablus to Gaza, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the terrorists.

Even the pro-Arab Btselem human rights organization is unhappy about administrative detention/expulsion orders, stating: Undoubtedly the state should act determinedly against settlers who harm Palestinians and their property, but the way to achieve this is via criminal proceedings and not administrative orders that are based on confidential information.

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MY PRAYER FOR ISRAEL ROSH HASHONA 5771

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:41:35 -0500

An editorial form the October 2003 issue of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE. Re-issued every year I need to.

MY PRAYER FOR ISRAEL ROSH HASHONA 5771

By Bernard J. Shapiro

As I survey the fragile planet we call home, my mind makes note of the chaos, blood, and tears. The cries of a million lost souls shatter the night in a million corners of the earth. The sensitive, compassionate among them try to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked. One by one their energies dissipate. They try to hold back the tide with a teaspoon and then see the impossibility of the task. The Jewish people are but a cosmic speck in this universe. To many Jews who feel deeply about their own people, that speck becomes the whole world. Other Jews are irrevocably tied to non-Jewish pursuits.

May we as a people open our eyes and begin to see the world as it really is. Without becoming depressed and morose, we must realize that there are powerful forces in the world that wish us ill. May we mobilize our strength to fight our enemies until they are defeated. May we not succumb to false prophets of peace. We all want peace. We pray for peace in our Sabbath services every Friday night.

After thousands of years, being victims of persecution, expulsion, extermination, and discrimination, it is natural that we yearn for peace with every ounce of our bodies and souls. It is because our hunger for peace is so strong that we must be doubly cautious not to fall for a pseudo-peace.

Today none of us believe Chamberlain really negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. Why do some Jews believe that Peres and Rabin really negotiated "peace" with Arafat, one of today's Hitlers? The Jewish people must learn the value of unity in the face of so many enemies who wish them ill.

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WE NEED HEROES TODAY - Let Us Be Like Maccabees

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:15:07 -0600

WE NEED HEROES TODAY
Let Us Be Like Maccabees
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
December 13, 2009

The year is 70 C.E. and a young Roman legionnaire stands on a hill overlooking Jerusalem. While he watches it burn, he says to his comrades in Latin, "Judea Capta Est" (Judea is conquered).Yet like the legendary phoenix, rising from the ashes of its own destruction, Israel burst onto the world's stage 2000 years later, with the cry of a lusty infant yearning to breathe free. Five Arab armies tried to destroy that new life before it could take hold. With blood and fire, including the sacrifice of one per cent of its population (6000 of its best young people), besieged Israel secured its independence.

Just nine short years earlier, European Jewry faced its most devastating experience, the Holocaust. In the areas under Nazi occupation, the Jewish death rate was 90%. Despite revolts in dozens of camps, and heroic resistance with the partisans of free Europe, the Jews were unorganized, unarmed and ultimately became victims. During both the Holocaust and Israel's War of Independence, the world and its leaders were indifferent, if not hostile, to the fate of the Jews.

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LECTURE ON ISRAEL FUTURE SECURITY AND SURVIVAL

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:01:52 -0500

LECTURE ON ISRAEL FUTURE SECURITY AND SURVIVAL
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
www.freeman.org
Labor Day - September 7, 2009

Thank you Dr. Frank and Alice Lanza for giving me the financial and moral support to make this evening possible.

A special warm thanks to my old friends Rabbi Jack Segal and Dr. Richard H. Rolnick. Both of you mean more to me than words can explain. I have learned and grown over the years by being close to you. Through good and bad times your words of wisdom have motivated me to keep working for Israel.

INTRODUCTION

In 1934, Harry W. Freeman, my grandfather, was already lecturing about the dangers of Hitler and Nazism. Nobody listened. The Holocaust was not prevented. Today, in 2009 there are 1.9 billion Arab & Moslem people who plan a second Holocaust against the Jews of Israel and the world. The governments and people of Europe not only acquiesce but actively aid in this genocidal plan through diplomatic and material support. The American State Department encourages the Arabs by actively striving to weaken Israels strategic and military superiority. Their first stage is to use the so called peace process to weaken Israel and strip it of its strategic territories. They are being aided by the same hypocrites and accomplices in the West who failed to aid the Jews of Europe in their darkest hour. Unfortunately, even left-wing Israelis have fallen victims to the seductive lure of peace and have begun a policy of appeasement similar to that tried with Hitler. The results will be no different.

