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ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES'

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:40:43 -0500

ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES'

By Charles Bybelezer
September 6, 2012 -Daily Mailer, FrontPage

Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to extend well-wishes on the occasion of Id al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
He did so despite the fact that Abbas continues to shun negotiations with the Jewish state and again has threatened to pursue a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September.

Netanyahus goodwill gesture reportedly was followed by similar phone calls to Abbas by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Molcho also called PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad.
The calls came on the heels of other goodwill gestures made by Israel over the last few months aimed at coaxing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table; including, but not limited to:

1. The issuance of thousands of additional Israeli work permits to Palestinian laborers;
2. The advance to the PA on the eve of Ramadan of approximately NIS 200 million in levies collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians so that government salaries could be paid;
3. The signing of an economic accord with the PA in order to enhance trade;
4. The signing of a deal to end a hunger strike by Palestinians jailed in Israel, in which Israel even agreed to allow convicted terrorists to pursue academic studies;
5. The tabling of an offer, confirmed by PA Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe, to release in four stages 125 Palestinian security prisoners, many of whom were convicted of murdering Israelis (the proposal was summarily rejected by Abbas, who demanded the prisoners be released simultaneously);
6. The transfer to the PA of the bodies of approximately 90 deceased terrorists, whose remains subsequently were glorified en masse in official ceremonies.

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YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:28:29 -0500

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
by Jack Berger
Member of the Board of Directors
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
October 17, 2011

You are standing today, all of you (all generations) before Hashem, your G-d, from the heads of your tribes, your elders your children from the (highest) in society to the drawer of your water, for you to pass into the covenant Hashem, your G-d in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He will be a G-d to you I call on heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, a blessing and a curse, you shall choose life so that you will live to dwell on the land that I swore to your forefathers (to your fathers and grandfathers) and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. (Deut. 29-30)

Looking at the world today I think back to the words of Charles Dickens, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us When I first read those words in high school, I believed that they were far removed from the rest of my life. America was in a simpler place. My only serious question was why wouldnt Sandy Koufax pitch the first game of the World Series after all was Yom Kippur really that big a deal and it wasnt like he wore a kippah and kept kosher. It was a time when questions hadnt been asked yet and didnt need to be answered. Today has caught up with yesterday.

For me, years before my Bar Mitzvah, I remember the words on our Day of Atonement. Words when secular Jewish friends of mine only came to synagogue one day a year would show up on Yom Kippur to hear who will live and who will die The profundity of that one line and its finite reality, its focus, its simple yet unambiguous statement is a statement that few Jews can turn away from or forget. The gift we have been given is the gift of time money comes, money goes, our days are moments as part of an eternity that we are only blessed to know for a very short time.

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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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ISLAM, THE FALSE MASK OF RELIGION

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:01:01 -0500

ISLAM, THE FALSE MASK OF RELIGION
By Emanuel A. Winston,
Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
Auust 22, 2010

Religion, when taught and practiced with restraint and decency, is a valuable ever irreplaceable guide for humankind.
However, when a specific religion teaches its children to hate and kill, then it cannot be defended as a religion. Then it is a blood/death cult, practicing child abuse on their own children.

History is replete with confirmed accounts of nations and their particular religion being used as a reason for conquest, looting the victim society, forced conversion of the conquered society and, finally, mass extermination of all those who resist.
Some self-anointed religions are merely pagans who worship idols and gods whom their Priest Cult interprets as the wishes of their panoply of gods. The only limitations on their practices would be the creative imaginations of their Priest Cults. Human sacrifice was common then and, strangely, it last into present time.

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NIDAL MALIK HASAN MASSACRE AT FORT HOOD - WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:21:02 -0600

[Freeman Note: We watched and found it tragic, how the media and political figures bent over backward not to mention the Islamic connection. As far back as 1968, with the assasination of Robert Kennedy, I wrote about this as anti-Israel terrorism. No one published my story.]

NIDAL MALIK HASAN MASSACRE AT FORT HOOD - WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
by Emanuel A. Winston,
Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
November 6, 2009

Is there any doubt that G-d is fulfilling the promise He made to Avraham: "I will bless those who bless thee and curse those who curse thee." ?

Has President Barack Obama brought this promised curse to America as he bonds with radical Islamists and attacks Israel on their behalf? Muslims in America are a dangerous element in our nation, despite the political dance, firstly by President George W. Bush and now by President Barack Hussein Obama to assure us that Muslims and Islam are perfectly safe for Americans.

