All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

[Hollie]

Palestinian Authority, Fatah Glorify Fathi Khazem, Father Of Two Terrorists Killed In Clashes With Israeli Armed Forces: He Is A 'Palestinian Icon' And An Emblem Of Sacrifice

Four Palestinian terrorists – 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Khazem, Ahmad 'Alawneh, Muhammad Barahama and Muhammad Abu Na'sa – who were wanted by Israel for planning terror attacks were killed on September 28, 2022, in exchanges of fire with Israeli security forces in the Jenin refugee camp.

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Fathi Khazem: I Thank Allah For The Martyrdom Of My Sons, Urge Members Of PA Security Forces To Join This Path.






Just guessing here, fathi, but no one from the PA is going to take one for the gee-had. They have obvious assurance that plenty of willing, sacrificial stooges who have bought into the gee-had means virgins ideology will be an endless supply of cheap, disposable propaganda vehicles.

 

[P F Tinmore]

UNRWA is in charge of the Islamic terrorist propaganda and welfare begging component of the Pally refugee scam.

Has nothing to do with my post.

 

[Hollie]

Has nothing to do with my post.

Incorrect.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Yesterday, Gaza photojournalist Hosam Salem tweeted that his contract with the New York Times had been terminated. Here's his thread:

After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, I was informed via an abrupt phone call from the US outlet that they will no longer work with me in the future.
I began working with the newspaper in 2018, covering critical events in Gaza such as the weekly protests at the border fence with Israel, the investigation into the Israeli killing of field nurse Razan al-Najjar, and more recently, the May 2021 Israeli offensive on the Gaza strip
As I understood later, the decision was made based on a report prepared by a Dutch editor - who obtained Israeli citizenship two years ago - for a website called Honest Reporting.
The article, which the New York Times had based its decision for dismissing me, gives examples of posts I wrote on my social media accounts, namely Facebook, where I had expressed support for the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation...
... My aforementioned posts also spoke of the resilience of my people and those who were killed by the Israeli army - my cousin included - which Honest Reporting described as “Palestinian terrorists”.
The editor later wrote an article stating that he had succeeded in sacking three Palestinian journalists working for the New York Times in the Gaza Strip, on the basis of us being "anti-Semitic”.
Not only has Honest Reporting succeeded in terminating my contract with The New York Times, it has also actively discouraged other international news agencies from collaborating with me and my two colleagues.
What is taking place is a systematic effort to distort the image of Palestinian journalists as being incapable of trustworthiness and integrity, simply because we cover the human rights violations that the Palestinian people undergo on a daily basis at hands of the Israeli army

He doesn't link to the Honest Reporting article that shows that he praised the massacre of four rabbis and a Druze policeman in 2014, that he has repeatedly praised suicide bombers that killed 10 in 2004, and he has continued to explicitly support terror attacks even after starting his work with the Times:

On November 18, 2014, Hosam Salem again used Facebook to express his joy over the massacre of four rabbis and an Israeli-Druze police officer in a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof.
Citing the Quran, he encouraged his followers to “smite the necks” of unbelievers, adding: “[This is the] summary of the Jerusalem operation [sic] today.”

There’s more. In 2015, Salem applauded two acts of terror (see here and here); a shooting at the Gush Etzion Junction that killed an American teenager, an Israeli man, and a Palestinian bystander; and a Jerusalem stabbing that killed three.
Some three years later, after being hired by The New York Times, Salem called for more violence following an attack that killed two IDF recruits in the West Bank. “Shoot, kill, withdraw: three quick operational steps…to bring peace to the hearts of sad people like us,” the inciting post read.
Finally, he has repeatedly eulogized Mohammed Salem and Nabil Masoud. The two were responsible for a 2004 suicide bombing that killed ten workers at the Ashdod port, Israel’s second-busiest harbor (see here and here).

(It is possible that suicide bomber Mahmoud Salem was a relative.)

Now let's look at Salem's words defending himself again. "I had expressed support for the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation..." That is an admission that he considers praising murdering innocent people to be "supporting Palestinian resistance."

And he concludes by saying that "What is taking place is a systematic effort to distort the image of Palestinian journalists as being incapable of trustworthiness and integrity..."

Salem is positioning his explicit support of terror as being a mainstream view among all Palestinian journalists. He says that exposing his praise of terror attacks is an attack on all Palestinian journalists.

In other words, he is saying that his opinions are mainstream, not anomalous.

If a Zionist would say that all Palestinian journalists cannot be trusted to be objective because they all support terror, the Zionist would properly be branded a bigot. Each journalist must be judged on their own merits and their own words. Stereotyping them is wrong.

