No need to downplay our rights - Not now, not ever.

Nadav Shragai..
Israel Hayom..
14 January '13..

The Palestinian provocation outpost in the E1 corridor, which was evacuated with record speed on Sunday, is only the tip of the iceberg in the efforts to prevent Jewish contiguity between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim. There are hundreds more temporary and permanent structures along the E1 corridor, and in the area between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, erected by the Palestinian Bedouin without permits and in violation of the law for many years now. These structures are not for show, like the outpost evacuated Sunday. These structures are far more trouble.

The Israeli authorities are having a very hard time combating this Palestinian settlement, which is fully supported by Israeli and international leftist organizations. Anyone traveling along the road between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim can't miss them. These little outposts, some of which are illegally hooked up to Israel's main water pipeline, are faits accomplis. They are much more of a problem than the "tourism project for the dissemination of the Bedouin heritage" as the Palestinians describe the little outpost they built on private and state owned land in the E1 corridor several days ago.

Paula R. Stern - Within Range

Paula R. Stern..
A Soldier's Mother..
13 January '13..

I've written about E1 several times - its history in one post and the world's ridiculous obsession with it in another post. Late last week, 200 Arabs, accompanied, of course, by many of Israel's leftists moved on to E1 and set up tents - establishing, they claimed, an Arab settlement. Of course, they claimed they have papers that say they own this land.

One has to wonder where those papers were for the last 40 years while Israel held E1 after Jordan attacked us in 1967 and lost it, but I guess it took that long for the ink to dry on the forgeries. Isn't it funny that these Palestinians never came forward during the 19 years of Jordanian rule (1948 - 1967) over the area, not to mention the years of British rule (pre-1947) or Ottoman rule (pre-1917) before that.

I've been living here in Maale Adumim opposite the barren E1 hill for almost 11 years - funny how they never came forward with these documents despite numerous announcements of previous governments, despite our building that police building. But this weekend, they decided there were suddenly papers claiming the land was theirs and the ignorant, left-wing Jews rallied to come and support this absurdity.

Though the left regularly condemns any attempt (usually fictitious attempts at that) of so-called right-wing settlers to establish new settlements, they are quick to show their hypocrisy in rushing to support Palestinians who do the same. What was interesting was how quickly the army moved in. The Palestinians were told they could leave their tents while the courts dealt with the legalities, but they were going to be removed immediately and this morning driving into Jerusalem (and much later on the way home), I saw Border Police guarding the roads up to E1 to prevent the return of the Palestinians.

Arlene Kushner from Israel - A Tough World

Arlene Kushner..
13 January '13..

And getting tougher...

After putative PA president Abbas went to the UN late last year to seek recognition as a state, PM Netanyahu made several announcements, including the fact that planning for building would be advanced in the area between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem known as E1.

This caused a furor among the Arabs and their supporters because, went the claim, building in E1 would prevent a contiguous Palestinian state from being established.

This is simply not the case, and I want to review the situation once again before proceeding.

Here you see a map of the E1 area and Ma'aleh Adumim. Note the arrows saying "To Ramallah" to the north, and "To Bethlehem" to the south. What the Arabs want is continuity of Ramallah and Bethlehem via a tract of land that is directly adjacent to eastern Jerusalem. That is because they still covet eastern Jerusalem (at a bare minimum, and all of Jerusalem, more honestly) as the capital of their state some day. That requires that state to be up against eastern Jerusalem.

Once there is contiguity between Ma'aleh Adumim -- which is itself only seven kilometers (just over four miles) to the east of Jerusalem -- and Jerusalem, via E1, a swath of Arab land that runs along all of Jerusalem's eastern border is no longer possible. This does not mean, it should be noted, that a theoretical Palestinian State could not abut Jerusalem at some eastern points. There just wouldn't be contiguity along the whole eastern border of the city.

