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The role of the United Nations since the wholesale takeover by the PLO in southern Lebanon has only now come to light. /
Today, as one drives along the Lebanese road, one sees the blue bereted soldiers of UNIFIL sitting.in their pillboxes and checkpoints, perfoiming the usefiil service of taking a tally of all Israeli vehicles which pass!
It now transpires that in more halcyon days — pre June 7. 1982 — they perfoi^med more, useful services ... from a PLO viewpoint.
Some time ago the Israelis refused to permit some UN vehicles from crossing the border — insisting that their occapants walk across and take new cars or trucks on the other side. This was because of the high incidence of arms smuggling which was then prevaJent.
Three vignettes of UN "involvement" throw some light on the disparity between what it was suppose to do in Lebanon and what it did, in fact.
Moving along the road from Metulla in Israel to the Amun plateau in Lebanon, behind Beaufort Castle, there is a UNIFIL checkpoint. Not one hundred yards along the road behind it are a series of PLO fortified slit trenches and bunkers, carefully constructed with concrete, walls. Here, the advancing Israeli forces encountered fierce oppo.sition and captured many men and much equipment. The maintenance of such . PLO fortifications was patently contrary to
the mandate of UNIFIL . . . yet they were passed daily by the UN soldiers and Were ■ untouched and tolerated. .■ Under pressure from Israel, the UN admitted early in July that its "vocational school" in Siblin, just north of Sidon, had been used by the PLO for military activities. Israel claimed the school had been openly transferred into one of the PLO's largest military training bases, where a complement of 600 terrorists received daily military and terrorist instruction.
The UN admission was accompanied by the claim that they did not know 'and also that the Lebanese government (whose sovereignty has been usurped by the PLO for the past six years) was responsible for running the school — the UN only provided the money!
Finially, comes the acknowledgement by the Norwegian foreign ministry that the commander of the Norwegian contingent in UNIFIL had gone as far a^ signing an agreement with the PLO giving It free movement Jn his sector, limiting the powers of inspection and control of his soldiers and forbidding the investigation of suspected PLC terrorists.
It is rather sad that Canada has been involved in providing the transportation and communication logistics for a group w-hich, at best, has been.totally impotent and, at worst, aided and abetted the terrorist build-Up in Lebanon.
— Donald Can-
While the Canadian news media still continue, to- devote much coverage to allegations about the destruction of civilian property and life during the recent Israeli invasion of Lebanon, a.glaring inconsistency is to be noted in their reporting of that other conflict how lacerating the Middle East.
With the Ayatollah Khomenini's blessing the Iranian army has laiinched a full scale war against Iraq. News agencies report that hundreds of thousands of soldiers are" involved in a war which include tank battles of the magnitude experienced in World ■WaVIh' :
What is so glaring is the almost complete silence of the media regarding the civilian casualties in the Iran-Iraq war. ; Iraq has already boasted of itsair raids on Iranian cities near the Sh'at al'Arab, the waterway which has been the source of much contention. The Iranians, in turn,
have trumpeted accounts of the destruction of civilians in assaults oh-Iraqi cities.
One wonders,^!in the.' light of such announcements, where the coverage is of. these events. Where are the photographs of mutilated bodies, buildings in rubble, hospital wards fuU of victims?
The answer, of course, is that neitherthe Iranians nor the Iraqis are as sophisticated as the PLO in the art of disinformation.
This points up the unfortunate double standards that the Western press has applied to Israel. News agencies have accepted uncritically allegaitipns about Israelidestructionof civiHan lifein Lebanon de;spite the .fact that the sources providing the allegations are PLO ones.
The same agencies are strangely silent, however, about the brutal war being waged against civilians in Iran and Iraq.
A little consistency would do no harm.
By DAVID BIRKAN
On Aug. 2, 1943, Jewish himates staged an uprising In the mammoth concentration camp of Treblinka.
Treblinka opened inJune, 1942, a prime instrument by which the Nazis would carry out the systematic destruction of all Jews in all occupied countries across Europe — the Final Solution, decided on six months earlier in Wannsee. .
Located on a railVvay hub about 60 miles northeast of Warsaw, its new killing facilities were first tested on a group of young Czechoslovakian Jews. It was com-, pleted several months later as a huge complex composed of a slave labor camp and a much larger extermination centre.
