“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My Name will be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My Name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My Name will be great among the Gentiles,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Malachi 1: 11)
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Rabbi Yehudah Glick—We Will Continue To Call Upon Jews to Visit the Temple Mount:
It’s hard to imagine a single Israeli paper would be willing to publish an op-ed blaming the Pride Parade participants for the murder of Shira Banki (of blessed memory). It could easily be argued that with the heightened sensitivities of Jerusalem, and the potentially explosive situation, holding a Pride Parade in the city’s streets amounts to provocation, and the organizers of the event cannot wash their hands of the young girl’s death.
Why is it that when discussing the rights of Gay Pride Parade marchers we can wholeheartedly and unhesitatingly blame the killer himself (and in the extreme, perhaps the home in which he was raised), but when it comes to the rights of Jews to visit the Temple Mount, it is perfectly acceptable to incite violence against the visitors?
The truth must be told, for it is clear as day, and it must be told without hiding behind various “politically correct” excuses: the self-serving Arab propaganda succeeds again and again, like the pig which holds out its split hooves to prove how kosher it is, in convincing the general public of a lie in which there is not a grain of truth.
The fight for human rights on the Temple Mount is legitimate and justified like no other. There is no other place in the world where an individual would be arrested on suspicion of swaying and moving his lips. The discrimination against anyone who is not Muslim on the Temple Mount cries out to the heavens.
This battle is being conducted in a manner appropriate for members of the public in a democratic country, utilizing the tools legally at the disposal of citizens: the courts, the media, including social media, the political arena, public opinion, public protest and so on. There is nothing more legitimate in a free country than to work towards altering the status quo when done through legal means.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Below is a short video of Rabbi Glick that I took last summer in the Old City. Katie and I know several shortcuts that help us navigate quickly and easily through the Old City, and Rabbi Glick knows them, too. We were behind him and an interview team for awhile on one of our jaunts.
The streets are narrow, but eventually, we were able to pass them. We stopped in front of Hurva synagogue.
That’s normal for Katie and me. It was early in the morning—probably about 8:00. You can tell because there is no activity in front of the synagogue. It’s a busy place most of the day, but early in the morning, it’s not congested.
While we were sitting, the rabbi walked right in front of us, so I took the video. You can’t see them in the video, but the rabbi’s security team was sitting beside us. We had a nice conversation with them while we waited and watched. What they told us may surprise you.
Most people know that Rabbi Glick was shot 4 times by a Palestinian terrorist about 2 years ago. He survived, obviously, and now whenever he visits the Old City, he has armed guards. He also wears a bulletproof vest. You can see its outline if you look closely.
Why is Rabbi Glick a target for terrorists?
It’s because he’s urging the Israeli people and Jewish people in general to take Yahweh’s promises seriously. I think he’s spot on. That’s exactly what they should do.
It may seem counterintuitive to follow Yahweh, but it’s always the right thing to do. Elijah abandoned “logic” and followed Yahweh. So did David and Gideon. Others should join them—many others.
Without Yahweh, Israel can’t win. With Yahweh, Israel can’t lose. So then, the Israeli people need to decide who they will follow.
I like the way Joshua said it:
“If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.” (Joshua 24: 15)
As for Katie and me, we’ll take Yahweh every day of the week and twice on the Sabbath.
And to those friends who keep telling me that we’re taking a chance every time we visit Israel, I’ll say this: we never feel safer than when we’re in Yahweh’s holy city.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh. Both of them explain the importance of God’s Name.
The website is loaded with factual information that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yahweh is our Savior and that the Messiah is Yahweh.
I hope you will take a few minutes and explore the website. I also hope you will share it with your friends and family.
It’s time for believers to tell the world about our God by His Name—Yahweh.
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Michael Satlow—There Was a Temple on the Temple Mount:
The recent New York Times article “Historical Certainty Proves Elusive at Jerusalem’s Holiest Place” claims that there is no definitive evidence that the two ancient Jewish temples stood on the present day Temple Mount. The article strongly implies that this remains a live historical controversy. Did a Jewish temple stand on the present day Temple Mount?