The Arab propaganda full of slanders and libels; the media bias against Israel replete with double standards and the rewriting of history are all working to the same end: the de-legitimation of Israel. Israel is the only country considered by many to be GUILTY OF ORIGINAL SIN by virtue of its very existence. This process of de-legitimation has as its goal creating a world climate in which the DESTRUCTION of Israel is acceptable. Many in the Jewish community are either apathetic or fail to recognize this threat. Fortunately the Jews have new allies in the Evangelical Christian Community and in the Hindu community that has suffered Moslem depredations for about1400 years.

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1929-2009 Of the Jewish Orphanings from Family and Country

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:47:11 -0500

1929-2009 Of the Jewish Orphanings from Family and Country
"Of the Jewish Orphanings from Family and Country"
by Evelyn Hayes
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
August 6, 2009

Today I met an orphan of the 1929 massacre of Jews in Jerusalem because of a blood libel. Shmuel Tsefania survived the massacre under his dead mother's body. He survived the Friday mutilations and massacre in the Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem called Nissan Bak, across from Meah Shearim, near the Damascus gate. When the Jews came to bury their dead on Friday, the bodies were un-identifiable. The burial was postponed until Saturday evening. The sound of a baby's cry came from below the dead. That baby is now 81. His tale is the tale of Jewish rights and reality that needs rectification for the dead and for the living. We heard his story and said kaddish in front of the mass grave at the Mount of Olives Cemetery.

From a loving established family, left was a Jewish orphan. Not only was he orphaned, but the neighborhood of Batei Nissan lost most of its Jews in 1929 and all of its Jews by the Jordanian invasion and occupation in 1948. The neighborhood was established by a printer from Tsefat. He also put up a shul, the tallest in the Old City which housed 58 shuls which the Jordanians destroyed. It was called Batei Eshel Avraham. The parking lot outside this neighborhood where we parked today was all Jewish houses that were homes to 200 families. Jews were killed. An orphan survived. The neighborhood was almost Judenrid because of the pogroms that killed about 133 Jews. The dead of Nissan Bak are buried in a mass grave in the Mount of Olives Cemetery. We visited the dead again 80 years later.

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nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:58:45 -0600

WILL ISRAEL FALL FOR THE
MUBARAK GAMBIT ON THE GOLAN?
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
December 19, 2008
[This article was originally witten in 1994 and since revised)

The word has gone forth from Jerusalem. Now there is no doubt, despite a multitude of denials. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (and now there is talk that Netanyahu might be interested in a deal.) has already agreed to surrender the whole Golan Heights to Syrian dictator Hafez Assad. It took months of couching, but finally Syrian dictator Hafez Assad has learned to say the word "peace." Does he mean it? The United State's State Department has announced that once peace is made with Syria, then 18 other Arab countries will make peace with Israel. The pressure to accept a withdrawal will be immense. Golan residents are beginning massive resistance, including hunger strikes and demonstrations. Labor MK Avigdor Kahalani is organizing a faction in the Knesset to resist withdrawal from the Golan. He has tabled a bill to raise the vote necessary for approval of territorial change from a simple majority (61) to 70 Knesset members.