The majority of the slave laborers were Jews, brought in after roundups or through forced labor contingents demanded from various ghetto administrations.TMost died of exhaustion, beatings"5r starvation. Non-Jews were much better fed and allowed food packagfes: Cruelty was part of the routine. The commander was fond: of trampling inmates with his horse. During the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, some 30 children were .=4)rought in and killed with-an axe by a" Ukrainian guard.
The extermination centre, a ihile away, was the largest of any. On a 32-acre site, 30 SS men and 300 Ukrainian guards operated 13 gas chaimbers.most of which were some 60 square yards in size. Between 1,000 to IrSOd-, Jews, were recruited from the healthief^ijrivais to dispose of the corpses.
Close to 750,000 Jews from Poland, Gjennany, Ao8lrI»r~GzecIio8lovalda, Hel-und, Fnuce, Belgfoqi, Lmemboaix^ Greece, Yngoslavta and Balgaria, as weD as Gypsies and some Poles, were m.ordered in 1>6^11nka. The cnrrendes^ of 30 different : ODun^ries were found In'the camp treasury after'the■ : - ■ ■
Forced to strip.even in the harshest of . weatheri arrivals would be chased through a 150-yard path — nicknamed the HimmeU strasse (street to Heaven) by the Germans
to the gas chambers. Fists, clubs, whips and bayonets provided the gauntlet. Always baying, an enormous hound belonging to the, camp's leading torturer would occasionally tear chunks of flesh from, passers-by.
Despite the violence, a variety of deceptions were employed to undermine the Jews' realization of their fate and avert any last desperate measures. These Included neatly trimmed lawns, train change stati<m8, choirs, bands pUyhig light music and Jazz, and, bi the gas chambers themselves, bathroom tiles and shower 'heads.. .
'Packed inside the hermetically sealed gas chambers, the victims died in 20 minutes or so after diesel engines began pumping in carbon monoxide. Equipment breakdowns prolonged the process.
, Jewish inmates pried apart the corpses, which stood pressed one against the other, ana,took them by way of a second gauntlet _ — of extractions of gold teeth and'searches in body orifices for hidden jewelry -r- to ^mass graves.
In early 1943, reversals in the eastern frontled the Germans to attempt wiping out evidence of the camp's operation. A special corps of Jewish. inmates was selected to begin exhuming and burning the corpses.
Knowing .that upon completion they would be shot, these^Jews began preparations for escape.^'" Witha^copied, key, one group broke iijto the camV arsenal and smuggled several grenades,\ pistols and rifles into their workshops. A second group-was armed oiily with the shovels and spades of their grisly work. ■ ■] ■ ■ .
Discovery of two of the participants threw the operation.Into a prematme start. Most of the 1,000 were mowed down hi short order. Of the 400^or4io who broke ont^ most were caoght by a manhunt and MDed or betrayed by, local peasants. A few found shelter. These made up part of the 50 sunivorB of Treblinka when the Russians liberated the area nearly a year later.
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By SHELDON KIRSHNER
The massacre of Armenians by Turks 67 years ago in eastern Turkey was the emotive event which almost scuttled ^ recent international conference on genocide held in Israel. .
Despite efforts by the Israeli government to have it called off and despite the refusal of some 150 enrolled participants to attend, the conference opened on schedule last month in Tel Aviv. • ,
To the consternation of the Israeli and Turkish governments, the first paper read at the gathering equated the sufferings of the Jews with that of the Armenians — a leitmotif both nations had hoped to expunge from the conference.
Ordinarily, the conference might have passed unnoticed had it not been for the inclusion of the Armenians in the agenda; Having heard that the controversial Armenian question would be discussed in the same breath as the Holocaust, the Turks applied pressure on Israel to have it deleted from the proceedings. To this day,' turkey denies having murdered an estimated one million Armenian civilians in 1915. Armenians, who have lately taken to assassinating Turkish diplomats, want a formal acknowledgement of complicity from Turkey . . . something they are not likely to get. "
Conference organizers were aware of this flashpoint, but this did not deter them from going ahead. Adding fuel to the fire w;as the alleged threat by the Turks to take reprisals against the Turkish Jewish community if papers on the Armenians were presented.