Yes. This is as historically certain a fact as one can get in the study of ancient history. The Temple Mount was built by Herod beginning at the end of the first century BCE – the Western Wall is the retaining wall of that reshaping of the natural hill – and on top of it were a number of structures that belonged to the Jewish temple. It is true that we do not know precisely where on the Temple Mount those structures stood, but there is no question that they stood there.
SnyderTalk Comment: See “Scholars Debunk Times Article on Temple Mount”.
Mohammed Haruna—Erdogan and Turkey’s future:
Turkey, as Daily Trust observed in its editorial of last Thursday, has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons – well, almost all. And the principal culprit apparently is no other than its current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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He was voted as the country’s ceremonial president last year after he stepped down as party leader in what many must have presumed was a voluntary retirement and glorious exit from a successful career in partisan politics. Events since then have proved such presumptions completely wrong.
For, far from being satisfied with playing the ceremonial role of a father-figure constitutionally assigned to the president, Erdogan seemed to have become obsessed with transforming himself into the first executive civilian president of his country. Predictably this has led to his falling out with the opposition elements whose alliance made his successes possible.
One of the first signs of trouble for the man was a massive demonstration in Gezi Park, in Istanbul, two years ago against his decision to build a grandiose presidential palace which many of his countrymen saw as an ego trip and the despoliation of the park’s beauty. More serious, however, was the eruption of a 100 billion US dollar corruption scandal, also in 2013, in which he, some of his ministers and three of his sons were implicated.
His reaction to the scandal has been to clamp on the media for exposing the allegations. Journalists have been detained, tried and locked up on trumped up charges and a law is being contemplated to give government powers to block “undesirable” blogs. There has also been a ban on Twitter and threats to ban Facebook and YouTube.
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Daily Trust’s editorial in question entitled “As Erdogan clamps down on Turkey media” was concerned essentially with media freedom in the country. “Journalism,” it said, “is increasingly becoming dangerous in Turkey as the government clamps down on the media covering stories it wants ignored through threats, raids, arrests and deportation.”
What is at stake here is much more than media freedom. Beyond media freedom, what is also at stake is the future prospect of a country which, until last year, stood out as proof positive that Islam, on the one hand, and democracy and the rule of law, on the other, are not necessarily mutually incompatible, as many in the West and Islamist extremists want the world to believe.
SnyderTalk Comment: This is a realistic depiction of the real Erdogan. The Turkish people have a serious problem on their hands. So do the rest of us because of Erdogan’s shenanigans in the Middle East.
Erdogan and Barack Obama are largely responsible for inciting the violence taking place in the Middle East right now. They are not solely responsible, but they deserve the lion’s share of the blame because they lit the fire.
Obama started earning his “street creds” with the Islamist terrorist world during a 2009 speech in Cairo. Erdogan solidified his position with them by orchestrating the ill-fated Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010.
Ironically, Obama and Erdogan and the countries they represent have become targets of the terrorists they inspired.
Playing with rattle snakes is risky business. That’s something Obama and Erdogan should have known. The Islamist storm they unleashed is far from over. In fact, it’s just getting started.
Obama and Erdogan are getting what they deserve. Regrettably, so are we because we elected them. What the Turkish and American people do next is crucial.
The dates have been set already. For Turks, it’s November 1, 2015. For Americans, it’s November 8, 2016.
Clive Irving—Why There Will Be Another MH17:
Beyond the gruesome details of the missile strike that took down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 people, lies a scandal: why were 160 commercial flights flying over the eastern Ukraine on that day?
The Dutch investigators who delivered an exemplary report on the disaster reveal an extraordinary failure by the world’s airline industry to either understand or respond to the kind of warfare now raging beneath some of the busiest international air corridors. In their words:
“Not a single state or international organization explicitly warned of any risks to civil aviation and not a single state prohibited its airlines from using the airspace over the area or imposed other restrictions.”
