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	<description>Israel&#039;s War Against Palestine: Documenting the Military Occupation of Palestinian and Arab Lands</description>
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		<title>Noam Chomsky: Remembering Howard Zinn</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-02-01/noam-chomsky-remembering-howard-zinn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-02-01/noam-chomsky-remembering-howard-zinn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howard Zinn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky remembers Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian, and his close friend of 45 years.  A moving political and personal history of the leading activists of a generation -- people who are nearly gone but will always remain for generations to follow.]]></description>
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		<title>Gideon Levy: God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-29/gideon-levy-god-rules-all-in-2012-israel-even-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-29/gideon-levy-god-rules-all-in-2012-israel-even-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gideon Levy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[permanent occupation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Jenin to Hebron, we are in the West Bank above all because the majority of Israelis believe that it is not only the land of the patriarchs, but that this fact gives us a patrimonial right to sovereignty, to cruelty, to abuse and to occupation - and to hell with the position of the international community and the principles of international law, because, after all, we were chosen from among all other peoples.
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<font color="#C60202"><strong><em>IOA</em></strong></font> <strong>Editor:</strong> From "Chosen People" to the "Promised Land," Zionism, and the occupation: it's a hop, skip, and a jump. Indeed, the belief in the 'promised land' is a prerequisite for Zionism -- yes, even secular Zionism. The 'chosen people' concept goes hand in hand with the 'promised land.']]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Howard Zinn</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-27/remembering-howard-zinn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-27/remembering-howard-zinn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Zinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=26102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the <span style="color: #c60202;"><em>IOA</em></span> Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close friend, Noam Chomsky: "He changed the conscience of a generation. It’s hard to imagine how many young people's lives were touched by his work and his life." This writer one of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Arnove and Noam Chomsky honor Howard Zinn</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-27/anthony-arnove-and-noam-chomsky-honor-howard-zinn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-27/anthony-arnove-and-noam-chomsky-honor-howard-zinn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A presentation at SUNY New Paltz entitled "Honoring Howard Zinn: An Historian Who Made History," given on 4 December 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Ben White: &#8220;Anti-Semitism&#8221; smear is about targeting MK Haneen Zoabi, even though it uses me</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-26/ben-white-anti-semitism-smear-is-about-targeting-mk-haneen-zoabi-even-though-it-uses-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-26/ben-white-anti-semitism-smear-is-about-targeting-mk-haneen-zoabi-even-though-it-uses-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apartheid]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the focus on my new book and writing, this was not about me; it is all about targeting a Palestinian citizen who is determined to use the legal means available to her in order to fight for her people - whether they are Israeli citizens, inside the Occupied Territories, or expelled refugees.]]></description>
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		<title>Journalist Chris Hedges sues Obama Admin over indefinite detention of US citizens approved in NDAA (video)</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-23/journalist-chris-hedges-sues-obama-admin-over-indefinite-detention-of-us-citizens-approved-in-ndaa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-23/journalist-chris-hedges-sues-obama-admin-over-indefinite-detention-of-us-citizens-approved-in-ndaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes controversial provisions authorizing the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world, without charge or trial. Sections of the bill are written so broadly that critics say they could encompass journalists who report on terror-related issues, such as Hedges, for supporting enemy forces. “It’s clearly unconstitutional,” Hedges says of the bill. “It is a huge and egregious assault against our democracy. It overturns over 200 years of law, which has kept the military out of domestic policing.”]]></description>
