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The end of Christian Zionism, or just a facelift?
thelibertyhour.com Dec 17, 2009
| Is Abraham Part of the History of a New Faith?
Carlson answers Michelle Dec 23, 2009
| Christian Zionism on the Skids; Rick Warren to the Rescue?
Charles E. Carlson Dec 11, 2009
Pew foundation’s lengthy interview with Pastor Rick Warren, The Future of Evangelicalism tells much about Warren, in his own words.*
Christ following is a faith based on Jesus' words. Rick Warren, now famous pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest California, is religious, but based on his Pew Forum responses it is unclear whether he is a Christ follower or less aggressive shade of Christian Zionist.
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| "Thanksgiving Prayer"
Advisors and Director Nov 25, 2009
At Thanksgiving, a truly American holiday, we thank God for a few good men (and women) who help We Hold These Truths as volunteers and those who help pay our bills. In all of history it has been up to the few. May God bless you, and inspire you.
Chuck Carlson and Advisers
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| Scripture Plucking to Justify Land Theft and Murder
Charles E. Carlson Nov 24, 2009
Henry Herskovitz, a man worthy of respect for founding the Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends, and for faithfully leading demonstrations for some six years in front of a synagogue in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was himself once a member, writes:
Hi Chuck,
I need it to help rebut those who bring up the quote given by the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor:
"This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I will give it to your offspring." [Deuteronomy 34:4]
Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends
http://a2vigil.org/
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| How Are We Doing Mom?
After Six Years of Vigils in Front of Christian Zionist Churches
Charles E. Carlson Nov 17, 2009
“A Night to Honor Israel” at Symphony Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, may have been our best Project Strait Gate Vigil ever. Many of the now almost 65 efforts stand out in particular ways ... this one was special because it was the easiest vigil we ever did.
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| Report on Strait Gate Vigil at Hagee's Night to Honor Israel, Phoenix
Editor Nov 03, 2009
WHTT held its sixth Project Strait Gate Vigil at Christians United For Israel's Night To Honor Israel, this time in front of the Phoenix Symphony Hall on Oct. 18, 2009. Participants from We Hold These Truths and friends confronted those in attendance with Biblical and moral challenges to their beliefs.
--Most Christian Zionists, including John Hagee and many attendees, believe that: the modern State of Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy; that war is a necessary part of their religion leading to a second conflict in Israel between Jesus himself and the Jewish Pharisees of today; that “born again Christians” are excused by God for bloodshed resulting from the support of Israel's occupation of Palestine and the US government's warring in the Middle East; and that it is a sin for “Christians” to fail to support Israel in every way possible.
---For an overview of this Vigil please visit our new You Tube site to see the 2 part video at: http://www.youtube.com/whttdotorg#p/a/u/0/m8q0TKHbEck
---For information about how you can start a team Vigil for Peace With Justice, go to Project Strait Gate or call our office.
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| PROTEST: John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel's (CUFI),
“NIGHT TO HONOR ISRAEL”
Project Strait Gate Team Oct 12, 2009
"Yes: I will be there": call 480 947 3329---
A Vigil for Peace and Justice,
John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel's (CUFI),
“NIGHT TO HONOR ISRAEL”
4:00 PM-6:30 PM, October 18, 2009
Phoenix Symphony Hall,
225 E. Adams St, Phoenix, AZ
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| The Unacceptable Cost of Judeo-Christianity; Its Legacy of Pain
Charles E. Carlson Oct 05, 2009
Far and near, high and clear,
Hark to the call of War.Over the gorse and the golden dells,Ringing and swinging the clamorous bells,Praying and saying of wild farewells:War! War! War!
(Robert W. Service, 1918)
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| The Zionist, Messianic-Christian Network Inside Evangelical Churches: Walid Shoebat, His Clones and Enablers
Charles E Carlson Sep 23, 2009
Walid Shoebat’s words are artful and inflammatory…each phrase seems designed to incite fear of, and therefore hatred for Muslims. Chosen People Ministries’ local branch inside Scottsdale Bible Church sponsored Shoebat’s appearance, and took up a collection to pay his substantial honorarium. A Chosen People Ministries spokesman set the tone with a dramatic, Islam did it, introduction of its Day 911 Commemorative Service.