SnyderTalk Comment: There is a lesson in this for all of us. The whole world is coming unglued.
It’s not just Ukraine or Israel or Iran or Iraq or Syria. It’s the U.S. and Europe and Russia and China as well.
You can’t run and you can’t hide. The war is picking up steam, and it’s coming to all of us eventually one way or another. It’s just a matter of time.
What we do next matters a lot.
The Guardian—Hillary Clinton: ‘It’s time the entire country stood up to the NRA’–video:
SnyderTalk Comment: I’ll begin by quoting Mrs. Clinton—“We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence. This has gone on too long, and it’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA.”
Democrat Party loyalists and Clinton apologists are jumping for joy because she’s spouting the one-liners they want to hear, but her logic is fatally flawed. Here’s why:
- The people in this country lost to gun violence are not casualties of law-abiding gun owners who join the NRA. They are victims of criminals, terrorists, and mentally deranged people who are much more likely to be Democrats than NRA members. I’m not joking, and I’m not and have never been a member of the NRA.
- Most tragic deaths resulting from gun violence in the U.S. occur in places where extreme gun restrictions already exist. They are places like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, Oakland, Memphis, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and New York. The most violent places in the U.S. tend to have one thing in common. They are run by Democrats, and they have been run by Democrats for a very long time with only occasional respites.
Consider this question: why does most of the gun violence that we see on television take place in cities with stringent gun restrictions and in “Gun Free Zones”—places like schools and churches?
The answer is simple, but that doesn’t mean Democrats can understand it. Law-abiding citizens obey the law. They don’t carry guns into those places. Criminals, terrorists, and insane people don’t give a damn about the law. They take guns wherever they want. They prefer cities with gun restrictions and “Gun Free Zones” because they know they will encounter little or no resistance.
Democrat logic brought us to where we are. The quality of thinking that got us here won’t get us out of here.
If Democrats were truthful, which they are not, they would tell us that they want to outlaw private gun ownership completely. In their perfect world viewed through rose-colored glasses, only the government would have guns. That was the strategy Hitler used to disarm the German people when he took the reins of power. It’s the strategy that all despots use to disarm the populace so they can operate with impunity.
This is my conclusion, and I’m not kidding: if voters are serious about dealing with gun violence, they should stop electing Democrats and start electing rational people. For the record, I have never been a Republican, but I used to be a Democrat.
John Bolton—Putin Unleashed:
By any objective measure, Russia has made a strategic decision to challenge America for dominance in the Middle East. Despite depressed global oil prices and economic sanctions intended to curb his Ukraine adventurism, Vladimir Putin is pursuing an undisguised effort to expand Moscow’s military power, political heft, and economic influence in a region long under Washington’s sway. Barack Obama has made no effective response, and none seems in prospect. The recent Obama-Putin meeting at the United Nations did not change that underlying reality.
At a minimum, Russia’s Middle East actions today uncannily resemble Scoop Jackson’s characterization of the Soviet Union as an “opportunistic hotel burglar who walks down the corridors trying all the door handles to see which door is open.” The Kremlin is probing for U.S. weaknesses, meddling across the region in ways unprecedented since Anwar Sadat expelled Soviet military advisers in the 1970s, reversed Egypt’s global orientation, and thereby ultimately enabled the Camp David accords with Israel.
Russia is not pursuing its objectives alone. It is strengthening allies and proxies such as Syria and Iran that regularly assist Moscow or undertake parallel, reinforcing initiatives to advance their own agendas. The ongoing, perhaps accelerating, region-wide deterioration of state structures facilitates Moscow’s assertiveness.
