Judea Magazine, No. 4.2
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"Rebuilding Jewish Life in Judea, Israel"
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JUDEA ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE Vol.4, No.2 Nisan-Iyar 5756/Mar-Apr 1996
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Contents:
* Judea in the Balance
* New Roads Open Judea's Frontier
* Bruce Adkins - A Friend of Israel / The Tekoa Rescue Unit
* Dave Gould: A Country Musician from Liverpool
* Jewish Heroes: The Battle of Deir Yassin
* Hiking With The Bible
* The PLO Army - The New Occupation
* Palestinians Threaten War After Terror Bombings
* Poll: Most Palestinian Students Support Terror
* Stockholm Revisited: What Arafat Says to the Arabs
* Nachshon Wachsman's Mother on Peace and Survival
* No One Really Cares About the Truth
* On the Internet: The Women in Green List / Holocaust Photos
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JUDEA IN THE BALANCE
The future of continued Jewish life in Judea will be decided on May
29, 1996, the date of the Israeli elections. That evening, thousands of
Jewish families will learn if they are to be uprooted from the homes and
lives they have built, some for nearly 20 years. The media refers to the
two contending camps as "the peace camp" in power today (after more
murders of Jews by Arabs in the two years since Oslo than in the previous
decade) and "the national camp," bidding to return to the power it held
from 1977 to 1992. The polls show a clear majority for the national camp
among Jews, but a long-predicted Israeli Arab bloc vote in Israel's
first-ever direct election for prime minister raises the clear
possibility of the election of a prime minister whom a majority of Jews
oppose.
If enough Jews unify and the national camp wins, we will be able to
continue rebuilding Jewish life in Judea. If it doesn't, we may face a
Jewish-minority government acting to roll back the Jewish return to Judea
- a nightmare for proud Jews loyal to the Jewish People.
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NEW ROADS OPEN JUDEA'S FRONTIER
Judea is home to thousands of pioneering families living in new
towns built near ancient Jewish sites. A chain of hilltop villages
overlooking the Judean Desert begins with the city of Maale Adumim just
east of Jerusalem, continues south through the Etzion Bloc with Kedar, El
David, Tekoa, Maaleh Amos and Metzad, then reaches all the way to Arad
via the South Hebron Hills villages of Maale Hever, Carmel, Maon, Susiya,
and Beit Yatir. In each of these villages, Jews took empty desert-edge
hilltops, turned them green, and filled them with children.
The greatest pioneers may be those living in the South Hebron Hills,
where residents have long been burdened with what was often a two-hour
drive to Jerusalem. With the opening of the new bypass road east of
Hebron, the largely undeveloped region is now only an hour away from
Jerusalem, on a road that no longer passes through heavily populated Arab
areas. Beit Yatir, the southernmost village in the region, is 20 minutes
from Arad, 40 minutes from Beersheva, and now only 45 minutes from the
Etzion Bloc.
More bypass roads are required in Judea, two of which are under
construction. A road being built to bypass Hebron on the west will
become the major road linking Jerusalem and Beersheva, Israel's fourth
largest city. It will also bring the South Hebron Hills villages of Beit
Haggai and Otniel closer to Jerusalem. The Etzion Bloc-Jerusalem road
bypassing Bethlehem on the west is still under construction. A temporary
road was opened but has been plagued by landslides due to hurried
construction and rock-throwing attacks on Jewish cars by Arabs, since it
still adjoins Arab villages. The permanent bypass road awaits the
completion of a bridge across a valley. The supporting pillars for the
bridge have just been completed and work should finish in another year.
Still lacking is a road bypassing Bethlehem on the east to serve the
desert-edge villages in the Tekoa region. Such a road has appeared on
maps for decades as part of the planned Jerusalem beltway.