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		<title>Amira Hass: The VIPs&#8217; hush money</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-18/amira-hass-the-vips-hush-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-18/amira-hass-the-vips-hush-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amira Hass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the interpretation that this was an intentional humiliation of Abbas, for once it's actually believable that this was a mere technical error. Humiliation is part of the system's DNA, and the clerks who implement the system imbibe the techniques of humiliation from the day they enter the army - until they view them as immutable laws of nature.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Cook: Welcome to the world’s first bunker state</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-18/jonathan-cook-welcome-to-the-worlds-first-bunker-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-18/jonathan-cook-welcome-to-the-worlds-first-bunker-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Cook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ehud Barak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic cleansing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new infiltration law is the latest in a set of policies fortifying Israel's status as the world's first "bunker state"- and one designed to be as ethnically pure as possible. The concept was expressed most famously by an earlier prime minister, Ehud Barak, now the defense minister, who called Israel "a villa in the jungle," relegating the country's neighbours to the status of wild animals.]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Hedges: Why I’m suing Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-17/chris-hedges-why-im-suing-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-17/chris-hedges-why-im-suing-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fear is the psychological weapon of choice for totalitarian systems of power. Make the people afraid. Get them to surrender their rights in the name of national security. And then finish off the few who aren’t afraid enough. If this law is not revoked we will be no different from any sordid military dictatorship. Its implementation will be a huge leap forward for the corporate oligarchs who plan to continue to plunder the nation and use state and military security to cow the population into submission.]]></description>
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		<title>Yitzhak Laor: Israeli Arabs have never been equal before the law</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-17/yitzhak-laor-israeli-arabs-have-never-been-equal-before-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-17/yitzhak-laor-israeli-arabs-have-never-been-equal-before-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yitzhak Laor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Racists sitting in the stands at soccer games who yell "Death to Arabs" have never ripped a mother away from her children. But Justice Asher Dan Grunis and his friends have rendered such expulsions kosher, and the representatives of Israel's Arab citizens will now have to bring the issue to the international community.]]></description>
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		<title>Haneen Zoabi in IOA interview: Challenge Zionism; demand equality and co-existence</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-14/ioa-interview-with-haneen-zoabi-challenge-zionism-demand-equality-and-co-existence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-14/ioa-interview-with-haneen-zoabi-challenge-zionism-demand-equality-and-co-existence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Cook]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian Knesset member Haneen Zoabi is known for her fierce opposition to Zionism, to the concept of Israel as a Jewish state which she sees as inherently racist and unjust, and to the Israeli occupation.  Instead, she envisions Arab-Jewish co-existence in Israel/Palestine, based on justice and equality, under a state for all its citizens. She also advocates replacing the Israeli occupation by a Palestinian state, and protecting the rights of Palestinian refugees.
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<strong>Jonathan Cook</strong> and the <strong><span style="color: #c60202;"><em>IOA</em></span> Editor</strong> sat with Haneen Zoabi at her Nazareth home in mid-December 2011 for an extended interview covering these issues and much more.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Cook: EU report on Israel &#8211; saving the two-state solution?</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-14/jonathan-cook-eu-report-on-israel-saving-the-two-state-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-14/jonathan-cook-eu-report-on-israel-saving-the-two-state-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using phrases that imply Israel is conducting a policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Area C, the report notes the Palestinian population has shrunk dramatically to only 150,000, compared to as many as twice that number in the Jordan Valley alone in 1967. The Jewish population in the settlements, meanwhile, has grown to 310,000, tripling in less than 20 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Lia Tarachansky: Israel &#8211; as living conditions deteriorate, more money to army</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-13/lia-tarachansky-israel-living-conditions-deteriorate-more-money-to-army/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-13/lia-tarachansky-israel-living-conditions-deteriorate-more-money-to-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Tarachansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, Israelis rose up in a mass movement inspired by the regional protests of the Arab Spring. Starting on Rothschild Boulevard, one of tel Aviv's wealthiest neighborhoods, tent cities sprung up throughout the country, and Israelis poured to the streets to demonstrate. But in September, as quickly as the tent cities popped up, they disappeared. The protests stopped, and in a sweeping move, the government demolished dozens of tent cities throughout the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Lia Tarachansky: Women fight religious segregation in Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-03/lia-tarachansky-women-fight-religious-segregation-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-03/lia-tarachansky-women-fight-religious-segregation-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Tarachansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On New Year’s Eve, thousands of Ultra Orthodox men came out in protest of what they called religious prosecution. In recent weeks, tensions in Israel between religious and secular Jews escalated after Israel’s main TV news, Channel 2, filed a report showing Ultra Orthodox men in the city of Beit Shemesh attacking an 8-year old Orthodox girl for not dressing modestly enough. The report sparked nation-wide outrage and brought thousands to Beit Shemesh in protest.]]></description>