The time has come to clear the smoke and mirrors. There is a significant Israeli dilemma in the negotiating framework with Syria. I call this dilemma: the "Mubarak gambit." After Egyptian dictator Anwar Sadat's death, his successor Hosni Mubarak discovered that Egypt could ignore its peace treaty obligations to Israel with impunity. Sadat had signed over 50 agreements and amendments to the Camp David Accords, which spelled out in great detail normalization of relations with Israel. These included trade, tourism, science, cultural and other attributes of peaceful relations. The late Menachem Begin, of blessed memory, fully believed that his sacrifice of Sinai, with its air bases and oil, was worth the inauguration of peaceful relations with the most important country in the Arab world.
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A New Plan for Jerusalem's Old City

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:10:19 -0600

A New Plan for Jerusalem's Old City
By Moshe Phillips
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
December 4, 2008

Jerusalem's Old City is the holiest part of Judaism's holiest city. What we now call the "Old City" is what the Bible means when it refers to Jerusalem. There should be little doubt that the new Obama/Clinton policy for Israel will include pressure on Israel to negotiate away Israel's full control of the Old City and other parts of Jerusalem. Benjamin Netanyahu now has the opportunity to, as he has so often put it in the past: "change the facts on the ground".

Netanyahu is projected to bring Likud electoral victory. But what new ideas is he advancing? Netanyahu should announce now, before the Knesset election, that the next Likud led government will relocate the Prime Minister's Office and the Prime Minister's official residence to Jerusalem's Old City and it will begin the process upon the first day he takes office.

Support for such a dynamic move would come from Jews the world over and other friends of Israel. It could also lead to more pressure being put on the Obama Administration to move America's Embassy. In a 1996 letter the late Senator Jesse Helms wrote to a Jerusalem based policy group that "I look forward to working with you to encourage all nations to move their embassies to Jerusalem, and to recognize that Holy City as Israel's eternal capital."

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TRUTH ABOUT THE HOUSE OF PEACE (HEBRON) THE LEFT DESTROYS

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:32:09 -0600

TRUTH ABOUT THE HOUSE OF PEACE (HEBRON) THE LEFT DESTROYS
By Avi Dobuler
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
December 4, 2008

This is the story, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

A few years ago our Moslem Arab cousins/peace partners in the dark attacked worshippers returning Saturday night/motsay Shabbat from prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. Funds had been allocated to to develop the connecting path with among other things better lighting, etc, but the intention hadn't been implimented.

After the devastating attack with its murder & maiming of Jews including the highest ranking soldier Brigade commander, Colonel Dror Weinberg- may G-d avenge his and their blood, the settlers wanted to put up houses along the path in an empty field to better provide security in the area. The Jews set up the beginnings of a "maachaz" tents as a prelude to building. The government protested promising the protection of its citizens by putting up a guarded watchtower. After shiva, the 7 days of morning, for all intensive purposes, the tower, while remaining is usually vacant - all show- but no substance.

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THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL HAS OVERTHROWN ITSELF

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:01:48 -0600

THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL HAS OVERTHROWN ITSELF
by Emanuel A. Winston,
Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator
November 23, 2008

Through incitement and provocation, the present Government of Israel has deliberately incited part of her population to revolt. At the same time, this non-Government has incited another part of the Israeli population to hate and attack those citizens being dispossessed of their rights, property - civilians who have had their lives put in great danger.
Whatever mandate this government thinks it may have had to rule, based upon pre-election promises has been squandered away with a cold and calculating policy of "Dispossession".

This exceedingly corrupt assemblage of politicians within the Kadima Party have made a mockery of any law or rights of her citizens. They have corrupted an already biased Court system. They have exercised control and influenced the office of Israels Attorney General and have enlisted officers of the both the Army and the Police to attack and dispossess her citizens of their rights and property.

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VICTORY PLAN FOR ISRAEL

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:37:30 -0500

VICTORY PLAN FOR ISRAEL
Notes and Bio From A Frustrated Jewish, Zionist,
Israeli and Texas American
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 20, 2008

PART ONE: EARLY BIO

I was always a Jew, but something happened to me in 1959 that turned me into a Zionist. Dont laugh, but I took a course in modern Jewish history and two of the reading assignments were: EXODUS by Leon Uris and THE COURSE OF MODERN JEWISH HISTORY by Howard M. Sacher. Coming from a Reform Jewish background in a state known more for its Texas pride than Jewish pride, I have come a long way. It has been an exciting journey, but now I am sad and frustrated.