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BRUCE ADKINS - A FRIEND OF ISRAEL
Bruce Adkins, a fireman and friend of Israel from Portsmouth, Ohio,
was in Israel in early March for the Third Christian Zionist Congress
arranged by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. He had
been collecting firefighting and emergency rescue equipment for two years
to give to the people of Israel and brought three big bags of equipment
to Tekoa on a visit sponsored by the Israel Community Development
Foundation (ICDF), a group which assists Jewish communities in Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza. I watched and listened as he spoke of his deep love
for the people and the Land of Israel and saw how his words were matched
by his deeds.
Bruce came to Tekoa with a group of about twenty other Congress
participants from all over the U.S. We showed them our little town and
our "backyard" -- the Tekoa Canyon and the Judean Desert. One woman told
me that this was her first time in Israel and she already knew that she
had to live here -- somehow. These people are just as incensed as we are
about the present government policy of giving Jewish land away to the
Arabs. They know that our only claim to any of this land, including the
Negev and the Galilee, is based on the Bible and that our claim is
equally valid for Judea and Samaria as it is for Tel Aviv. These friends
of Israel know this in their hearts; they have no doubts and they are
direct, unwavering, and not embarrassed to say it like it is.
Bruce came back to Tekoa the next day on his own to show us how to
use the equipment he had brought. Using our water tower, he and two
young men from Tekoa who had some experience in snappling, practiced the
art of climbing up and down on ropes to rescue people. Bruce is not a
rich man nor is his congregation back home, but he is trying to help us
equip the new Tekoa fire and rescue truck that we are now acquiring. God
bless Bruce and all the other fine people in his group who came to Tekoa
and Israel and who support us in our struggle for the Jewish homeland.
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THE TEKOA RESCUE UNIT
The Tekoa Rescue Unit will primarily serve the eastern half of the
Etzion Bloc - the villages of Tekoa, Tekoa Bet, El David, Kfar Eldad,
Maaleh Amos, and Metzad - as well as hikers in the Judean Desert (with
its steep cliffs and hidden caverns), and as backup for the western
Etzion Bloc area. As a combination rescue and firefighting team, the
Unit will employ a modified GMC rapid intervention vehicle with a 1200
liter water tank, and its crew will be volunteers from the Tekoa area.
While approximately 3/4 of the costs have been covered by the ICDF and
the Etzion Bloc Regional Council, the vehicle still lacks most of the
necessary specialized rescue equipment -- door breaker, jacks, chains,
saws, ladders, stretchers, air tanks, etc. -- that can make all the
difference in lifesaving.
If any of our readers would be interested in helping Bruce organize
support for this project in North America, please contact us at:
amiel2@crosswinds.net and we'll put you in touch.
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In Memoriam
DAVE GOULD: A COUNTRY MUSICIAN FROM LIVERPOOL
For years the Taverners were the prime attraction at Israel's
Jacob's Ladder Music Festival, the leading music event among Israel's
English-speaking community for the past two decades. They were virtuosos
of country, folk, and English-Irish music, and after a warmly-received
prime time set would often return to the stage to close the evening show
in the wee hours with an unforgettable "Goodnight Irene."
The Taverners' base player, who also played banjo and guitar, was
Dave Gould, a rugged, shaggy-haired Liverpudlian with a wide grin and a
passion for playing music. He had learned music in the folk clubs of
Liverpool, knew Paul McCartney from high school, and had an impressive
knowledge of American country music.
Dave made aliya from England in the 1970s with his wife Natalie and
children Daniel and Miriam. A watchmaker by trade, he worked at Military
Industries in Jerusalem before moving to Tekoa in the mid-1980s where he
worked in infrastructure maintenance and gardening for the community. He
was one of those special people who are skilled with their hands, who can
repair their own car engines and videos. Because he worked in Tekoa,
everyone knew him and many benefitted directly from his help and sound
advice. After working by day in Tekoa, we'd often see him loading his
base fiddle into his car and head out to play music somewhere in Israel.
Sometimes he'd have a gig on New Year's Eve in Eilat and his family would
get to join him.