Dmitri Trenin—Putin’s Syria Gambit Aims at Something Bigger Than Syria:
A quarter-century after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia is again at war in a Muslim country outside of the perimeter of its historical empire. Moscow’s intervention in Syria, however, is very different from its past uses of military power, marked by overland invasions and occupations. It is also happening in a regional environment which is new: a Middle East where outside powers, including the United States, are playing a much less dominant role than ever in the last 100 years; and non-state actors like IS are threatening to upend the system of states created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Syria has become, at least for now, Russia’s first U.S.-style war. Russian military aircraft are bombing the enemy from high above, plus the Russian navy is launching cruise missiles from a thousand miles away. The enemy, again at least for now, has no chance to hit back at the Russians on the battlefield. The division of labor within the Moscow-led coalition provides for the ground troops in Syria to be furnished by Damascus, Tehran, and Hezbollah. Russian military personnel in Syria—other than advisers or technicians—have the mission of supporting and if need be protecting the Russian Air Force contingent and the naval facility in Tartus. Conceivably, Russia may employ Special Forces (Spetsnaz), airborne or marine units for securing, capturing or rescuing critical assets. However, Putin is adamant that full-scale involvement in the Syrian war is to be avoided, and regular Russian ground forces—or Chechen forces—do not appear to be part of the plan.
What are the reasons for Russia’s still-limited but clearly much deeper involvement in Syria? What are Moscow’s precise goals and objectives, strategies and tactics? What are the broader implications of its direct military participation in the conflict? And what does Russia’s raising of its profile in the Middle East mean for its already confrontational relations with the United States?
Phyllis Chesler—Where’s the feminist outrage over ISIS’s savage treatment of women?:
Why would any woman who lives in a free society in the West choose to live under ISIS’s barbaric tyranny? Doesn’t she know that Syrian and Iraqi women (Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Kurds) are desperate to flee the region, that they fear being captured, forcibly married, forcibly converted to Islam—or tortured as sex slaves?
I ask these questions because the Washington Post is currently running an in-depth look at “Life in the ‘Islamic State.’” Part two of the multi-part series focuses on women. The report is chilling and difficult to read.
The Post’s series reminds us that not all women are treated the same way under the men in charge of ISIS. — There are wives and then there are literally sex slaves.
Tragically, we already know the fate of the lucky “wives.” They lead isolated lives spent mostly indoors without electricity or clean water. They wear heavy head-face-and-body covering in 100 degree weather–and they are monitored, harassed, and punished by a sadistic all-female brigade if their burqa slips. According to the Post they join “an institutionalized, near-assembly-line system to provide fighters with sex and children. When their (arranged marriage) husbands are killed, they are expected to celebrate their ‘martyrdom’ and quickly marry other fighters.”
The sex slaves are not even this “lucky.” The mainly Yazidi and Christian girls and women who are forced into sex slavery are raped up to thirty times a day by different men. They are forced to perform pornography-inspired acts which terrify and injure them. As members of a shame-and-honor tribal culture, most believe that they no longer deserve to live. Many attempt suicide; some succeed. Many are sold, over and over again—and trafficked to Saudi Arabia or Northern Africa.
Michael Curtis—End the Sound of Silence on Palestinian Terrorism:
Hello darkness. The whole world, except perhaps the venerable Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the author Alice Walker, and the UN Human Rights Council, recognize that the State of Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. No further evidence of this is required than the vitriolic attack on Israel by a female Arab member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Even the anti-Israeli lobbies, with their vilification of Israel as an apartheid state, must now be conscious of the Palestinian false subtleties and deliberate distortions of reality.
The vicious attack on Israel made on October 9, 2015 came from the Israeli-Arab Haneen Zoabi, a member of the United Arab List in the Knesset. The speech was not only a perversion of reality and one unbecoming from a member of the Knesset, even one who has been a constant critic of all Israel actions. More important, it was an incendiary incitement to conflict, even civil war, and implicitly a plea for Palestinians to commit terrorist acts.
Zoabi, perhaps in whimsy or fantasy, praised the hundreds of thousands who she said will go up to the Al Aqsa Mosque in order to stand in the face of the Israeli plot for the blood of the residents of East Jerusalem. She asserted that individual terrorist attacks against Israel were insufficient, and that hundreds of thousands must go out to support these incidents that will turn into an intifada, the third Palestinian intifada of violence and terrorism. Increasing Palestinian physical violence and terrorist attacks have alternated with inflammatory rhetoric and hostile demonstrations.