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| The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion
Hersham Tillawi Sep 13, 2009
I came from a country occupied militarily by Israel to the land of “the free and the brave” only to find out it too was occupied politically by Israel. Hersham Tillawi, PhD
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| A Quiet Vigil for Peace and Justice
Charles Carlson Sep 10, 2009
PRESS
RELEASE:
Contact:
Charles E. Carlson, 602 741 4650
A Quiet Vigil for Peace and Justice
On
the public streets outside Scottsdale Bible Church:
Date:
September 11, 2009
Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Place: Scottsdale Bible Church
Address: 7601 East Shea Blvd.
Scottsdale,
AZ, 85260
(Corner
of Miller Street and Shea Blvd.)
Sponsor: We Hold These Truths,
www.whtt.org
480 947 3329; Cell 602-741-4650
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| Who is Walid Shoebat
Charles E. Carlson Sep 01, 2009
Scottsdale Bible Church will open its 2500 seat facility for a “Keynote Speech" by Walid Shoebat, arranged by Chosen People Ministries. The church lists the event on its Calendar as “Day911 Commemorative Memorial Service.” Walid Shoebat is in our experience, a trained businessman-propagandist for the Israeli government, much like John Hagee with a added honorary degree in "Terrorism".
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| Petition to Defend Press Freedom, Investigate Possible Israeli War Crimes
Michelle J. Kinnucan Aug 31, 2009
Petition text: As people deeply concerned with human rights, we believe it is essential to listen respectfully when many members of a population speak about war crimes committed against them. Therefore, we support Donald Boström and the editor and publisher of Aftonbladet in their decision to publish "Our sons plundered for their organs."
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| Christians and Muslims ... Worst and Best
Brian McLarren Aug 29, 2009
Brian writes:
To my Christian friends: would you agree with this statement?
---Christianity was not intended to create a chosen people, fostering exclusive claims for themselves, while looking down upon the rest of humanity like a sea of untouchables or regarding the animate and inanimate worlds around them as fields readied for wanton exploitation. Wherever Christians find themselves, they are called upon to be actively and positively engaged as vanguards of mercy, welfare, and well-being. ....
(Go here to learn who wrote it) http://whtt.org/index.php?id=PhariseeWatch&cat=
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| Three Pastors with Differing Motives Condemn the Philistines to Occupation
Charles E. Carlson Aug 25, 2009
Why Pastor RA supports Mike Huck-wannabe-president and Coral Ridge Ministries’ anti-Islamic fund raiser.
We quote Pastor RA anonymously as a courtesy, still hoping to make a friend of him. All three are flagrant in ignoring Jesus’ words and commands in order to follow their respective ambitions. It is likely that only Pastor RA believes the line he espouses; we think he is the victim of a bad book. Those he defends have long ago left the book behind in search of power and money.
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| Gold, the Central Bankers, and High Cost of a Pass Receiver
Charles E. Carlson Aug 08, 2009
What is the significance of the agreement among 19 European “Central Bankers” to limit gold sales to 400 tons per year and not more than 2000 tons in five years?
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| ISRAEL’S CHERISHED FRIENDS
Gordon Ginn, Ph.D. Aug 01, 2009
Dispensationalism cuts the ground from under New Testament teachings, but its advocates fail to grasp either the concept or the significance of the matter. It is not too much to insist on the utter difference between Judaism and New Testament Christianity. Such a shotgun wedding crucifies afresh the Son of God.
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| Is It Israel or Jesus?