Our two families came to Tekoa about the same time and the Goulds
lived just behind ours in the next row of concrete prefabs that we all
lived in at first for years before moving into permanent homes.
Nighttime guard duty with Dave would pass quickly. He was easy to talk
with and had a wide range of interests, which one evening included an
extensive explanation of the religious significance of Stonehenge and the
Druids. He was always "up," full of stories and jokes, and was famous
for coining new phrases and offering unique perspectives.
Dave Gould died suddenly at home in April 1996 at the age of 56.
Emergency crews that included his friends tried to revive him for an hour
by every means, to no avail.
We buried Dave in the cemetery at Kfar Etzion, next to his mother
Lilly, a former stage entertainer, who had died only three weeks earlier.
Dave's friends from Tekoa were part of the Hevra Kadisha who prepared his
body for burial, dug the grave, and served as pallbearers. Rabbi Avi
Wallfish, his neighbor, spoke of how Dave, who appeared to lead a
basically secular lifestyle, often contributed to his adult class on the
weekly Torah reading. Then we all took turns with shovels to fill in the
grave, as is the custom in these parts.
After the religious ceremony concluded and some had left the
gravesite, a substantial group of his friends remained, those who knew
him through music or through the English-speaking immigrant community of
Tekoa -- and the singing began. Softly, without instruments, his music
friends began with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Then came Dave's
trademark, "I Wish I Was in Liverpool," a few more, and finally
"Goodnight Irene." In between songs, a pint of whiskey appeared and the
Taverners poured a round of drinks. The first drink was poured on the
grave in his honor. Finally, a band member affixed a photograph of Dave
to the pile of rocks on top of the grave. There he stood with his huge
base fiddle and English cap on his head, a broad grin, and his tongue
sticking out at the world. We'll miss him.
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Jewish Heroes:
THE BATTLE OF DEIR YASSIN
Ezra Yachin, known as "Elnakam" in the Lehi underground and a
fighter for Jewish freedom in Israel before the founding of the state,
recently was our guide at one of the most "misunderstood" battle sites of
Israel's War of Independence.
The War of Independence began in November 1947 immediately after the
UN vote in favor of a Jewish state in Israel. The Holocaust had ended
just a few years earlier with the destruction of European Jewry and the
Arabs threatened to do the same to the Jews in Mandatory Palestine.
Local Arabs began attacking Jewish communities and vehicles throughout
the country, aided by Arab soldiers from the surrounding Arab countries
(irregular forces sent across the border before the regular armies of
five Arab states invaded in May 1948).
Jerusalem faced a general Arab attack on every one of its
neighborhoods and the city was totally cut off from the rest of the
country as well. Residents dodged snipers to line up for bread and
water. In the two months before the April 1948 attack on Deir Yassin, a
village at the western edge of the city overlooking the only road to the
coast, some 800 Jews had been killed by Arabs, in many cases with extreme
brutality and mutilation.
It was imperative for the Jews to take the initiative, silence the
Arab guns, and reopen Jerusalem's lifeline. In a joint operation, 70
Etzel and 35 Lehi fighters attacked Deir Yassin with the full knowledge
and support of Jerusalem Hagana commander David Shaltiel. Capture of the
village would also bring some immediate relief from the Arab blockade by
opening up a viable landing strip for small planes inside the hilly city.
Out of concern for civilians, the attacking force gave up the
element of surprise by warning the villagers in Arabic to send away the
women and children before the impending attack. In response, the Arabs
in the village, reinforced by Iraqi soldiers, opened massive fire on the
Jewish fighters. House-to-house fighting went on all day, with half the
Jewish force killed or wounded. Ezra, our guide, showed us where he
stood when he was shot by a uniformed Arab soldier in the village. (He
later lost an eye in the battle for the Old City of Jerusalem.)
The Arabs used Deir Yassin as a base from which to attack Jews and
it became a battleground to save the Jews of Jerusalem. Some women and
children died in the crossfire but there was no intentional massacre. At
the end of the day, the women and children still in the village were
evacuated safely by the Jews to Arab eastern Jerusalem, while the men
were taken prisoner.