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		<title>Amira Hass: On anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember IDF soldiers who destroyed Palestinian families</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-02/amira-hass-on-anniversary-of-gaza-war-we-will-remember-idf-soldiers-who-destroyed-palestinian-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-02/amira-hass-on-anniversary-of-gaza-war-we-will-remember-idf-soldiers-who-destroyed-palestinian-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amira Hass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not fair that the officer who then served as GOC Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, will be the only one remembered on this anniversary. Indeed, the list of fighters who should be mentioned and recalled is long.]]></description>
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		<title>Rashid Khalidi: A reset for US policy? Not now, but watch the base</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-12-26/rashid-khalidi-a-reset-for-us-policy-not-now-but-watch-the-base/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this wide-ranging interview, Rashid Khalidi has some harsh words for President Barack Obama, describing his UN speech in September as the worst ever by an American president. Khalidi also reviews the way in which US policy toward the conflict was transformed over decades, and discusses why AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is far more effective today than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. Although he sees no hope at present for a just US policy, this could change if public opinion – which is much more enlightened than that of U.S. policy makers – is expressed through the media and at the political level.]]></description>
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		<title>Lia Tarachansky: Israeli tree campaign &#8220;Judaizes&#8221; expropriated land</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-12-26/lia-tarachansky-israeli-tree-campaign-judaizes-expropriated-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Tarachansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish National Fund (JNF), that ownes 13% of Israeli lands, forbids the sale or lease of its lands to any but Jewish owners. Many are now joining a global campaign against this policy whose roots come from expropriated Palestinian Land. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky looks at the history of JNF land acquisition from the land taken from 1948 refugees in the village of Ma'alul, 1967 refugees on whose land Canada Park was built, and the Bedouins of Al Araqib on whose land the JNF is attempting to build the Ambassador's Forest.
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<font color="#C60202"><strong><em>IOA</em></strong></font> <strong>Editor:</strong> An outstanding report by Lia Tarachansky where she puts current events in their historic, political, institutional, and legal context:  How the repeated destruction of the Beduin village of al-Araqib fits in the Palestinian history of the Nakba, post-1948 confiscation of Palestinian lands within Israel, and the destruction of the Latroun villages after the 1967 War -- all with the full involvement of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a tax-exempt organization in the US.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Cook: Next year in Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-12-26/jonathan-cook-next-year-in-jerusalem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has been only too happy to perform a pointless tango with the Palestinians on the diplomatic front while it encouraged its settlers to entrench their hold on the West Bank and East Jerusalem, gutting any chance of the Palestinian state that was ostensibly being negotiated.]]></description>
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		<title>An evening with Lia Tarachansky</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-12-26/an-evening-with-lia-tarachansky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRNN Senior Editor, Paul Jay, interviews Lia Tarachansky, The Real News' correspondent in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. They are then joined by a panel, discussing current affairs in the region, the media, and TRNN's coverage. Joining the panel are Shir Hever, Robert Naiman, Samah Sabawi, Ronnie Barkan, and Peter Larson.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Cook: Israel’s new house rules &#8211; deepening authoritarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-12-25/jonathan-cook-israel%e2%80%99s-new-house-rules-deepening-authoritarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Yitzhak Laor:</strong> “This bill truly intends to create a democracy for Jews only. If it were passed, no Arab – whether resident of the territories or Israeli citizen – would have access to the law.”]]></description>
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