Tom Compton Jul 22, 2009
What would you say to a member of your Sunday school class who passes out a letter requesting support to send him on a mission to Israel to help the Israel Defense Force (IDF) through a quasi, Israeli government group, The National Project for Volunteers for Israel (sar-el.org)? The request starts out with..."Israel, the epicenter of our faith and the world, is surrounded by hostile forces putting much pressure on the Jewish people there." Tom Compton, who is a member of a large evangelical church, asks the question "Is it Israel or Jesus?".
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| Baptist Pastors Struggle Over How to Pray for a Just Peace in Gaza
Charles E. Carlson Jul 18, 2009
| We want to proudly celebrate the greatness of our country; but one must be blind to do it
Charles Carlson Jul 03, 2009
“We Hold These Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty…
---What could we tell Samuel Adams, Jefferson, and the other signers if we had to account to them for the America they left to us?
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| Christian Scripture: The Zionist Deception
Charles E. Carlson Jun 20, 2009
Most
Judeo- Christians believe in confessing the sins in their own lives,
but they refuse to see the sins and brutality of Zionists. They have
allowed themselves to make Israel an evil object of worship. Only when Christian Zionists’ support for Israel collapses in shame will political Israel start to practice the morality and justice toward neighbors.
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| The Jerusalem Declaration On Christian Zionism
Eight Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem Jun 16, 2009
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9)---We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false
teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and
reconciliation.
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| Follow Christ, Reject "Christianity"
Charles E. Carlson Jun 13, 2009
One evangelical pastor put is this way in a recent conversation with your author, but is this statement true?
“I respect Islamic scholars and I respect many of them for their life style, but there is no way of getting away from the Militancy of Islam. It is built upon conversion by conquest.”
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| Celebrity Guest Join Vigilers at Beth Israel Synagogue, Ann Arbor
Editor Jun 01, 2009
 A well know peace activist couple recently back from the West Bank joined Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friend at its weekly vigil in front of Beth Israel Synagogue in Ann Arbor. ---Group organizer Henry Herskowiz's has consistently and faithfully led the group in their silent vigil at the Ann Arbor Synagogue nearly every Saturday for five years in protest of its support of the Zionists state's occupation of Palestine. Herskowitz is a former member of the congregation.http://www.a2vigil.org/
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"Radical" Christians or "Fanatical Fundamentalists" in America - A German View
Pandora (German TV) Feb 08, 2010
German TV, ADR's program, Panorama, aired in 2009 is a must see documentary that talks about the "radical Christians" in America who helped George Bush become President. According to Panorama there are millions of "fundamental fanatics" in America. What this program reveals are the traits of "Judeo-Christians" (sometimes known as Christian Zionists or dispensationalists). The piece is in German but has English subtitles. See for yourself at" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38paw_christian-missionaries-in-iraq-pano
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| Israel: Attacks on New Israel Fund, Critical Groups, Threaten Civil Society
Human Rights Watch Feb 08, 2010
The growing harshness of attacks by Israeli government officials on
nongovernmental organizations poses a real threat to civil society in
Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.
The most recent attacks center on the New Israel Fund (NIF), which
supports a wide range of Israeli civil rights and social welfare
organizations, including some that provided information to the United
Nations fact-finding mission under Justice Richard Goldstone that
investigated abuses by both sides in last year's Gaza conflict. http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/08
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| "Did You Know? Gaza"
CPJME Feb 03, 2010
| Judaized Christianity is a Front for New World Order 1956
Henry Makow.com Feb 08, 2010
"Once man gives over to false religion, he is no longer rational because he originates no thought. His life is controlled by whomever controls his religion."Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957.)
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| 10 Boats to Take Aid to Gaza in Spring
Feb 05, 2010
Yesterday, the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), announced a joint venture, sending 10 boats in the spring of 2010 to the besieged Gaza strip. Organizations from Greece, Ireland and Sweden have also promised to send boats to join the flotilla with the Free Gaza movement and Turkey.
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| Surveying the Muslim World
Pew Global Attatude Project Feb 04, 2010
Mixed Views of Hamas and Hezbollah in Largely Muslim Nations
Little Enthusiasm for Many Muslim Leaders; The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 200,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work.