The Jewish self-rule government at that time was politically opposed
to Etzel and Lehi and used the fabricated Arab story of a massacre to
besmirch their political rivals -- the Etzel and Lehi, the Jewish heroes
of Deir Yassin. Yet the lie of the "massacre" at Deir Yassin had a
miraculous though unforeseen effect. It changed the image of the Jews in
the eyes of the Arabs, who used to call them "the children of death" for
their restraint in the face of Arab violence. As the story of Deir
Yassin was blown up and embellished, fear of the Jews spread among the
Arabs of Eretz Israel for the first time, with many thousands fleeing the
country.
Deir Yassin marked a significant turning point in the battle for
Jerusalem and was to have a major impact on Israel's success in the War
of Independence. At the end of the tour, Jerusalem-born Ezra Yachin, a
man nearing 70, quietly told us that in spite of his wounds, it was
better to see Israel with one eye than not to see it with two.
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_Elnakam - Story of a Fighter for the Freedom of Israel_ has become
a best-seller in Israel, going through four printings. An English
translation published by Yair Publishing House, Tel Aviv, in 1992 (320
pages) is available for about $15 + postage. For information on how to
order, please e-mail us at Judea Magazine: amiel2@crosswinds.net
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HIKING WITH THE BIBLE
Yad Ben Zvi, a living memorial to the late Israeli President Yitzhak
Ben Zvi, sponsors in-depth guided tours of the Land of Israel. In its
spring tour series, "Hiking With The Bible," at least half of our
stalwart hikers are pensioners. On one recent trip I wondered how many
would go into the caves -- caves used by Jewish freedom fighters against
the Roman occupation of Israel. Almost all did. One woman said that she
used to do this kind of thing when she was in the Hagana. Two of the
women in the group are Holocaust survivors -- one who moved from hiding
place to hiding place in France with her family. Her father was put on a
transport to Auschwitz, had jumped off, got back to his family, and they
escaped to Switzerland. The other woman was in a ghetto in Lithuania.
All of her family was murdered. Benny Begin (Menachem's son) and his
wife were crawling around in the caves, too. At another location, we
read some of David's Psalms and got a hint of what David was feeling
while hiding out from his enemies in the caves.
On the following trip we travelled along the border between the
tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with Jerusalem located right on this
border. This time I had the privilege of sitting next to Eliezer who
fought with the Hagana in the War of Independence. He hikes all over
Israel (we should all be in such good shape), studies the Bible daily,
and is not Orthodox. Eliezer doesn't know why many of his friends don't
want to think about Zionism anymore and why they refuse to read the
Jewish sources which show him why we are here and for what we are
fighting. Eliezer has not given up on the Zionist dream.
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THE PLO ARMY - THE NEW OCCUPATION
Nadav Haetzni
Arabs living in Ramallah, Shechem, Bethlehem, and the other cities
of Judea and Samaria that were turned over to the Palestinian Authority
just a few months ago now find themselves under "a new occupation, much
worse than Israeli rule." The reason is the widespread pattern of
corruption, violence, false arrests, oppression, and self-exaltation of
Arafat's forces.
Three weeks ago in Gaza a high-ranking Palestinian officer was
arrested and jailed for submitting a report to Arafat detailing the use
by government leaders of the security services and public funds for
private purposes.
The examples of this are numerous. Two months ago in Bethlehem two
Christians were arrested, taken to a police station in the Hebron area,
seriously tortured, and forced to renounce claims to land they owned.
Three weeks ago the former mayor of Dura south of Hebron was arrested and
beaten while Palestinian security chief Gibril Rajub took control of some
of his land.
After they took over in Ramallah, PLO soldiers cleared out all of
the vegetable stall owners from the open-air market by force. "Before
they came here we danced and sang because we thought they were coming to
help us. But within a week everything turned upside down. The Israelis
were much better."