Credit: Israel Hayom

But in any event, Jerusalem will never again be divided and is not going to serve in any part as the capital of a Palestinian Arab state. Jerusalem was only divided once in its 3,000 year history: During the illegal occupation by Jordan of eastern Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967. Since then full Israeli sovereignty has been applied to eastern Jerusalem and Israel's basic law stipulates that the undivided city is the capital of Israel.

About the facts on the ground - Some facts

Nadav Sharagai..
Israel Hayom..
07 December '12..

Soon, we will mark 20 years to the day. Twenty is a nice, round number. It is also a sad anniversary. The subject of this joyous day, which doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry, even has a Hebrew name: Mevaseret Adumim. It is also known internationally by its non-Hebrew moniker, E1 (the “E” standing for “East”).

E1, the much-talked-about construction plan which is designed to create a territorial linkage between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem, supposedly epitomizes an issue that enjoys wall-to-wall backing among the Israeli public. On the one hand, we have the capital, Jerusalem. On the other hand, we have the Jerusalem metropolitan area that encompasses Maaleh Adumim. The plan to connect the two, however, has touched off a “world war.”

The latest round of diplomatic skirmishes began at the United Nations, which recently granted the Palestinian Authority the status of nonmember observer state. In response, the Israeli government announced that it would proceed with the planning phase of its E1 construction initiative. In response to the crime, there’s punishment. Now the Americans are angry — again. Britain and France are threatening to recall their ambassadors for consultations. It seems that E1 will have to wait a few more years. It has long become accustomed to waiting.

“Promises, promises,” sighed long-time Maaleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel, who for years has endured unfulfilled pledges from politicians. He wants to believe that this time will be different, but he has a long memory. In fact, we all do. We flipped through the history books, all the way back to 20 years ago in an effort to understand exactly what it is about E1 that riles up the international community? Why has a building proposal that has won the backing of nearly the entire Israeli political community remained on paper? It seems that everyone championed it. Everyone hailed it. Everyone supported it. But nobody built it.

In the early 1990s, then-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and his defense minister, Moshe Arens, laid the foundations for the plan when they signed off on a 12,000-dunam north-westward expansion of the Maaleh Adumim municipal boundaries. That was a different era. Washington was less fussy in their dealings with us.

In 1994, then-premier Yitzhak Rabin ordered his housing minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, to produce a plan for a neighborhood that was slated to be built in the area. Rabin, however, did not have the opportunity to see the plan through. He was assassinated. The first Netanyahu government which succeeded Rabin’s administration did complete the initial drawings and the overall master plan for E1. When Ehud Barak replaced Netanyahu as prime minister, the Housing Ministry began to draw up detailed plans which filled in the blanks of the overall master plan. In 2004, these preparations were finally completed. Since then, the plans have grounded to a halt.

The E1 controversy and US media

Fresnozionism.org..
06 December '12..





On Monday, the NY Times published an editorial which included this:

[Netanyahu's actions] could doom the chances for a two-state solution because building in the E1 area would split the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.

Yesterday, NPR’s Philip Reeves, probably the single journalist most responsible for promulgating the 2002 “Jenin Massacre” blood libel against Israel, announced in a “news” broadcast that

There’s particular concern over plans, still at a preliminary stage, for an area called E1. If built, this would cut the West Bank in two. Diplomats say this would make a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict almost impossible.

And today, I was greeted by the following in an editorial in the McClatchy-owned Fresno Bee newspaper:

Yet Israel has decided to … prepare construction of a 4.6 square-mile project near Jerusalem known as E-1. That would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in two and make establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state alongside Israel with Jerusalem as a shared capital, impossible.

Folks, look at a map. If you didn’t see it in yesterday’s post, here it is again:

Paula Stern - The History of E-1

Paula R. Stern..
A Soldier's Mother..
03 December '12..




The world is up in arms, as it so loves to be. What is it about now?

No, no - not Syria and the violence there. Not Afghanistan; certainly not Iran. They aren't condemning Turkish television fining the Simpsons for mocking God; or a social club at Harvard University saying Jews need not apply. No, it isn't about Hungary cataloging Jews as they would cattle and certainly nothing about Iranian warships sailing towards Sudan.