But what does it mean when a Palestinian journalist insists that all Palestinian journalists like him support terror? When he claims that his noxious support for murdering rabbis and others is simply the same "covering human rights violations" that all reporters supposedly do? He isn't apologizing for his views - he is claiming that he, like all Palestinian journalists, is just covering the news. Praising the murders of Jews is indistinguishable from journalism.

He puts all Palestinian journalists in the same bucket as himself. (And so does Al Jazeera.) Does that make him a racist?

The reality is that support for terror is a mainstream Palestinian opinion, across multiple surveys for decades. Sometimes the majority support terror, other times is drops to less than 50%, but it is always an accepted, popular opinion. Assuming that all Palestinians support terror is indeed racist, but understanding that there is a high chance that a random Palestinian who is hired for a position at a major Western media outlet might indeed be a terror supporter is prudent. As the New York Times has learned, vetting one's social media posts before hiring anyone is essential.

As far as the many who are claiming that Salem is the victim of anti-Palestinian racism, they are the ones who are racist - because they are claiming that all Palestinians support murdering Jews.

When a Palestinian journalist @HosanSalemG says that all Palestinian journalists support terror, is he an anti-Palestinian racist?

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Al-Akhbar says that Palestinians have to atone for Jewish sins on Yom Kippur, because the entire country virtually shuts down.

It claims that even in Arab cities, "it is prohibited to drive vehicles or motorbikes, smoke shisha, grill meat, and operate loudspeakers throughout the city.”

To Israel haters, Yom Kippur is all a malicious excuse to punish Arabs. "The enemy authorities do not miss the tenth day of the Hebrew year without tightening their noose around the Palestinians; On this occasion, it deliberately subjects their areas to a state of curfew, as well as imposing restrictions on their daily habits, such as the prohibition of barbecue or smoking water pipes in public, even preventing them from practicing their jobs, professions and jobs."

This appears to be a lie. In mixed Jewish-Arab cities there is a voluntary curfew but there is no legal restrictions on driving, as far as I can tell. And, as the New York Times reports: "In Arab-majority cities, life continues almost as normal." But it does appear that some restrictions were placed on the old city at Acre.

Here is a photo in that NYT article of an outdoor restaurant open in Israel on Yom Kippur.





Most bizarrely, Al Akhbar makes the claim that on Ramadan, "can anyone imagine a situation in which Muslims prevent Jews from eating and drinking out of respect for their feelings, or to close their restaurants to prevent violating the sanctity of the holy month?! Of course not!"

But in fact in most Muslim majority countries those are exactly the restrictions that non-Muslims have to adhere to during the entire month! The Egyptian government religious authority ruled in 2016, "Eating publicly during the day in Ramadan is not within the personal freedoms of a person. It's a type of anarchy and an attack on the sacredness of Islam. Eating publicly during the day in Ramadan is sinning in public. This is forbidden, as well as offending public taste and decency in Muslim countries. It's also a flagrant violation of the sanctity of society and the right of its sacred beliefs to be respected."

The official UAE site says:

Non-Muslims do not have to fast in Ramadan. However, they are prohibited from eating, drinking and smoking in public during the fasting hours. This includes chewing gum.Additionally, ensure that you do not:

engage in any aggressive behaviour
dance or play music in public although you may listen to music quietly with headphones
wear inappropriate clothing in public
swear as blasphemy is considered extra offensive during Ramadan
refuse a gift, or an invitation to join someone at Iftar.

Arab media says Yom Kippur curfew in Israel is meant to punish Arabs

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[Sixties Fan]

A few days before Yom Kippur, Naftali Rabinovitch, who serves as the Israeli United Hatzalah Chief of Operations in Ukraine, received an urgent phone call. The woman on the other end of the phone said that she is the granddaughter of an older woman who lives in the city of Lyman, in the embattled province of Donetsk, and that her grandmother was in need of urgent medical attention and transportation out of Lyman.

The city of Lyman has been a flashpoint following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has recently come under heavy fire as both sides struggle for control of the province which was seized by Russian-backed militants in 2014. Donetsk, together with the Luhansk province, makes up the region called Donbas and Russia has stated that they recently annexed the region.

Lyman was retaken by Ukrainian forces over the weekend, making an extraction in the city by a Ukrainian ambulance now possible. While uncertain how long the city would stay in Ukrainian hands, Naftali saw the window of opportunity and raced for it. He dispatched a pair of ambulance drivers who work with United Hatzalah in Ukraine, Alexander Valerovitz and Vadim Aniboritzog, on a mission that resulted in the grandmother’s life being saved and her returning to her family in the city of Uzhgorod.