In Shechem and Ramallah they speak now of two conquests, the
conquest of the Gazans and of the Tunisians. They came from outside and
have come to be an opposing side, practically the enemy. In Bethlehem
and Tulkarm they identify the soldiers by their accent and call them "the
Iraqis" or "the Egyptians." They look upon them almost like foreign
conquerors.
Daily life now includes norms that the local residents will never
get used to. The officers and soldiers enter stores and restaurants,
eating and taking whatever they please without paying. PLO officers
collect protection money from well-to-do residents. One officer in
Shechem, for example, collected 5,000 dinars a month from a local
cigarette wholesaler.
Hundreds of high-ranking officers from the eight different security
services, whose purposes are unclear to anyone, travel around the cities
in their Mercedes cars, surrounded by bodyguards, their every movement a
sign of trouble. For example, when the commander of Force 17 in the
Bethlehem district decides to have his hair trimmed, his men close off
the entire street in front of the barbershop to all traffic.
Worst of all are those who have their eyes on the local women. They
are used to the norms of other Arab countries and by ignoring the
traditional codes of conduct they have angered the local population.
Stories circulate from everywhere about senior officers trying to seduce
married or single local women. (From _Maariv Shabbat_, 12 Apr 96, p. 8)
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PALESTINIANS THREATEN WAR AFTER TERROR BOMBINGS
Palestinian Authority minister and "political moderate" Nabil Shaath
has threatened a return to the "armed struggle" if Israel does not yield
to Palestinian demands. Speaking at a recent Nablus symposium broadcast
on Palestinian television, Shaath remarked: "If and when Israel will say,
'That's it, we won't talk about Jerusalem, we won't return refugees, we
won't dismantle settlements, and we won't retreat from borders,' then all
the acts of violence will return.
"Except that this time we'll have 30,000 armed Palestinian soldiers
who will operate in areas in which we have unprecedented elements of
freedom."
Speaking in similar terms, Fatah secretary and Arafat spokesman
Marwan Bargouti told the London newspaper _The Independent_ on 12 March
1996 that the Palestinian security forces have been ordered to fire on
Israeli soldiers if they try to enter territory under the PA's control.
"They have already received their orders," he said.
He also said that the Palestinians possess much more weaponry than
the agreement allows and that their armed forces are much larger than
advertised." (_Jerusalem Post_, 15 March 96, p. 4)
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POLL: MOST PALESTINIAN STUDENTS SUPPORT TERROR
A survey of Palestinian students in Samaria shows that 76% support
the continuation of terrorist attacks. The survey was conducted by
Nablus's An-Nahah University student council and its results were
published in the Arabic _An-Nahar_ newspaper in Jerusalem, Israel Radio
reported. More than 84% expressed opposition to steps taken by the
Palestinian Police against Hamas and 86% said there is no difference
between right and left in Israel regarding the Palestinian issue.
(_Jerusalem Post_, 15 March 1996, p. 4)
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STOCKHOLM REVISITED: WHAT ARAFAT SAYS TO THE ARABS
The previous issue of Judea Magazine (4.1) featured a story about
Yasser Arafat's secret meeting with top Arab diplomats in Stockholm's
Grand Hotel on January 30, 1996, where he talked about the destruction of
Israel. Despite a campaign to deny the accuracy of the story, Ehud
Ya'ari, Israeli (government-sponsored) Television's premier Arab Affairs
reporter and commentator, wrote on April 4, 1996, in _The Jerusalem
Report_: "The government of Israel already has, for example, full
confirmation of the accuracy of the words Arafat has been quoted as
saying in his meeting with Arab diplomats in Stockholm. He spoke there,
as reported [by Arutz 7 Radio], about the 'psychological pressure' and
'demographic pressure' that will cause Israel to crumble in the end, and
its Jews to run for cover. For reasons of momentary convenience, the
government chose not to challenge Arafat on his vision of the New Middle
East." (From Yedidya Atlas, Arutz-7 Radio)
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NACHSHON WACHSMAN'S MOTHER ON PEACE AND SURVIVAL
Esther Wachsman
In October 1994, after being kidnapped and held hostage for six days
by Hamas terrorists, our third son Nachshon was brutally murdered. The
entire world held its breath that week, beginning October 9. Jew and
non-Jew alike prayed for Nachshon's safety and release.