I went to Israel for the first time with the Israel Summer Institute in 1960, and of course, fell in love with Eretz Yisrael. I returned to complete my studies at the University of California at Berkeley. My love for Israel seemed to be growing daily and expressed itself in multiple pro-Israel activities on the campus. I turned Hillel into and instrument of Zionist influence on the campus. The Hillel rabbi (like most of them was not a true Zionist) and sought to rain me in. He failed as I formed the Student Zionist Organization and increased my activities. We brought a steady stream of Israeli speakers to the campus and introduced African-Israeli-Zionist Night. Running two years in a row, it consisted of African, Jewish, Israel food, culture, dancing, literature. I worked as a liaison for the Israel Consul in San Francisco. He provided us and the Africans with some funding and support.

In retrospect these were great years, and perhaps impossible to recreate in the conditions today on U.S. Campuses. Even then the 5000 Arabs on the Berkeley Campus tried to stop us by enlisting the services of Gamel Abdul Nasser (dictator of Egypt) to persuade the African to boycott us. He failed as our influence was paramount.

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TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OF OLMERT - DAYENU -- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:46:39 -0500

TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OF OLMERT,
BARAK, LIVNI AND PERES

DAYENU -- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
April 2, 2008

Dear Friends of Israel:

Like most of you, I am frustrated, angry and depressed over the actions of the Israeli government. We must, however, get over the depression and then use our anger to spur ourselves to greater action on behalf of Israel. EIN BREIRA. In that spirit I offer the following chant or song to sing at demonstrations (slightly abridged from the popular song sung at Passover). Sing the traditional Dayanu, and then the new resistence against the deportation of Jews from Eretz Yisrael Dayanu. Please distribute to your friends for their family Seder this year as widely as possible:........With Love of Israel
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TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OF OLMERT, BARAK,
LIVNI AND PERES

DAYENU -- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH

If you had collaborated with enemy to get elected to office,
Dayenu -- It would have been enough to rebel against your rule

If you had collaborated with the enemy and not given away our Sacred Land and Holy Places,
Dayenu -- It would have been enough to rebel against your rule

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MY PRAYER FOR ROSH HASHONAH - 5768

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:29:20 -0600

[Author Note: Each year for the past many years, I have re- issued this prayer. Unfortunately my prayers don't seem to be answered. I know they are the prayers of many of my readers also. What to do?

My New Years's Card showed my rage and anger at the situation we face. This prayer is more hopeful. It also demonstrates my mixed state of rage and hope. I think that all Lovers of Zion have similar feelings......Please read and MAKE IT HAPPEN THIS YEAR, 5768.....Bernard]

MY PRAYER FOR ROSH HASHONAH - 5768
By Bernard J. Shapiro
http://freeman.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/324-MY-PRAYER-FOR-ROSH-HASHONAH-5767.html

As I survey the fragile planet we call home, my mind makes note of the chaos, blood, and tears. The cries of a million lost souls shatter the night in a million corners of the earth. The sensitive, compassionate among them try to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked. One by one their energies dissipate. They try to hold back the tide with a teaspoon and then see the impossibility of the task. The Jewish people are but a cosmic speck in this universe. To many Jews who feel deeply about their own people, that speck becomes the whole world. Other Jews are irrevocably tied to non-Jewish pursuits.

May we as a people open our eyes and begin to see the world as it really is. Without becoming depressed and morose, we must realize that there are powerful forces in the world that wish us ill. May we mobilize our strength to fight our enemies until they are defeated. May we not succumb to false prophets of peace. We all want peace. We pray for peace in our Sabbath services every Friday night. After thousands of years, being victims of persecution, expulsion, extermination, and discrimination, it is natural that we yearn for peace with every ounce of our bodies and souls. It is because our hunger for peace is so strong that we must be doubly cautious not to fall for a pseudo-peace. Today none of us believe Chamberlain really negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. Why did some Jews believe that Peres and Rabin really negotiated "peace" with Arafat, one of today's Hitlers?
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THE FREEMAN CENTER EXPOSED - THE GOOD AND THE BAD (?)