Douglas Murray—The “Islamic Inquisition” and the Blasphemy Police:
- There is a small but undeniable number who are willing to kill and sometimes die in the cause of imposing their idea of blasphemy on non-Muslims around the world.
- The editors signalled that they had had enough of the threats and enough of the danger. They censored themselves.
- Today there might be thousands of people willing to publish cartoons of Mohammed on their Twitter accounts, but most of them hide behind aliases and complain about the cowardice of others.
- Our societies like to think that terrorism and intimidation do not work. They do — or can — but only if we let them.
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Netanyahu: Israel will settle scores with those killing civilians
‘Never Again’ means standing with Israel
SnyderTalk Comment: I really like Ben Carson.
Blogger campaigns to make Israel’s voice heard in NY Times
Israel embassy in Berlin blasts German media for slanted terror coverage
Israeli settlements shut their gates to Palestinian workers in light of violence
PICTURES: Palestinian rioter sets him self ablaze during clashes with IDF
Israel to revoke residency status of east Jerusalem Palestinians involved in violence
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Stabbing Attack at Jerusalem Central Bus Station
MK Derides Kerry’s ‘Irrational’ Linkage of Terror, ‘Settlements’
New Ambassador Challenges UN Chief: Denounce PA Incitement
Watch: Pisgat Ze’ev Stabbing Captured in Vivid CCTV Footage
Rami Levy Removes Knives from Store Shelves
Islamist Sheikh Raed Salah Could Face Jail
Prof: If Israel is Jewish, Children Won’t Be Safe
‘The West Gives Legitimacy to Terror Against Jews’
Stabbing Thwarted in Jerusalem’s Old City
Proposal: Strengthen Security in Synagogues
Watch: Terrorist Stabs Commuters in Ra’anana
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Israel deploys hundreds of soldiers in Jerusalem
‘Jerusalem terrorists planned to hijack bus,’ says witness
Police given authority to impose East Jerusalem closures
Cabinet steps up security measures as PM vows to defeat terror wave
What do you do when the people trying to kill you live around the block?
As knife-wielders are subdued, questions on ‘shoot first, ask later’
SnyderTalk Comment: “Shoot first, ask later” is vigilante justice. It’s what happens when governments fail to do their most basic job—protecting the security of their citizens. It’s coming to the U.S. for the same reason.
I’m not prophesying. I’m connecting the dots.
Palestinians open fire at IDF vehicle near Gaza
Palestinian killed, another hurt by IDF fire in West Bank
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Israel seals off East Jerusalem in attempt to quell violence
Israeli troops deployed to assist police after attacks
Kerry to visit Mideast in bid to calm Palestinian-Israeli tensions
Planned Parenthood stops accepting payment for fetal tissue used for research
SnyderTalk Comment: They stopped accepting payment for political reasons and to protect a source of funds—U.S. taxpayers, but they will continue their horrific practices. This is a crime, and it should be treated as such.
Philippine Islamists Release Video of Foreign Hostages
Islamic State advances over wide swaths of Aleppo, activists report
UNRWA Teachers Continue Glorifying Palestinian Terror on Facebook, Despite Complaints
The Sweet Young Terrorist in The Independent and the Media’s Refusal to Report on Incitement
Israeli politician says Yemen’s last Jews need help to get out
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Iran’s Parliament Approves Nuclear Deal
Obama will be the only person sticking to Iran deal
Russia’s New Mega-Missile Stuns the Globe
Turkey mourns after worst terrorist attack in its modern history
Insurgents Shell Russian Embassy in Damascus
The many holy wars ripping Syria apart
Report: U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels may have committed war crimes in Syria
US planes air drop ammunition to Syrian rebel groups
After nuclear deal, Japan seeks to strengthen economic ties with Iran
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Exodus 26
11 “You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit. 12 The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle. 13 The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other, to cover it. 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Is it legalistic to pay too much attention to God’s Name?
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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