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| Saving Souls for Less
Chrisitanity Today Feb 03, 2010
Recession leads evangelistic ministries to shift to lower-cost
methods.---Across the nation, the recession is pinching churches and missions
agencies—not to mention individual Christians such as Steven Wilkes, who said he
lost more than $60,000 in retirement savings when Wall Street crashed last
year.
Yet Wilkes, editor of the Journal of Evangelism and Missions, said
he believes a bad economy could be just what Christians need to evangelize the
United States.
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| Israel's Reply to Goldstone Report
Unity Coalition For Israel Feb 03, 2010
The 46-page paper primarily defends the integrity of Israel's due process and civilian oversight of the IDF's investigations into 150 separate incidents and reports.The paper also dismisses four of the Goldstone Report's 36 specific allegations:
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| Pakistan School Bombing Kills Students, U.S. Troops (Update2)
Bloomberg News Feb 03, 2010
A bomb outside a northwest Pakistan girls’ school killed 10 people including students and three U.S. soldiers who were training government paramilitary forces, Pakistan’s army said.
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| Goldstone report: Israel and Palestinians respond to UN
BBC Jan 29, 2010
The Israeli defence minister said there was no army as "responsible...
moral and accurate...even under impossible conditions," as Israel. The Palestinian ambassador to the UN said a high-level commission had been set up to investigate war crime claims...Human rights groups such as the Israeli organisation B'tselem have
been involved in helping arrange for Gazans to give testimony in the
criminal probes.They believe criminal investigations include: 1. Six incidents where civilians carrying white flags were allegedly shot. 2. Six cases of alleged use of human shields. 3. Two alleged uses of flechette shells filled with small darts. 4. The
case of the Samouni family, where witnesses say more than 20 people
were killed in an attack on house Israeli troops had told them to
gather in. The full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8487301.stm
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| Israel Must "Roll Back" And End Occupation - Fayyad
Reuters Feb 02, 2010
HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel must begin to "roll back" its occupation of the Palestinian territories to convince Palestinians it wants a peace deal that would give them statehood, the Palestinian prime minister said on Tuesday. Addressing an audience alongside Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Salam Fayyad said rolling back should start by ending army incursions in the West Bank, where the Palestinians aim to establish their state, along with Gaza.
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| Drones and Death: The Israeli Connection
Ed Kinane, Palestine Chronicle Feb 02, 2010
Even Israel acknowledges that, during the Gaza invasion, it killed well over 1000 Palestinians. Such was the butchery that over 100 Palestinians were killed for every Israeli killed. Among the wide range of weapon systems deployed in and over Gaza, drones accounted for the deaths of at least 87 civilians, many of them children.
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| Only an idiot would say Israel has frozen settlement activity
Akiva Eldar - Haaertz Jan 26, 2010
According to Israeli newspaper, Haaertz: "Over the weekend, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
pointed at Israel as not only the one responsible for the stagnation in
the diplomatic process, but also for the thawing of the freeze on
construction in the settlements.
Two months after the government decision on November 26 to freeze
construction in Jewish settlements for 10 months, you'd have to be
blind, an idiot, or a member of the Yesha Council of settlements to use
the term "freeze" to describe the real estate situation in Judea and
Samaria." To view the article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1145224.html
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| Gaza Strip: Hamas government appeals for aid after floods
Albawaba Jan 22, 2010
| Israel pays 10.5 million dollars for damage to UN Gaza premises
Monsters and Critics, Germany Jan 22, 2010
| 03:37 01/19/2010
Gaza Flooded after Israel Opens Dam Gates
Press TV Jan 21, 2010
Israel has opened the floodgates of one of its dams in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, flooding Palestinian houses and causing severe damage.
The Israeli authorities opened the dam's floodgates without any prior warning or coordination with local authorities in Gaza, stunning the residents of the area, the Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported late on Monday.