(full article online)

Israelis Dodge Bullets to Save Holocaust Survivor in Ukraine | United with Israel

Two Israeli United Hatzalah volunteers traveled into Donetsk to rescue an elderly Holocaust survivor, often coming under fire.

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[Sixties Fan]

Israel prepared for a possible confrontation with Hezbollah after rejecting increased demands from Lebanon in maritime border talks on Thursday.


Defense Minister Benny Gantz instructed the defense establishment "to prepare for any scenario in which tensions increase in the northern arena - including defensive and offensive readiness," his office said.


The instruction came following a situational assessment along with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, Defense Ministry director-general Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amir Eshel and head of the Operations Directorate Maj.-Gen. Oded Basiuk.

“Prime Minister Lapid made clear that he will not compromise on Israel’s security and economic interests even if it means there will not be an agreement soon,” the source said.


More specifically, the source said, one of the demands from Lebanon that Lapid rejected is that Total Energy, the French company with the license to develop the Kana gas field, buy out the portion of the reservoir in Israeli waters, whereas the proposal to which Israel agreed had Total pay royalties for the gas extracted from its waters.


Exploration has not yet begun in Kana and the amount of gas in the reservoir remains unknown, such that an immediate buyout could fall short of the actual value of the gas in Israeli waters.

Lebanon refuses to accept 'buoy line'​

Another element that Lapid rejected is Lebanon's refusal to accept the "buoy line" as a border. The line in question is an obstacle extending 5 km. into the sea from Rosh Hanikra, on the border with Lebanon. The government has argued the line was vulnerable because Israel had established it unilaterally as a zone necessary for the Jewish state to have freedom of action for its security, and the agreement with Lebanon will anchor that line in international law.


The "buoy line" is what Lapid's government has presented as the primary achievement of the negotiations in terms of Israeli security. However, in the ensuing days, Lebanon asked to change the language describing the "buoy line" to avoid accepting it as an international border.


Even as Israel rejects those demands, it “will extract gas from the Karish rig at the moment that it will be possible,” the source stated.


Karish, an Israeli gas field, is adjacent to Kana, a reservoir that spans Lebanese and Israeli waters, as well as the area in dispute. Energean, which holds the Israeli license for Karish, set up a rig about 70 km from Haifa’s shores in June and has worked towards extracting gas, while Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah threatened to attack if Karish becomes operative.



(full article online)

Israel readies for war with Hezbollah after Lebanon ups maritime demands

Yair Lapid rejects Lebanese proposal to reverse Israeli security, economic gains from US-mediated agreement

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[Sixties Fan]

The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding no. At the moment, the P.A. is incapable of upholding any security pledge it might make to Israel or the United States. As a result, the P.A. cannot meet the minimum requirement for a state.

The supreme test for a stable, sustainable and legitimate state is a monopoly on the use of force within the territories it controls. In the case of the P.A., this territory is currently composed of Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria—constituting around 40% of the area. The P.A. does not have the capability or willingness to confront the armed factions in these areas, never mind an expanded area provided for a Palestinian state. Moreover, the P.A. does not control an inch of the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of the terrorist entity Hamas, which sometimes appears to hate the P.A. and its chief Mahmoud Abbas even more than the Jews.

According to Melanne Civic and Michael Miklaucic in their book Monopoly of Force, “While no state has an absolute monopoly of force, to be accountable for actions taken within its borders, a state must have at least a preponderance of force; it must be able to prevent hostile acts toward other states. This is a minimum assumption of effective sovereignty.” The belief that the P.A. would be capable of this minimal level of sovereignty is wishful thinking.

The current unrest in Judea and Samaria is a perfect example of the P.A.’s ineptitude. The cities of Jenin and Nablus in Area A and B are lawless spaces controlled by a toxic mixture of armed elements of Abbas’ Fatah Party, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, among others. If Israel were not doing the P.A.’s dirty work, these groups would not only attack citizens of the Jewish state but, within a short time, overthrow the P.A. itself.

According to Efraim Inbar, the president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, “To a significant extent, the P.A. is a failed state, defined by the lack of a monopoly on the use of force. … Abbas shied away from confronting the armed gangs and failed to centralize the security services. Indeed, the P.A. lost control of Gaza to Hamas and has continuous difficulties dismantling militias in the territory under its formal control.”

Ordinary Palestinian citizens are responding to this by arming themselves—a logical decision under the circumstances. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, “We need to recognize that in an imperfect world, we cannot blame a man for wanting to maintain his arms for the protection of his family, land and community when all around him is chaos, lawlessness and corruption, with little or no opportunity.” This is the environment created by an impotent P.A. The vacuum is being filled by terrorists, thugs and Islamist fanatics.