Did todays November 5th massacre at Fort Hood, Texas prove that wrong? The shooter was named as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim psychiatrist who objected to being posted to either war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Reportedly, Hasan killed 11 and wounded 31 with 2 handguns - at a soldiers collection point and processing center for those being organizing to leave for either front or returning stateside and being processed.
For the first several hours it was reported that Hasan had been killed in the shoot-out, but later reports say he was shot multiple times but, HE IS SAID

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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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LET THE FREEMAN CENTER TAKE OVER THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY-War Crimes Charges Grow, Jerusalem Silent

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:48:08 -0600

LET THE FREEMAN CENTER TAKE OVER THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY
War Crimes Charges Grow, Jerusalem Silent
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 27, 2009

FOR THE SAKE OF ISRAEL WE MUST DRAFT THE FREEMAN CENTER TO HANDLE PUBLIC RELATION FOR THE JEWISH STATE. THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS CAUSED GREAT DAMAGE TO THE GOOD NAME OF ISRAEL. I WOULD AGREE TO LET THE OFFICE WORKERS THERE CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF VISAS AND TOURISM (LIVNI LOVED TO SHOW ISRAEL, NOT AS LAND OF THE BIBLE, BUT AS SEXY BIKINI CLAD ISRAELI GIRLS).

THE FREEMAN CENTER CAN DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. Put up a vigorous Zionist defense of Israel at one tenth of one percent (0.01) the cost of the entire Israeli Foreign Ministry.

2. And they can do it with NO guilt feelings

3. They can do this with NO apologies to the World, USA, EU, Arabs, Muslims, UN for breathing the oxygen of Planet Earth. And, of course, being the only indigenous people living in its natural HOME, With the deed signed by the Almighty as a perpetual trust.

4. How do I know the Freeman Center can do all of above??? It is simple, we have been doing it since 1992. The RECORD is there. Go to www.freeman.org and see over 70,000 pages of the best news and commentary on Israel in THE MACCABEAN ONLINE www.freeman.org/online.htm

During this same period, the Israel Foreign Ministry devoted all of its resources to:

a. Promoting the "tooth fairy" of Peace with Barbarians who want to destroy us.

b. Undermining organization like the Freeman Center and myself personally who defended Israel's undiminished right to self-defense, security and survival in the dangerous world we find ourselves.

c. Helping to tie the hands of the IDF and endangering the lives of our most precious commodity (our sons and daughters) to save the lives of Arabs, who wish us dead. They have accepted and defended the concept of restraint (havlagah) or "purity of arms." There is nothing pure or sacred about sacrificing Jewish blood on the ALTER of Left-wing pseudo-morality. Our enemies worship death -so help them achieve it. We believe in life - so let us save our own.

Please see articles below

Still a frustrated Zionist, after all these years---
Who still loves Israel and prays to HaShem that REALITY begin to be a guiding principle of Israeli policy.

Bernard
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HASBARA AND REALITY

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:00:53 -0600

HASBARA AND REALITY
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston)
June 1993

THE JERUSALEM POST reported last month on plans at the Israeli Foreign Ministry to abolish its "hasbara" or information efforts. It reported, "The decision to abolish hasbara is in keeping with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' view that 'if you have good policy, you do not need hasbara. And if you have bad policy, hasbara will not help.'" Those of us who have been in the trenches, fighting Arab propaganda for years, were stunned by this policy change. Most of all, we were stunned by this apparently incorrect perception of reality.

The propaganda battlefield, from which the Foreign Ministry seems eager to withdraw, is a surreal Kafkaesque landscape filled with the evil utterances of that unholy alliance of Arabs and anti-Semites. Their propaganda targets the Jewish community in America as well as Israel for a one simple reason: Anything that weakens the Jewish community and reduces their status in America ultimately limits the ability of Jews to aid Israel politically and financially. George Orwell would be quite at home with the "newspeak" of the "politically correct" bigots. Language, history, and religion become a twisted mass of bizarre concepts such as Zionism = racism.
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THE GAZA STRIP-TEASE

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:00:29 -0600

THE GAZA STRIP-TEASE
by Irwin N. Graulich
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 11, 2009

Let's strip this fight down to the actual bare facts. You elect a Nazi-like terrorist government, (and I use the comparison precisely), whose primary goal and charter is the destruction of the state of Israel.

They create schools where textbooks expound on the concept of Jews and Christians being monkeys and enemies of Islam who must be destroyed. They establish summer camps that teach 7 year olds the virtues of becoming suicide bombers, actually constructing a sample vest model complete with dynamite sticks, in arts & crafts. They continue to publicly describe Jews on radio, tv and newspapers as something lower than vermin, all of whom must be exterminated.

They spend all their time building tunnels and smuggling weapons to kill innocent civilians in Israel, instead of building businesses and a better life. They fire rockets regularly into Israeli towns and cities to goad Israel into a short-lived response that ultimately becomes a pr coup. They have weekly parades attended by upwards of 100,000 people screaming, "We will destroy the Zionist criminal pigs," and much worse.

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ANTI-SEMITIC JOURNALISTS UPSET THEY CANT GET INTO GAZA TO WRITE BIASED STORIES

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:49:45 -0600

ANTI-SEMITIC JOURNALISTS UPSET THEY CANT GET INTO GAZA TO WRITE BIASED STORIES
by Emanuel A. Winston,
Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 8, 2009

Israel will not allow foreign journalists into Gaza. (1) The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) want to protect them. They also want to avoid having Hamas target them, and then blaming the Israelis.

The anti-Semitism of the foreign press corp is Israel is legendary. Repeated instances of outright misrepresentation, distortion and staging events for the cameras are well known. The TV station - France 2 just broadcast a video of toddlers being laid out on a white sheet. The only problem was that scene occurred in 2005 when a Hamas ammunition truck exploded while on parade in Gaza.