It's all about a mountain that sits between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem. Even left-wing papers in Israel mistakenly write that Israel is threatening to "bisect" the West Bank and the news is filled with country after country condemning Israel for damaging chances for peace. Chances for peace? We were at war two weeks ago and little has changed. There are currently NO chances for peace on the table. In fact, there is no table.

No, no, no - what we have is a mountain - not a very tall one, smaller even than the ones next to it on three sides.

It is barren, but for a road that snakes its way up to a midpoint where a large police station has been built - barren, but for that building. No one lives there - no one has.

The land was once part of the Ottoman Empire - no village, no homes, no dwellings. Sheep and goats sometimes graze on the lower areas of the hills, but that's about it. When the Ottoman's made way for the British, it was under their rule, and still nothing but the camels and the sheep and the goats and, perhaps, an occasional ground hog.

In the 1920s, England cut off 2/3 of the land that was called Palestine and gave it to the Hashemites - and thus Jordan was born. The remaining 1/3 was ruled by the British until 1947, including that land that today we call E1. In 1948, the Arabs chose war over peace, death over life. They attacked and lost - but they got E1 - the barren land between Jerusalem's eastern border and the west bank of the Jordan River.

The Fallacy of E-1 Contiguity Returns

TS..
Camera/Snapshots..
02 December '12..






With Israel's announcement that it plans to proceed with construction in Area E-1, east of Jerusalem, earlier falsehoods about that land reemerge. Thus, Ha'aretz reports that construction in E-1

would effectively bisect the West Bank and sever the physical link between the Palestinian territories and Jerusalem.

Similarly, the New York Times reports:

Construction in E1, in West Bank territory that Israel captured in the 1967 war, would connect the large Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, dividing the West Bank in two. The Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem would be cut off from the capital, making the contiguous Palestinian state endorsed by the United Nations last week virtually impossible.

So is it true that construction in E-1 would bisect the West Bank, and severing Palestinian contiguity, and cutting off Palestinian areas from Jerusalem? The answer is no. As CAMERA pointed out in 2005 ("The Contiguity Double Standard"):

Palestinian contiguity in the West Bank would be no more cut off with the so-called E-1 corridor than would Israeli contiguity if Israel were to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders, even with slight modifications.

Here's why. First, take a look at this map of the region:

Tarring Israeli Development near Jerusalem. Who else? NYT.

Leo Rennert..
American Thinker..
30 November '12..

The Dec. 1 New York Times article ("Housing Move in Israel Seen as Setback for a Two-State Plan") by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about Israeli plans to develop new housing units east of Jerusalem is a highly inflammatory anti-Israel piece that doesn't stand up to rigorous fact-checking. Its main charge, quite erroneous, is that the project would doom creation of a contiguous Palestinian state on the West Bank.

Here's Rudoren's lead paragraph: "Israel is moving forward with development of Jewish settlements in a contentious area east of Jerusalem, defying the United States by advancing a project that has long been condemned by Washington as effectively dooming any prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Fleshing out her indictment of Israel, Rudoren adds that "if such a project were to go beyond blueprints, it could prevent the creation of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state."

The area in question, known as E-1, would, she writes, link Jerusalem with the Israeli West Bank city of Maale Adumim to the east of the capital. In the process, Rudoren contends, it would end up cutting the West Bank in two by making it impossible for Palestinian road traffic to proceed from Ramallah in the north to Bethlehem in the south. Territorial contiguity for a Palestinian state would be out the window. The West Bank would be split in two.

Western media and governments, including Washington, have for many years endorsed the Palestinian view. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it has a factual basis.

What are the facts?

The dreams of a mayor to build a lake in the desert

Paula R. Stern..
A Soldier's Mother..
05 October '12..

It is the arrogance of man to make a lake in a desert. It goes against nature, doesn't it? And yet, despite laughing when I first heard the dreams of our mayor to build a lake in the desert, I have to admit, I am completely won over. That's right - Mayor Benny Cashriel and the Jewish National Fund have done...well, what Israelis have been doing for 100 years (even before the State of Israel was re-established) - we've been making the desert bloom.