Turkey denied having issued any threat, and its ambassador to the U.S., in a letter to The New York Times, de^ribed it as "utterly groundless." As he put it: "Jewish Turks enjoy in full the rights and privileges of Turkisli citizenship. Indeed, a central theme of Turkish history, reUgious tolerance, finds its fullest expression in the history; of the Jews in Turkey.
He went on to add: "Turkey provided refuge 'to thousands of Jews fleeing the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition.-Tens of thousands escaping from Nazi-occupied Europe found haven in Turkey. ... The notion that Jewish Turks might . be victimized because'of a contemplated conference in Israel that may include reiteration of . .. , misrepreseritations regarding the treatrnent of Armenians during World War] is preposterous." :
Neverthcliess, Israel was concerned.
• Prior to the 1980 coup d'etat — the third in Turkey's history as. a modern, reconstituted nation — the 20,000 Jews there had expressed (roncern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. They were especially afraid of the growing influence of a politician named Necmettin Erbakan, leader of the National Salvation Party, a
. concern shared by Israel.
Erbakan, who was arrested for violating the country's secular laws, was freed as a result of entreaties from the Arab world. His influence today is said by observers to have been greatly diminished, to.the relief of Jews. ■
• Israel  feared  its relationship with Turkey  — the ^ first  Moslem -land  to . recognize the Jewish state — would suffer if it lent official or unofficial support to the conference.
Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations with Israel to the level of second secretary after the Israelis proclaimed Jerusalem as their eternal capital and annexed the Golan Heights. Recently, the Turks declined to issue visas to Israeli labor delegations and sports groups.
In an Israeli air strike during the opening stages of the current war in Lebanon, 11 Turks were killed and 27 were wounded when the vehicles in which they were traveling were strafed. Turkey summoned the Israeli charge d'affaires in Istanbul and protested, sending Israel-Turkey relations into another tailspin.
r Because of these twin factors, the Israeli . foreign ministry was not keen about the Tel Aviv- conference. In fact, the: Israelis informed the Turks that all Israeli ofiflcia] and semiofficial institutions had withdrawn and that participants had been urged to do the same.
Israel's foreign ministry said it opposed the conference for. reasons that it termed only as "vital tothe Jewish nation."
The Turks voiced "satisfaction" with Israel's decision, cognizant that the Israelis had really tried to discourage would-be parficipants. - .
Elie Wiesel; the novelist, resigned as conference president "in the interests of the Jewish people." Rabbi Arthur Hertz-berg, who is influential in the Worid Jewish Congress, agreed to replace him. But he. too, dropped out. ''As a public figure interwoven into the Jewish organizational ■■ establishment, Imust on some occasions be mindful of public constraints. .."he said.
In a related development, the counsel for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council has been quoted as saying that a Turkish diplomat had threatened retaliation if the fate of Turkish Armenians Is biclnded In a proposed Washington museum on. Nazi
death camps.
Ah item in The New York Times quotes Monroe Freedman as saying that if the Armenian tragedy is incorporated in the museum's exhibit,"the physical safety of-Jews in Turkey would be threatened and Turkey mightpullout of NATO."
The Holocaust Memorial Council^ a U.S. agency, is an outgrowth of the President's Comihission on the. Holo<»ust, created during the administration of Jimmy (Darter. It calls the' death of Armenians at the hands: of the Turks the "first genocide of the 20th century." (In contemplating the Final Solution against European Jewry, Hitler referred to the events of 1915 as evidence of man's propensity to forget crimes of the highest magnitude].
According to Freedman, a Turkish diplomat attached to the embassy in Washington uttered the threats, during a luncheon in 1981. But the diplomat in question, Minhat Balkan, denies he eveir said Turkey would withdraw from NATO, or harm Jews. "I never said such a thing. No man in his right mind would even think of such a thing."
However, Balkan does concede there "would be repercussions" if the plight of the Armenians is publicized by the Holocaust Memorial Council.
Sixty seven Jewish men and women discovered they had something in common when they met recently at a kosher hotel in WoodbourncN.Y.