When they speak freely, such as was heard on a BBC panel of January 7th when Robert Fisk of the INDEPENDENT gave vent to his vicious views, their bias, if not hatred comes readily apparent. He has also published his vile and false accusations. The Israeli voice on this panel (for balance), Gil Hoffman of the JERUSALEM POST was literally pushed out by the BBC announcer who said he had to leave. Hoffman said: "No, I dont." The BBC moderator let him stay for another 10 minutes and then evicted him. Others on the panel were a clearly anti-Semitic Professor and a presenter for Al Jezzera TV.

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NPR: NATIONAL "PALESTINE" RADIO

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:03:04 -0600

NPR: NATIONAL "PALESTINE" RADIO
by Emanuel A. Winston,
Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 4, 2008

Suddenly, NPR, National Public Radio, is interested in the details of "fear from bombs". Through the years, when the Arab Muslim Palestinians were engaged in suicide bombing of Israeli marketplaces, restaurants, family celebrations, buses - wherever civilians gathered - NPR barely expressed interest in the Terror and feelings of Israeli victims. That's why they call NPR - National "Palestine" Radio.

When Hamas Palestinian Arab Muslims began its daily firing of Kassam Rockets, Katyusha Missiles and Mortars, including Grad missiles from Iran, an onslaught of Terror rained down on Southern Israel for 7 years. But, NPR showed only enough interest so it could tell Congress who funds them:

"See, we are reporting the news."

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THE COSMETIC NON-SOLUTION TO GAZA

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:57:17 -0600

THE COSMETIC NON-SOLUTION TO GAZA
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 2, 2009

Herb Keinon's RECENT Jerusalem Post article analyzing the leftist
Israeli government tactics in Gaza was not very assuring.

True, Keinon told of this government's desire to degrade, discredit,
and remove Hamas from power in Gaza. But what Keinon doesn't discuss
is what this government intends afterward. This leftist government
wants to eliminate Hamas so it can surrender the area to Abbas's Fatah
group and then proceed to surrender Israel's Eastern territories to
them for a Palestinian Arab state.

What this government wants is a cosmetic, inconclusive settlement that
superficially looks good so that it can pose as the savior of Israel
and win the next election. Many rightly suspect that there is a great
deal of collusion going on in the background with Israel, the
Arabs, and with the US to make this happen.

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DISPROPORTIONATE AGAIN

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:14:52 -0600

DISPROPORTIONATE AGAIN
by Christopher Barder
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 1, 2009

In an echo of the condemnations of the summer 2006 counterattack on Hisballah, Israel has again been condemned for its strikes against terrorist targets in Gaza. Let us be clear: there is no "occupation" of Gaza by Israeli forces; there are no settlements of Jews living there any more; terrorism is not a name for "freedom fighters" since by definition it means attacking civilian targets for political/religious or quasi political purposes and Hamass rockets are part of an assault against Israels existence. Hamas is not interested in conference induced peaceful solutions.

Article 13 of Hamass Charter declares: "Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with."

Israel has never targeted civilians; almost uniquely it has made provision to provide the other sides people with medical and other humanitarian relief despite their constantly polling a minimum of 50% in favour of attacks on Israeli civilians. It has maintained warnings even to the extent of leaving voicemail messages to Gazans not to stay near arms placements (in their homes or elsewhere) because of future attacks. This limits the element of surprise to timing, as opposed to tactical operations, to some degree. Some of these practices may be regarded by some hard-nosed military personnel elsewhere, as excessively diligent, especially if they do not recognise the necessity of "purity of arms" doctrines. It has been well observed that "Western armies are engaged in asymmetric warfare against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda in Iraq, yet no such statements are made with regard to these legitimate battles in the war on terrorism."1

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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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NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUICIDE NOTE FOR ISRAEL

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:03:24 -0500

NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUICIDE NOTE FOR ISRAEL
by Emanuel A. Winston,
Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
August 21, 2008

Once again, the New York Times demonstrates its anti-Israel pro-Arab bias.

As radical Islamic "Jihadists" (holy warriors for Islam) rage across the globe, the New York Times offers a national suicide note, drafted for the Israeli Leftists to leave behind if and when she takes their advice to become a corpse. The August 18th NYT editorial "Perils of Israeli Transition" is a spin, telling us how PM Ehud Olmert is on the right track in dividing the Jewish nation to accommodate a non-people called Palestinians who support Terror and the elimination of the Jewish State.

So, lets go over the NYT suicide note: First, we are told that history is unlikely to be kind to Ehud Olmert, implying that he will be unfairly treated for what most consider the most corrupt and incompetent government Israel has ever had.

In the next paragraph, editorial spin tell us that, according to the NYT, Olmert understood that a two-state solution was vital for Israels security. That this scurrilous, anti-Semitic journal expresses concern about Israels security is laughable, considering their unbroken track record of anti-Jewish bias going back as far as WW2, when they either refused to cover the Nazi Holocaust or when they spun the information by saying unconfirmed reports suggest casualties.
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