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) Israel is now
history. We no longer
recognize the State of Israel. There is no way back. The
State of Israel has raped the world's recognition and will
not achieve peace until it lays down its arms. The State of
Israel, in its present form is history, writes Jostein
Gaarder. GOD'S
CHOSEN PEOPLE
By Jostein
Gaarder There's no turning
back. It's time to learn a new lesson: We no longer
recognize the State of Israel. We could not recognize the
apartheid regime of South Africa, nor did we recognize the
Afghani Taliban regime. Then there were many who did not
recognize Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Serbs' ethnic
cleansing. We need to get used to the idea: The State of
Israel, in its current form, is history. We don't believe in
the notion of God's Chosen People. We laugh at this people's
capriciousness and weep at its misdeeds. To act as God's
Chosen People is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime
against humanity. We call it racism. Limits to
tolerance There are limits to
our patience, and there are limits to our tolerance. We do
not believe in divine promises as a justification for
occupation and apartheid. We have left the Middle Ages
behind. We laugh uneasily at those who still believe that
the god of flora, fauna and the galaxies has selected one
people in particular as his favorite and given it silly,
stone tablets, burning bushes and a license to
kill. We call baby
killers "baby killers" and will never accept that people
such as these have a divine or historic mandate excusing
their outrages. We just say: Shame on all apartheid, shame
on ethnic cleansing and shame on every terrorist strike
against civilians whether carried out by Hamas, the
Hezbollah or the State of Israel! Unscrupulous art
of war We acknowledge, and
pay heed to, Europe's deep responsibility for the plight of
the Jews, for the disgraceful harassment, the pogroms and
the Holocaust. It was historically and morally necessary for
the Jews to get their own home. However, the State of
Israel, with its unscrupulous art of war and its disgusting
weapons, has massacred its own legitimacy. It has
systematically flaunted International Law, international
conventions, and countless UN resolutions and can no longer
expect protection from the same. It has carpet bombed the
recognition of the world. But fear not! The Tribulation will
soon be over. The State of Israel has seen its
Soweto. We are now at the
watershed. There's no turning back. The State of Israel has
raped the recognition of the world and shall have no peace
until it lays down its arms. Without defense,
without skin May the spirit and the
word blow the apartheid walls of Israel down. The State of
Israel does not exist. It is now without defense, without
skin. May the world therefore have mercy upon the civilian
population; for our prophecies of doom are not aimed at the
civilian individuals. We wish the people of
Israel well, nothing but wellness, but we reserve the right
to not eat Jaffa oranges as long as they are foul tasting
and poisonous. It was endurable for some years to live
without eating the blue grapes of apartheid. They celebrate
their triumphs We don't believe that
Israel grieves any more for the forty killed Lebanese
children than it has wailed over the forty years spent in
the desert three thousand years ago. We note that many
Israelis celebrate such triumphs in the same manner they
once cheered the plagues of the Lord as "fitting punishment"
for the people of Egypt. (In that tale, the Lord God of
Israel appears as an insatiable sadist.) We ask ourselves if
most Israelis think that one Israeli life is worth more than
the forty Palestinian or Lebanese lives. For we've seen
pictures of little Israeli girls writing hateful greetings
on the bombs about to be dropped on the civilian populations
of Lebanon and Palestine. The little Israeli girls are not
cute when they strut with glee at the death and torment on
the other side of the fronts. The retribution
of blood vengeance We do not recognize
the rhetoric of the State of Israel. We do not recognize the
spiral of retribution and blood vengeance that comes with
"an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." We do not
recognize the principle of ten or a thousand Arab eyes for
one Israeli eye. We do not recognize collective punishment
or population thinning out as a political weapon. Two
thousand years have passed since a Jewish rabbi criticized
the ancient doctrine of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth." He said: "Do unto
others as you would have them do unto you." We do not
recognize a state founded on anti-humanistic principles and
on the ruins of an archaic national and warlike religion.
Or, as Albert Schweitzer expressed it: "Humanitarianism
consists of never sacrificing a human being for a
cause." Compassion and
forgiveness We do not recognize
the old Kingdom of David as a model for the 21st century map
of the Middle East. The Jewish rabbi claimed two thousand
years ago that the Kingdom of God is not a martial
restoration of the Kingdom of David; the Kingdom of God is
within us and amongst us. The Kingdom of God is compassion
and forgiveness. Two thousand years
have passed since the Jewish rabbi disarmed and thoroughly
humanized the old rhetoric of war. Even in his time, the
first Zionist terrorists were operating. Israel doesn't
listen For two thousand
years, we have rehearsed the syllabus of humanism, but
Israel doesn't listen. It wasn't the Pharisee who helped the
man who lay by the wayside, having fallen prey to robbers.