Alcoholism was the bond that,brought them together for a seminar sponsored by the JACS Foundation. JACS stands for Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically-Dependent Persons and Significant Others.
Among the persons who summoned up the courage to come to Woodbourne were three rabbis and a student cantor. Half were synagogue goers, and males and females took part in equal numbers. Represented were Jews from Orthodox, Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism.
"I was sure I was unique and I was ashamed." one participant told Ben Gallob of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "Now the support of my new friends gives me the strength to face every morning without the bottle."
Alcoholism has never been much of a problem among Jews, but a recent article In The Jewish Spectator claims that the rate is steadily rising.
"In some ways, the Jewish alcoholic jjoses a more complicated problem than the non-Jewish patient,". Writes Walter Duckat,for many years director of guidance and employment in New York City's Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. "First, because alcoholism has been so rare among Jews both the victirrts and their families find it difficult to admit its existence. Then there is the sense of shock after discovering that it causes so marly difficulties and hardships. Finally there is often unwillingness to accept treatmeiht;"
What has triggered this increase of alcoholism? r
"jews, says Dockat, are abandoning Jewish traditions and adopting prevailing iion-Jewish social habits. Jewish college > students acquire the habit of drinldng wine, beer and hard liquor, and Jewishbuslness-men partake of drinks at lunch to slough off accumulated tension.
Growing numbers bf-suburban Jewish housewives feel frustrated because they have failed to realize vocational goals or because their marriages are on the rocks. Unattached single women drink excessively to fight off loneliness.
Tti the past. Jewish sobriety could be explained by the moderate use of wine Or other iiitoxicating beverages for kiddush and festivals, DUckat notes. Young people observed their parents drinking mainly during religious occasions, and they carried on this tradition.
"Thus, Jewish sobriety became ingrained social behavior, reinforced by their feelings of disgust and disdain when they observed the drunken behavior and excesses of others."
In his opinion, alcoholism among Jews is not a passing phenomenon and is likely to grow.
"There are reasons to believe that the strong Jewish tendency to emulate thie ways of their neighbors, the increase of economic and emotional pressures, the attenuation of Jewish religious l>elief8 and practice will produce many more Jewish alcoholics."
Duckat notes that it is incumbent on Jewish organizations to face the problem squarely.
What journalist Peter Newman calls "an exotic new strain of bravura entrepreneurs" has'emerged in Canada, and in The Acquisitors [McCleUand and Stewart, $24.95], Newman fleshes them out.
Strangers to the Canadian Establishment, they are a brash breed who have shaken its members "to the very filaments of (their) elegant roots." And a handful of them are Jews.
businessmen
The outgoing editor of Maclean's, Newman begins his gossipy survey in tlie West, taking on the likes of Joe.SegaHreal estate) and the Belzberg brothers (finance), and works his way east to Such men as George Cohort (McDonald's) arid the Reichmanns (real estate)..
Writing in the manner of a sophisticafed gossip columnist. Newman—a Je^ himself — certainly has a way \vith words. But;
George Cohon
occasionally, his prose is like that of an over-ripened tomato. In spite of this drawback. The Acquisitors has its rewards.
To this reviewer, the best chapters on the Jewish acquisitors are on Giiorge Cohon and the Reichmann brothers.
Cohon, whom Newman refers to as "the ultimate Fast Money man in the ultimate Fast Money business," is a Chicago lawyer who acquired the franchise rights to McDonald's hi Canada in the 1960s. With a < $70,000 hivestment, he opened his first outlet in London, Out., and expanded like crazy. There are now 400 outlets hi this country, and sales last year were $575 million.
The Reichmanns (Albert, Paul and Ralph) are perhaps the most secretive businesstmen in Canada, so it is quite amazing how Newman was able to a,mass so much information on them.
They are the world's largest developers, with international assets estimated at more than $7 billion, growhig at neariy $500 million every six months. Theh- company, Olympla & York, has put up some of Canada's best-known skyscrapers. The Reichmanns also have large assets in firms like Al)ttibl-Price [the worid's biggest newsprint producer], English Property [one of Britain's most prominent development companies] and Brinco [originally owned by the Rothschilds].
Orthodox Jews who scrupulously observe the Sabbath, they are probably the most successful entrepreneiirs .in Canada. It is something of a tribute to Newman's journalistic resourcefulness that he is able to write so informatively about men who disdain the limelight.