This week, in honor of the holiday of Sukkot, Maale Adumim held a "Happening" near the lake and thousands attended. It was wonderful - music, arts and crafts, games, tents, sunshine and, oh yes, our lake.

Because pictures speak louder than words - the lake that man created in a land that needed our nurturing love. It is true that while there were always Jews in the land of Israel - throughout the 2,000 years in which the majority of Jews were exiled from this land - still, the land waited for our return. No other people - not the Turks, not the British, not the Muslims/Arabs/Palestinians/Romans/Philistines, etc. ever loved this land or developed it as we have.

(Read and see full "A Lake that Man Created")

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Paula R. Stern - Why Do I Live in the “Settlements”?

Paula R. Stern..
Times of Israel..
05 September '12..

In a lot of ways, writing the introduction to this blog was easy. This is who I am; accept me as I accept you. That’s simple. The next question someone might ask is why do you live there?

I had a choice when I moved to Israel – the whole country was open to me. It wasn’t like I had family living in a place they expected me to move to or any other compelling reason to choose one place over another. I knew what I didn’t want; I knew what I did. So let me explain.

There are two major reasons why people choose to live in the areas known as Yehuda and Shomron, Judea and Samaria, the West Bank. The first was/is economics. It’s usually cheaper (not always) to live in a settlement. When we moved to Israel, I could buy a small apartment in an Israeli city, or I could buy a beautiful house located on a nice-sized plot of land. Economics.

Nope, I didn’t make my choice based on where it was cheaper – I went for the house in the yishuv (settlement) not because of the house, but because of the yishuv. I had a garden that I loved – I planned it out myself. My husband kept asking me what the plan was…and I would look at him and say – an orange tree here, please. Oh, a lemon tree there. I want a mango tree on this side. Flowers, I want flowers. And grass, let it swirl this way around these rocks. I loved my garden. There wasn’t a room without at least one curved or angled wall. I was enchanted.

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Roth - The terror attack in Ma'ale Adumim, and the role car license plates play

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
27 June '12..

Ma'ale Adumim, a modern city of 39,000 people in the Jerusalem suburbs, is about 7 kilometers east of where we are writing this. The name is mentioned in the Bible's Book of Joshua; it marked the border between the Israelite tribes of Judah and Benjamin. In the Book of Luke in the New Testament, it's where the Good Samaritan parable is set. Currently there's a shortage of good Samaritans in the area.

On December 17, 2011, one of the security guards manning the checkpoint at the community's entrance was stabbed by an unknown assailant who spoke Arabic [report]. A 21 year-old suspect by the name of Hanaishe, a resident of the village of Qabatiya, was arrested two months later and [according to Ynet's account] admitted to the stabbing, ascribing nationalistic reasons to no one's surprise.

This afternoon (Wednesday), there was a similar stabbing in more or less the same place, with a different outcome. A Palestinian Arab who lives in Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem, drove a Mitsubishi which, according to an initial report was owned by an east Jerusalem resident, came into Ma'ale Adumim and attempted to run over a police officer. Unsuccessful in this, he rammed the borrowed vehicle into a police squad car. What follows next is according to the reported testimony of Superintendent Uri Yoran, commander of the Ma'ale Adumim police station.

(Video) Mayor Benny Kashriel talks about Ma'aleh Adumim

ShalomTVcom..
11 June '12..




Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel talks about his West Bank city north of Jerusalem, love of Israel, conflict with Palestinians, and why a successful peace agreement must include Israel's right to maintain settlements in the Palestinian state.


Published on Jun 11, 2012 by ShalomTVcom

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Stern - Thieves, Protection, Law and an Email

Paula R. Stern..
A Soldier's Mother..
29 February '12..

How's that for a title?