It was a Samaritan; today we would say, a Palestinian. We
are humans firstly - then Christian, Muslim, or Jew. Or as
the Jewish rabbi said: "And if you greet your brethren only,
what more do you do than others?" We do not accept the
kidnapping of soldiers. But neither do we accept the
deportation of whole populations or the abduction of legally
elected parliamentarians and government
ministers. We recognize the State
of Israel of 1948, but not the one of 1967. It is the State
of Israel that fails to recognize, respect or defer to the
internationally lawful Israeli state of 1948. Israel wants
more - more water and more villages. To obtain this there
are those who want, with God's assistance, a final solution
to the Palestinian problem. 'The Palestinians have so many
other countries', certain Israeli politicians have argued;
we have only one. The U.S. or the
world? Or as the foremost
protector of the State of Israel puts it: "May God continue
to bless America." A little child took note of that. She
turned to her mother, saying: "Why does the President always
end his speeches with 'God bless America'? Why not, 'God
bless the world'?" Then there was a
Norwegian poet who let out this childlike sigh of the heart:
"Why doth Humanity so slowly progress?" It was he who wrote
so beautifully of the Jew and the Jewess. But he rejected
the notion of God's Chosen People. He personally liked to
call himself a Muslim. Calmness and
mercy We do not recognize
the State of Israel. Not today, not as of this writing, not
in the hour of grief and wrath. If the entire Israeli nation
should fall to its own devices and parts of the population
has to flee their occupied areas into another Diaspora, then
we say: May their surroundings stay calm and show them
mercy. It is an eternal crime, without mitigating
circumstances, to lay hand on refugees and a stateless
people. Peace and free passage
for the evacuating, civilian population no longer protected
by a State. Shoot not at the fugitives! Take not aim at
them! They are vulnerable now -- like snails without shells,
vulnerable as slow caravans of the Palestinian and Lebanese
refugees, defenseless as the women, children and elderly of
Qana, Gaza, Sabra and Shatilla. Give the Israeli refugees
shelter; give them milk and honey! Let not one Israeli
child pay with his life. Far too many children and civilians
have already been murdered. Public Awareness
Management is one of the leading strategies to maintain the
status quo. Consequences can be found even within circles of
critically reasoning people. An uprising of humanity
however cannot be blocked for ever. Public Awareness
Management - This
video is about how reporting about Middle East is
done (1h20min) Well - within this
context of unimpeeded flow of information there is a strong
impulse to draw attention to one of Noam Chomsky's
recent interviews 'Apocalypse Near'. The full
text may be found here. So just a few quotes
from that interview to prove the delusive effects of a
'successful' Public Awareness Management: Chomsky: Let us
begin with Iran. In 2003, Iran offered to negotiate
all outstanding issues with the US, including nuclear
issues and a two-state solution to the
Israel-Palestine conflict. The offer was made by the
moderate Khatami government, with the support of the
hard-line 'supreme leader' Ayatollah Khamenei.
The Bush administration response was to
censure the Swiss diplomat who brought the
offer. ... Chomsky: The US and
Israel do not want to hear any of this. They also do
not want to hear that Iran appears to be the only
country to have accepted the proposal by IAEA director
Mohammed El Baradei that all weapons-usable fissile
materials be placed under international control, a
step towards a verifiable Fissile Materials Cutoff
Treaty. El Baradei's
proposal, if implemented, would not only end the
Iranian nuclear crisis but would also deal with a
vastly more serious crisis: The growing
threat of nuclear war, which leads prominent strategic
analysts to warn of 'apocalypse soon' (Robert
McNamara) if policies continue on their current
course. ... Chomsky: It is
commonly said that the 'international community' has
called on Iran to abandon its legal right to enrich
uranium. That is true, if we define the 'international
community' as Washington and whoever happens to go
along with it. It is surely not true of the world. The
non-aligned countries have forcefully endorsed Iran's
'inalienable right' to enrich uranium. And, rather
remarkably, in Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia, a majority of the population favor accepting a
nuclear-armed Iran over any American military action,
international polls reveal.