We supported the peace process. My husband Yehuda was present at
the signing of the peace treaty with Jordan, just days after our seven-
day period of mourning ended. We sat in the Knesset that same October,
as President Clinton addressed our countrymen, and our family personally.
We yearn for peace - indeed, we pray for peace three times a day,
every day of our lives. Yet terror remains a part of our lives. Our
children go to school each morning, and we don't know if they will come
home safely.
The man who masterminded our son's kidnapping walks the streets of
Gaza freely....This is an obscenity, a mockery, and a travesty of
justice. It is a distortion of the concept of peace. When terrorists
who wantonly spill innocent Jewish blood are turned into heroes and
leaders of the new Palestinian entity, this is not a peace process I can
continue to support....
The term "crimes against humanity" was coined after World War II,
and the Nuremberg trials sentenced the perpetrators of such crimes to
death. Our people have been hunting Nazis for 50 years - yet we stand
helpless in face of the Nazis here in our midst, those whose proclaimed
agenda is to kill Jews - any Jew, anywhere, at any time. That is their
ideology. They are committing crimes against humanity, and we believe
that they, and their commanders and supporters, must be hunted down as
zealously as we have hunted down Nazi war criminals.
Jewish blood must be seen to have value. Is it conceivable that in
our own independent Jewish state we should still be hostage to our
enemies' lust for Jewish blood?...While peace is our ultimate goal, it
cannot be a one-sided race toward national suicide....We are fighting for
our lives as a people, for our survival.
What has become of us, that model Israeli family? What has become
of my dream for the future of my children? One of my sons will never
reach adulthood. Will the others share my dream of living as proud,
strong, free and believing Jews, safe in their land?
I can say sincerely and unequivocally that despite our own personal
pain and anguish, we shall never give up hope. Our people have overcome
unspeakable horrors. Through our deep faith in our right to live in this
God-given land, we shall overcome this black period in our history as
well. Our enemies must be made to understand that we are here to stay
forever - hopefully in peace; but, if necessary, by war. Never again
will we surrender our country and go into exile.
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The writer is the mother of Nachshon Wachsman, slain by Hamas
terrorists on 14 October 1994. (_Jerusalem Post_, 15 March 96, p. 7)
[For more about Nachshon Wachsman, see _Judea Magazine_ 2.6]
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NO ONE REALLY CARES ABOUT THE TRUTH
On March 8, Israel's newspaper of record, _Haaretz_, carried two
stories about Tekoa and the adjacent village of Arab Tekoa. The headline
of one proclaimed: "Eyewitness: Settlers Shot at Palestinian Police
Station," and its text ended with "Eyewitnesses said they saw four
settlers who did the shooting escape through the olive groves toward the
neighboring settlement of Tekoa." In the other story, Salah Taamari, a
newly elected independent member of the Palestinian Authority from the
Bethlehem area who is American-educated and described in the media as the
"Palestinian Kennedy," denounced the incident in Arab Tekoa as an example
of Jewish settlers degrading the Arabs.
The damage is done and no one really cares about the truth. The
true story is that the Palestinian Police from the new Arab Tekoa police
station caught and beat two Beduin youth from the village south of Arab
Tekoa over some offense. In response, the families of the boys took
revenge by shooting out the windows of the police station and at the
police vehicle parked outside. Yes, the police station was shot at, but
then came the classic anti-Semitic spin and even Israeli reporters fell
for it.
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HOLOCAUST PHOTOS ON THE INTERNET
Francois Schmitz in Belgium has created a Website of 37 photographs
documenting the Holocaust. Additional words here are unnecessary. See
for yourself at: http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html
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