Every once in a while, a wave of thefts plague our city of Maale Adumim. Most times, it turns out to be the Bedouins, who live in the dry river bed and across the mountain. Sometimes, it is Arabs from nearby neighborhoods and yes, there have been times when it was Jews. The Bedouins have an interesting and simple life, for the most part and there are times in my hectic run to and from one meeting to another, that I almost envy them. A Bedouin once tried to explain his theory of life and theft. According to this kind man who felt hospitality was not just a virtue, but an obligation - we all own things. If he can steal...I mean take...something from you, it is your fault, not his. It isn't theft because if God had not wanted him to have it, he would not have been able to steal...I mean take...it from you.

After a short time of trying to explain my philosophy, I gave up. Different worlds, different philosophies. I also gave up trying to convince a very nice Arab from Hebron that polygamy wasn't right. He asked if I wouldn't prefer my husband to move his second wife in with me, rather than sneak off and cheat somewhere. As I couldn't fathom being one of two (or more) wives, he simply couldn't understand the concept that I'd be handing my incredibly beloved husband the door. In his world, the first wife's only option would be to return in disgrace to her father's home - in my world, the man would walk around with the "first" wife's footprint on his...well, never mind.

Getting back to the Bedouins that have settled around my city. Every once in a while, usually at night, they climb up the mountains to my city and try to enter a house, and, if God lets them, they take whatever they can. For the most part, when Bedouins enter, they rob, but do not harm. They want property. That doesn't mean they can't or won't cause physical harm when confronted, but rather it isn't their intended result.

Whose Land is it Anyway?

Paula R. Stern
A Soldier's Mother
29 May '11

http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com/2011/05/whose-land-is-it-anyway.html

There is politics, and then there is dirty politics. There are promises made, and broken, on a regular basis when it comes to the world of negotiation, national, and international relations. And yet a recent incident should cause outrage because it deals not with promises, but with manipulation; not with honest negotiation but with deceit and pressure on an ally. Perhaps even, it dips into the decidedly dirty field of spying.

Decades ago, Israeli governments started promising that the city of Maale Adumim could build on land that was to be known as Mevasseret Adumim.Perhaps you may recognize it as E1, another name written on a map that does nothing to give a real picture of what is there...and what is not. The real picture is the one you see here - of barren mountains that no one ever settled. This is not an Arab village that was destroyed, but the natural growth of a beautiful city that makes the desert bloom. There on the right, you can see the edge of Maale Adumim as it exists today; and there on the left, the barren hilltop of Mevasseret Adumim.

Mevasseret Adumim, like all of Maaleh Adumim, was uninhabited before Israelis started coming to build, plant and develop it. Peace Now once claimed that 60% was owned by Palestinians - nonsense! They eventually backed down to 0.05% and even there they lack proof for that number.

Palestinians once went to the Jordanians to claim the land - the Jordanian courts denied their claim, confirming that the area was state-owned land captured from the Ottoman Empire, mandated by the British, held by the Jordanians, and then conquered and settled by Israel.

It is one physical hilltop over from Jerusalem – the only one between the capital of Israel and its suburb, Maale Adumim.

Today, Maale Adumim is a sprawling city of close to 45,000 people, perched on several hilltops overlooking Jerusalem to the west and the Dead Sea to the east. It has several large commercial centers including a three story mall, several post offices, many schools for all ages, large recreation areas, a city library, an emergency medical center, ambulance and fire fighting squads that respond not only to the cities needs, but to emergencies that happen for miles all around.

According to successive Israeli governments, the borders of Maale Adumim include not only the built-on areas, but several surrounding hills. This is true of many cities in Israel and is how Israeli cities are designed. First the borders of the municipality are drawn; then they begin developing each area. One has only to travel next to the city of Modiin, for example, to see that the city is in a constant state of growth. So much so, that its residents joke that the city bird is the “crane” for all the massive building cranes that hover over the city.