The willful delusion that the P.A. would have a monopoly of force in any proposed state would be laughable if it were not so dangerous. Indeed, the most likely outcome of the creation of a Palestinian state is a Hamas coup. One can support the two-state solution, but refusing to acknowledge that there is no entity capable of a monopoly of force in a Palestinian state—except perhaps for Hamas—is a danger to Israel’s existence and undermines American interests, which depend on a stable Israel. For the foreseeable future, the only realistic option is the status quo.


(full article online)

The Palestinian Authority cannot meet the most basic requirement for statehood

The P.A. is a failure without a monopoly on the use of force.

www.jns.org

 

[P F Tinmore]

Ordinary Palestinian citizens are responding to this by arming themselves—a logical decision under the circumstances. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, “We need to recognize that in an imperfect world, we cannot blame a man for wanting to maintain his arms for the protection of his family, land and community when all around him is chaos, lawlessness and corruption, with little or no opportunity.” This is the environment created by an impotent P.A. The vacuum is being filled by terrorists, thugs and Islamist fanatics.

Cool.

 

[Hollie]

Cool.

"... when all around him is chaos, lawlessness and corruption, ...''

An apt description of the territories occupied by the Islamic terrorists.

 

[P F Tinmore]

"... when all around him is chaos, lawlessness and corruption, ...''

An apt description of the territories occupied by the Islamic terrorists.

The PA Bomb. The PA has about 70,000 armed police. Their job is to protect Israel. They are under the direct command of Abbas.

What is going to happen when Abbas dies or the PA collapses? Where are those men going to go? Who will take command? Who is going to get all of those guns? The PA is already starting to lose control.

Just something to think about.

 

[Hollie]

The PA Bomb. The PA has about 70,000 armed police. Their job is to protect Israel. They are under the direct command of Abbas.

What is going to happen when Abbas dies or the PA collapses? Where are those men going to go? Who will take command? Who is going to get all of those guns? The PA is already starting to lose control.

Just something to think about.

Convert to Shia Islam and kiss the ring of a mullahcrat.

You know it’s what you want.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Speaking to Israel National News (INN) on Thursday, Israel’s police commissioner said he and his team draw strength and motivation from the tens of thousands of visitors to the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.

“We are happy to see Jerusalem with tens of thousands who come to pray at the Western Wall and the crowds who come to the Temple Mount. This gives us, as the police, the motivation and the strength to invest and put as many police officers as possible in as many places as possible to allow everyone to celebrate the holidays,” Kobi Shabtai told INN.


(full article online)

Israel's police chief 'happy' to see unprecedented crowds of Jews visiting Temple Mount | World Israel News

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai told INN that the officers are inspired by the tens of thousands of Jews visiting the holy sites, 'but within the existing guidelines.'

worldisraelnews.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur of the "Occupied Palestinian Territories," had a telling exchange with NGO Monitor's Anne Herzberg.

Herzberg, commenting on the reported kidnapping and beheading of a gay Palestinian man, tweeted, "Horrific. Will you be reporting on this @FranceskAlbs?"

Albanese subtweeted, "Passive-aggressiveness of the insinuation aside, I am impressed with certain people's talent for cherry-picking."

Herzberg: "It’s a legitimate question and falls under your mandate. So will you be addressing this case and other LGBTQ+ violations in the PA by Palestinian authorities and armed groups?"

Albanese acted offended: "Of course, I am even surprised you are asking such a question. I intend to investigate all human rights violations, and my visit to the occupied Palestinian territory is particularly necessary to this end."

Of course the UN Special Rapporteur will investigate Palestinian human rights abuses! How dare anyone question that?

Perhaps because since she assumed that position, she has called for submissions for three reports that are meant to attack Israel and none to investigate Palestinian human rights abuses? The three reports are titled, "Deprivation of liberty in the occupied Palestinian territory," "Thematic report to the UN General Assembly on the right to self-determination [for Palestinians only]" and "Is the Israeli conduct of its occupation of the Palestinian Territory in breach of the prohibition against apartheid in international law?"

Perhaps because virtually every tweet since she started the position has been anti-Israel? She has never mentioned Palestinian terror spree earlier this year, she never mentioned the Palestinian Authority or Hamas attacks on their own media freedoms or freedom to assemble, she never mentioned the anti-woman laws on the books in the PA, and she never mentioned Palestinian rockets killing Palestinian children.

The only time she said anything negative about any Palestinians - about rocket fire - she made sure that the tweets emphasized that everything Israel does it worse.

Here she almost agrees that Gaza rocket fire, while regrettable, is almost justified.