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Criticism of brad^^^^b^^ shocking in current advertising war
ByJ.B.SALSBERG
There is no denying that this, the.fifth Israeli war, is different from all others that preceded it. And so is the reaction of Jewish people, both inside and outside of the Jewish state.
In acknowledging this undeniable fact, one need not become incapacitated by fear nor need one become euphoric because of the emergence of a volatile manifestation of dissent. .
This new phenomenon inside Israel and in the Jewish communities of many lands reflects legitimate differences of opinion as to the fundamental objectives of the present war. It also demonstrates a-questioning of the social, cultural and political orientation of the present government in general. All this is. understandable and one can live with it.
Howeverj 1 find is shocking and provocative when Jewish groups and individuals In the Diaspora, who do not have to put their lives on the line, engage in a lively and costly advertlshig war in the North American.press — either to encoimige or to admonish, criticize _and: intimidate the Israeli authorities on the ongoing war, a matter that only the
^__Israelis have the.moral right to engage -
in. \
This disturbing practice is not limited to one particulair^rdup or to adherents of one school of thought^t crosses all lines . of demarcation.: For instance:
The Ne_w York (read Williamsburg) supporters of~..the fanatical, antirlsrael extremists of Mea'Shearim (Jerusalem)
bought a full page in the New York Times to condemn Israel in the present war.
This was followed by an opposite type of New York Times advertisement..This one came from another religious school, in Brooklyn that urged the Israeli government to ignore the advice of the. obeisant, Galut Jews and to give the Israeli generals a free hand to conduct the war as they see fit. Brooklyn knows best what Israel should do. : But. the secular leadership outside Israel is also on guard and tells Israel, via thepopularmedia, either to stop the war. or to step it up.
LHsturhing practice
NahumGoldmann, Phillip Klutznick (both former heads of the World Jewish Congress) and Pierre Mendes France (a former premier of France) issued their joint communique against the war from the French capital. Chher groups, groupings and grouplets in other countries are also crowding the advertising offices of the press with their instructions and demands to Israel in one hand and the money for the purchased space in the other.
I repeat what 1 said a week ago: The question is not the correctness or incorrectness of the Israeir govern-ment's war policies. Those'^policies^ are seriously questioned inside and outside-of Israel and, in my opinion, not without justification. The final judgment will be reached in the fulness of time.
B\i\,\ask, by what moral!standard do , the comfortable extremes of the right and the left, who live in Paris or in New York, in Toronto or Los Angeles — by
what moral right do they justify their advertising battle in New York or Toronto, for or against the war that Israel is now engaged in?
Do the designers' and promoters of such paid advertisements really hope to affect Israel's current war policies or.are they merely anxious: to publicize their differences for purely local reasons?
Furthermore — are all those who give their public endorsements of the newspaper ads also actively involved in pro-Israel and pro-local commimity activities : at all other times? Or are they reaching for their pens and small change, only when such a public blast is prepared?
Are they one-time soldiers in the Jewish war in the advertising pages of the press or are they also soldiering the year-round for Israeli and Jewish survival?
These, I respectfully submit, are not extraneous questions. They are quite germane to any - attempt to assess the meaning of the current advertising war of the North American Jews.
Frankly, as a non-partisan in World
"Jewish Congress top level politics, I am inclined^to endorse the-general views , that Edgar  Bronfman,' the present president of World Jewish Congress, ' projected_at the recent Congress executive, meeting in JParis. Bronfman separated himself from the Goldmann-Klutz-nick statement but he did'express the opinion that afterthewar Israel will have to face up squarely.to the Palestinian . problem rather than with the PLO problem,.and aim at the-goal-of peace" with its Arab neighbors.
After discussing the contents of this column with my uncle Eliezer I couldn't help but end with the usual lament of
jhow hard it is jto be a Jew. My even sympathetic uncle suggested that perhaps /we should all encourage the
\Lubavitch chassidic movement in its 3resent\campaign to force the hand of
ythe Creator by insisting that "we want Messiah-now!" Thq success of the Lubavitch campaign would solve all our problems! And how, I added in agreement.