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:11:49 -0600

THE FREEMAN CENTER EXPOSED - THE GOOD AND THE BAD (?)
By Bernard J. Shapiro

Please read this message carefully.

The Freeman Center has been around for so long (since 1992) most people take it for granted. Readers depend on the Freemanlist daily news and commentary. We have always had a unique philosophy of being generous to other Zionist organizations and new authors. While most Jewish websites distribute only their own material, we send you a mixture of excellent material from many sources. Sort of a one stop shop for serious Zionists.

At the time we launched our website, there were less than 10 strong Zionist sites on the Internet. Today there are 10,000 Jewish sites, many of them Zionist. The new ones came up following our lead and copying our model. They had much more money and jazzier graphics. We have always concentrated on being primarily a text site for people wanting in depth reports and commentary on the news. In the USA, academics, the military, the government and many politicians read our reports. I don't claim to have convinced anybody of anything. We provided the information for sound judgments. Some understood it and some didn't.

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A TIME FOR PEACE, AND A TIME FOR WAR

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:30:14 -0600

[Unfortunately I am forced to revise and reissue this article. It was written originally during the early days of the Oslo Appeasement and was the cover editorial in the August 1995 issue of THE MACCABEAN.]

A TIME FOR PEACE, AND A TIME FOR WAR
By Bernard J. Shapiro

We find all the expressions of horror a recent Rabbi's ruling concerning a soldier's obligation to avoid abandoning army bases and settlements to terrorists, to be hypocritical, self-serving, and unfortunate. The Israeli government is in rebellion against everything that Israel, Zionism, and Judaism are all about. They are the ones causing the rift in the body politic and they will be totally responsible for any resulting violence. We must pray that this does not happen.

When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with the PLO supporting tyranny that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? Why don't members of the Nationalist Camp understand that FORCE is being used by only ONE side and that is the government.
The monopoly on power must be broken or there is no hope.

Under the Nazis, the Jews of Warsaw numbered over 500,000. They were depleted with regular deportations aided by Judenrats (Jewish leaders). The Revolt in Warsaw began when the Jewish population was down to 50,000 (or 90% murdered). At what point is it OK to rebel? When is civil disobedience OK? When is civil war a better course than suicide? All throughout history there have been rebels and loyalists. History is usually written by the victors but truly there is seldom a universally accepted moral standard as to what is a proper rebellion and what is not. We can say with absolute certainty, however, that the Jewish return to Zion and our struggle today for Eretz Yisrael are more righteous than any other struggle for national liberation in the history of the world.

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CHANUKAH AND JEWISH HISTORY - Will We Be Maccabees Or Victims?

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:29:29 -0600

CHANUKAH AND JEWISH HISTORY
Will We Be Maccabees Or Victims?
By Bernard J. Shapiro

[Freeman Center Note: Every year I send out this article at Chanukah with some revisions. It is frustrating, since nothing on the ground really changes in Israel. Some important leaders in Israel are beginning to wake up. I am very impressed with Caroline Glick and others who are calling for a real revolt against the government of self destruction. Many, like the Matars and the Winstons, have been figting from the beginning. Paul Eidelberg has laid the foundation for a true Jewish state.

I remember in the early days of Oslo, when Rabin told us "to spin like propellers." It seem that nothing would work. It was in those days that I developed the somewhat earthy philosophy that the "Leftist traitors could kick us in the b**ls but they could not stop us from screaming. I have been screaming for a long time. When will the REVOLT come? Dan Nimrod, who was one of the founding members of the Freeman Center once told me that"dreke doesn't explode." And my wonderful grandfather, Harry W. Freeman, despite his dedication to equal rights and social justice, explained to me that politically the "masses are asses."

So what are we left with. We must not despair. We must rise up and seize what rightfully belongs to the Jewish People. The Land of Israel and its Holy Sites are not the property of a Left wing oligarchy, the Vatican, the EU, the US or pagans. It belongs to us "in perpetuity." From my mouth to G-d's ear...Bernard]

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