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| Why German public schools now teach Islam
ChristianScience Monitor Jan 21, 2010
Public schools in Germany must offer religion classes, and pilot courses in Islam are now being offered in addition to established programs in Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism.
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| Bernanke Seeks to Defuse Criticism Over AIG With Call for Audit
Bloomberg News Jan 20, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke sought to defuse allegations that the central bank tried to conceal details about the $182.3 billion bailout of American International Group Inc., calling for a review of Fed actions by congressional auditors.
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| Disaster Aid From Gaza to Haiti
presstv.com Jan 18, 2010
| Gaza Baptist Church Sustained Bomb Damage by Israelis
Bristol [UK] News Jan 14, 2010
In a story entitled, "Bristol Convoy to start return from Gaza," it was revealed that: "While in Gaza with the Viva Palestina aid convoy, Monica (Margaret) Jones was able to meet briefly with Isam Farah and Farid Ayad of the Gaza Baptist Church, to present them with a message of friendship from Bristol Quakers...The Baptist church is well known for its practical charities in Gaza to people of all faiths, including a women's organisation and a counselling service. There are about 70 active members. The church building sustained bomb damage during the attacks on Gaza last winter. To view article: http://www.jackbristol.com/newscentre/bristols-news/bristol-convoy-start-to-return-from-gaza-3753
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| U.S. to store $800m in military gear in Israel
Amos Haral - Haaretz Jan 11, 2010
The U.S. Army will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli soil, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a military emergency, according to a report in Monday's issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News...The United States began stockpiling $100 million in military equipment in Israel in 1990, 12 years after it first began storing weapons within the territory of key allies, starting with South Korea. An American defense official told Defense News that the U.S.-Israel agreement reflects the Obama administration's continued commitment to Israel's security and the understanding that changes in U.S. economic conditions and inflation have limited the weapons available to Israel. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141745.html
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| Israel's Crisis
Mondoweiss.net - Philip Weiss Jan 11, 2010
This is an encouraging report from a Jewish activist, Philip Weiss, who reports, "Just back from Israel/Palestine, the overwhelming sense I carry away is
that the present state cannot last. Just how it goes down I have no
idea. But conditions are so obviously discriminatory, and the knowledge
of these conditions now so widespread– among the Christian pilgrims in
my Jerusalem guesthouse, among European leaders, and now too among the
Israeli elite and American left–that the situation is reminiscent of
the delegitimizing of communism in the 70s and 80s. The period of
apartheid struggle that Ehud Olmert warned of two years ago is upon us.
So too his warning of possible 'national suicide'...A few weeks back Israeli activist Micha Kurz said
that a war had begun between one part of Israeli society and another;
and I come home knowing that that war is about to erupt inside American
Jewish life. You might say that it has already erupted: J Street’s
emergence and all the liberal Zionists in the New York Review of Books
attacking the occupation are signs. But we ain’t seen nothing yet. We
are on the verge of a Jewish intifada, and about time too." To see the article: http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/the-israel-crisis.html
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| FED Tells Bailout Watchdog to Hold Documents
Daniel Wagner. AP Business Writer Jan 12, 2010
(AP:WASHINGTON) The Federal Reserve is blocking
a congressional investigation into bailout decisions made under Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner's leadership.The Fed is telling a bailout
watchdog not to share documents requested as part of a House investigation into
the bailout of failed insurance conglomerate American International Group
Inc.
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| Helen Thomas asks the right question at Press Conference
Glenn Greenwald Jan 12, 2010
| Is "Angry Evangelism" Another Name for Christian Zionism?
Tom Compton Jan 11, 2010
We heard the phrase, "The world is rejecting angry evangelicalism" during a sermon from a visitng pastor, Karl Clauson in my evangelical church. Although, he didn't elaborate on it during his sermon, it got my curiosity in gear. Right away, I thought "angry evangelicalism" must be a euphemism for "Christian Zionist." I decided to find out what Karl Clauson meant, so I emailed him. Find out what I learned at:
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