Sensati
Toronto community leader Donald was a member of a United Jewish A mission which recently went to Leb right up to Beirut r to get ficst information on the situation there. " we have seen in Lebanon," he sayt memo to the editor which accompanle report, "has convinced me more thai of the caliminy of the media In '. America."
ByDONALDCARR
JERUSALEM —
Can one indict the entire liiedia ove treatment of the Israel-PLO bati Lebanon?
I suppose not. If one scours the there are a few bright spots here and but they are primarily editorials, o articles or interviews:
An article by Connor Cruise O'Br the London Observer; an editorial i Wall Street Journal; an interview of f Arens, Israel ambassador to the U.S gives the hectoring Barbara Frum a time when she attempts her usual you stopped beating your wife" examination.
It is the reporting of the news saddens one . . . angers one.
Night after night, as soon as > the incursion into Lebanon took place, an before the bombardment of the PLO ir Beirut, we were witness to horre footage of death and destruction in Lebanon. The ferocity of the onsl against the rag-tag"guerrillas" wh nothing but a paltry number of rocke hand weapons, and cotild not possibh been a serious threat to Israel, emphasized again and again.
The results of indiscriminate pou of homes, shops, hospitals and s^ were subject for the zoom lenses.
The utter destruction of Sidor Damour were graphically prese Rubble and craters adorned our sc relieved only by the vision of f refijgees, injured women and childre homeless with devastated expressio their faces.
Six hundred thousand Lebanese declared homeless; untold thousar civilians (12,000-and 20,000 wer uncommon figures cited) were re] . dead.
Hitlerian and Nazi comparative: accusations of "genocide" started to into editorials, opinion columns and to the editor: ■
Well.  What  was' wrong with reporting?" Didn't it happen? .
Yes, there was damage, destructic civilian death. The death of one innot appalling. But vvar is itself uglj appalling. There has not yet been where some civilians have not been maimed or dispossessed.
However, the enormity of the diff< ' between what was reality in this wj what was served up to viewers and r< is staggering.
What follows is a report from" th zone.
We traveled through Lebanon — Metulla — through Beaufort Castle, tlya, Tyre, Sidon, Dambhr and to thes of Beirut adjacent to the PLOrConi alrpiort. Wie werie the first civilians wh not professional re[>orters to be so cl the Beirut PLC enclave.
The village of Amun lies on the p On the approaches to the rear of Beau the Crusader PLO stronghold whic been the eyes of the terrorists f( bombardment of the Galilee for years,
Here there are houses demolished flat concrete roofs collapsed In on thei between these there are others substantial majority -— which ar touched, without a bullet hole. As y closer you can see that on virtually destroyed house, on a toppled doorj ,_the remains of a waU, there has painted hi red the symbol of. the he and sickle, accompanied by Arabic w These were the houses occupied I FLO. As In every other area of Le controlled by them they had mandeered" homes, taking what wanted, when they wanted it.
Their houses proudly displayed allegiance to the Soviets.
■ Insidethe rubble of some of them i seen jeeps with RPGs (anti-tank rec guns) mounted on them. No ini houses these!
The Israelis have captured PLO on place their military among the. pop One such order includes: "The.bi areas of Sidon and the nearby village excellent cover. The trees enable f camouflage and hiding of vehicle personnel. You must deploy in the bi areas of Sidon. in the refugee camf villagTs." " '
-In the rest ofthe village of Arm Lebanese hadjLSince the arrival ( Israelis, fashioned crude red, whit green Lebanese flags which thej proiJdly display on their doorposts.
Nabatiya was a major PLO headqui It was deliberately placed., as in all locations, close by and with the r< camps.
Canadians, like Americans, Britis Europeans, haye been led to believ Nabatiya was flattened by the Israeli i Whilethe PLO locations and the camp surrounding it were destroyed i pitched b.attle,-the town is, in fact, There is hardly a^b^uilding show^ing si war. The southern outskirts are fiill o unfinished, homes.xIt is a bu crowded, dusty town, jammed with i Few Lebanese flags are in\evidence but another type of display isto be si thestore frontsand houses: \
Photographs of the faces pf youn stare from these walls. They.are of men executed by the PLO for fail co-operate with them and therefo
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