And here she pretty much says that Palestinians can aim to kill Israelis and Israel cannot defend itself.




Given this track record, does anyone honestly think Albanese will ever report anything negative about Palestinians outside of Gaza rocket fire?

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, absurdly pretends that she is objective.

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On October 2, 2022, hundreds of Muslim intellectuals and Islamists online marked the anniversary of the 1187 conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin, the Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who took the city from the Crusaders. Many of those who commented on the anniversary circulated videos and posters produced by the Qatar-based-and-funded TV channel Al-Jazeera marking the anniversary and providing historical details about the conquest. In recent years, the channel has taken to marking historical Islamic conquests, especially by Qatar's Islamist ally Turkey, on social media. As they marked the anniversary, the users expressed their hope and conviction that Muslims will take over Jerusalem again sooner or later.

(full article online)

Marking The Anniversary Of Saladin's Conquest Of Jerusalem, Muslim Intellectuals, Islamists Express Hope, Conviction That Muslims Will Reconquer Jerusalem

Hundreds of Muslim intellectuals and Islamists online marked on October 2, 2022, the anniversary of the 1187 conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin, the Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who took the city from the Crusaders.

www.memri.org

 

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Arabs Riot And Attempt To Lynch Jewish Family in Northern Jerusalem -

Share on FacebookTweet WhatsappA Jewish family was attacked by a group of Arabs while driving through the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem yesterday. Police were called to the scene of…

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Tom Nides: I Work Every Day to “Eliminate” Jews from Judea and Samaria (Judean Rose)

Tom Nides tells the JTA he works every day behind the scenes to eliminate any Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.

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Terrified of Putin, 13 NATO Countries Want Israel’s Arrow 3

The Arrow 3 can intercept ballistic missiles, especially those carrying weapons of mass destruction.

www.jewishpress.com

 

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Peace with Israel, Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming

Though Israeli import laws favor domestically grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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How many times has the New York Times explored the “emotions” of, or difficulties encountered by, non-Christian minorities on religious national holidays like Christmas and Easter in Catholic or Christian-majority countries?

That is the tack taken by Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley in his dispatch about Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year, that is observed throughout the Jewish state of Israel.

Headlined “For Believers, a Day of Atonement. For Others, a Giant Playground” (online, posted Oct. 5 which coincided with Yom Kippur) and “A Day of Full, Solemn Synagogues, and Empty, Silent Roads” (print, Oct. 6), the dispatch is ostensibly about how the country observes the Jewish holiday. But while Kingsley fleetingly mentions that “more than half of Israeli Jews attend synagogue on Yom Kippur for at least part of the ceremonies, according to polling in 2019 by the Israel Democracy Institute,” his primary focus is on highlighting the secular entertainment of Israel’s Jewish citizens on that holiday, based on interviews with a few chosen individuals, and emphasizing “the spectrum of emotions” of a minority of non-Jewish Israeli citizens — “Palestinian” citizens, as Kingsley labels them – many of whom, he claims, find the national celebration of Judaism’s holiest day “restrictive.”

Had Kingsley reported more precisely on the surveyhe briefly cited, readers would have learned that 61% of Israeli Jews were considering making an appearance at a synagogue on Yom Kippur and that 72.5% were considering either partially or completely fasting on that day (a religious requirement on Yom Kippur).

In other words, Kingsley’s dispatch downplays the religious significance of the national holiday to the majority of Israel’s Jewish citizens while highlighting the inconveniences of the holiday’s observance to its non-Jewish citizens.

He also makes a point of emphasizing that Palestinian workers from the West Bank, i.e. non-citizens of Israel, are “depriv[ed] of a day’s wages” due to the shutdown of the Jewish state and the closing of checkpoints into the country. The reporter goes on to describe a gun battle “between militants and the Israel Army near Nablus” that took place during an arrest operation of a “Palestinian fighter” on the holiday.

Who does Kingsley label a “fighter” with its connotation of heroism and resistance? The reference is to Salman Imran, a member of Hamas who was arrested by Israeli forces on suspicion of firing on a Jewish school bus and taxicab and injuring the driver, two days earlier.

Labelling a Hamas terrorist a “fighter,” highlighting the inconveniences of a Jewish holiday to Palestinian workers from the West Bank and to those the NYT increasingly refers to as “Palestinian citizens of Israel,” and downplaying the religious importance of Judaism’s holiest day to the majority of Jews in Israel all serve the same Palestinian narrative and ultimate purpose – eroding Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.

Yom Kippur in Israel by the New York Times

In the New York Times, an article about the observance of Judaism's holiest day, Yom Kippur, becomes a vehicle for eroding Israel's legitimacy as

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