Like Modiin, Maale Adumim has long been a gathering point for people who want to live near the great city of Jerusalem but welcome the more rural, suburban atmosphere. In fact, the borders of Maale Adumim actually touch the edges of Jerusalem itself – and herein lies the controversy. On the last remaining hilltop between Maale Adumim, Arabs have decided to feel threatened. After thirty years of building, this last hilltop represents the end for them and so they virulently condemn it and threaten violence. In their eyes, building of this one last hill will remove their chances of destroying Maale Adumim itself.

Successive American governments have admitted that Maale Adumim will never be evacuated, cannot in any practical way be obliterated, nor should it. Even President Obama admits that adjustments such as including Maale Adumim, must be made for any long term peace agreement to be successful.

And again, we have reached the crux of the matter because what almost every Israeli knows, though not all are willing to admit it – the Palestinian leadership is not interested in a long-term peace agreement. At most, they want hudna – a 10 year cease-fire that their religion allows them to break at any point if it is made with a non-Muslim entity (such as Israel).

Rivlin, in Hebron, Slams Netanyahu: You Can't Build TA By Destroying Ariel

Chaim Levinson-Nir Hasson
Haaretz
08 September 09

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to freeze settlement construction while on a visit to Jewish compounds in Hebron yesterday.

"Anyone who believes Jerusalem can be built by destroying Hebron hasn't learned a thing," said Rivlin, in Hebron for a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1929 Hebron massacre. "Anyone who thinks you can build Tel Aviv by drying up Ariel and Ma'ale Adumim, or that we'll get our territorial rights recognized this way, is destined to repeat past mistakes. Anyone who thinks we will thus escape a Holocaust is embracing false hopes," said Rivlin.

Regarding American pressure, Rivlin said, "Our friends in the international arena should know that not everything is allowed in diplomacy and not everything can be traded. Even in politics, there are lines that one must never, ever cross."
(Full Article)
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Rivlin: No Peace Without E-1 Building

Rebecca Anna Stoil

JPost

10 August 09

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin broke his usual silence on diplomatic matters to deliver a sharp warning Monday to US President Barack Obama that any policy of halting construction in Ma'aleh Adumim could lead to a failure of the peace process.

Rivlin and Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) were visiting the suburban settlement east of the capital to view firsthand building projects frozen under US pressure.

"Without Ma'aleh Adumim and without the construction in E-1 and a continuous Jerusalem territory, there will not be peace, but there will be a division of Jerusalem, which will intensify the conflict," said Rivlin. "We have had disagreements with the US, but [former president George W.] Bush gave an explicit and valid letter saying that Ma'aleh Adumim, with other parts of Israel, will be areas where Israel can continue to be based."

Rivlin and Yishai visited E-1, a mostly empty area of 12 sq.km. in Ma'aleh Adumim that borders on Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood to the west, as well as a site within the built-up part of Ma'aleh Adumim where they saw the encroachment of a Beduin encampment hundreds of meters away from some of the city's most expensive private homes.

Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel said that new building in the city was completely stopped, including a freeze on a permit for hundreds of units in the northeast Nofei Sela neighborhood. Kashriel expressed concern regarding the impact of American pressure to stop building throughout the West Bank on the future of his city.

The municipality has plans to build 3,500 apartments in E-1, also known as Mevaseret Adumim, but has yet to receive a permit despite promises in the past from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he supported the project.

The city has also not received a final permit for the 450-unit project in Nofei Sela, which was frozen by the Olmert government, although all the infrastructure for those units is already in place.

There are some 450 apartment units in Ma'aleh Adumim which are under construction. But according to a city spokesman, new permits would be needed before any other building could take place.

Netanyahu has not approved a single building project in a West Bank settlement since taking office on March 31.

Rivlin, who keeps a map of the Ma'aleh Adumim area hanging in his Knesset office, said that "the struggle for Jerusalem begins in Ma'aleh Adumim. The building within Ma'aleh Adumim and in E-1 is part of a national consensus on security and strategy. Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim are part of the same unit. Cutting off Ma'aleh Adumim from Jerusalem would put Ma'aleh Adumim in a situation similar to that of Mount Scopus between the years 1948 and 1967."

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Related: The link between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim

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