... Chomsky: It is also
of some interest that when Iran was ruled by the
tyrant installed by a US-UK military coup, the United States
- including Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kissinger, Wolfowitz and
others - strongly supported the Iranian nuclear
programs they now condemn and helped provide Iran with
the means to pursue them. These facts are surely not
lost on the Iranians, just as they have not forgotten
the very strong support of the US and its allies for
Saddam Hussein during his murderous aggression,
including help in developing the chemical
weapons that killed hundreds of thousands of
Iranians. ...... So please, all of you,
try the utmost to withstand or even better to unmask
all the faked threats which are to blind us from the real
ones. The more commited we are and the more numerous
we are, the more likely it will be that those in power
will not use it against a confessing majority in
public.
Starhawk
speaks about the positive feed back loops which keep the
disaster running and even more important, she draws a
picture at large: While the Bombs
Fall While the bombs fall
in Lebanon, I'm teaching a two-week course in permaculture:
regenerative, ecological design, with a schedule so
demanding that I find it hard to check email every day, let
alone watch the news. But it comes in, between lesser
messages about leaks in the watering system in the garden
and flight cancellations: pictures of dead children on the
road. I feel horrified, angry, frustrated, powerless...all
the things I'm used to feeling about the situation, but more
so. I try to write something in the spare moments when my
teaching partner Penny is covering rain catchment or
graywater systems, but all I keep writing, over and over, is
'Killing children is wrong.' That sees so self-evident and
banal that I can't quite bring myself to send it out. Or
rather, it doesn't seem to add much to a discussion in which
the decision makers are so convinced that killing our
children is very, very wrong, but killing their children is
the Path of Righteousness. While the Congress and
Senate are voting their support for Israel's actions, I am
teaching systems theory and strategy, including an essay by
Donella Meadows, 'Nine Ways to Intervene in a System (in
increasing order of effectiveness.) The least effective way,
she says, is by changing amounts. Please, General, can we
drop fewer bombs? Can we keep it proportional? Could we
scale down to killing just maybe two of their children for
every one of ours, instead of ten? The situation itself
is a perfect example of what she calls a positive feedback
loop. I find the term confuses people, as there is often
nothing positive about it. I call it a self-reinforcing
cycle. Whichever, it means a situation in which the more you
have of something the more you get, and the more you need.
You kill some of my children so I kill more of yours, so you
kill more of mine, so I kill even more of yours. Self-reinforcing
cycles are engines of change, for better or worse. They get
more and more extreme, until either some new constraint
enters to impose a new equilibrium, or they crash.
Hurricanes suck up energy from the heat in the sea, and grow
bigger, sucking more energy, which makes them bigger still,
until they hit land and blow themselves out. Addicts keep
taking more of what they're addicted to, until they hit
bottom, whether the addiction is to alcohol or heroin or
military intervention. This quality of
systems does not bode well-either for the children of Beirut
or those of Haifa. Europe and the UN might make some weak
attempts to intervene, but as long as the U.S. is cheering
the Israeli government on, no serious constraints will be
imposed. And why shouldn't we cheer them on, when Israel's
addiction to force as a solution is the mirror of ours?
We're the big guy and the small guy, standing each other
drinks at the pub and throwing the chairs at anyone who
threatens us, until we smash the place. It is this very
self-reinforcing cycle that keeps power in the hands of the
neo-cons, whose answer to every fear and insecurity is more
force. Force which creates more fear, which generates more
violence, which requires more force to keep down. It's an
inherent aspect of being caught in this sort of system that
as it begins to spiral out of control, and starts to break
apart, the only solution you can see is more of the same. An
alcoholic gets fired for drinking on the job, and drinks
more to forget. Iraq is not working out well for Bush and
the neocons, so bring in more troops, or expand the
war-Lebanon, Syria, Iran. You can't change a
self-reinforcing system by changing amounts. Recovering
alcoholics know this, generals and politicians don't. Try to
limit yourself to one drink before dinner, and somehow you
still end up behind the wheel of the car that careens into
the bus full of schoolchildren on the road. Tell yourself
that you are using a measured, limited response for
well-thought out political aims, and you still end up with
blackened torsos and the severed limbs of infants in smoking
piles on the motorway. Here's some other
things we know about these cycles-they are expensive. They
consume resources. Drinking up the children's milk money
down at the local. Starving every social program to fund our
military. And when they crash, they often fall hardest on
the undeserving. The drunk behind the wheel rolls out of the
crushed car, unharmed, while the family of five lies dead.
The policy makers are not cringing in tenements as bombs
fall, or crying over the bleeding body of their most beloved
child. Nor are most of those who support the policies. Yet.
To change the system,
you need to change the paradigm, the way you frame the
situation and think about it, the deep assumptions that
shape your viewpoint. That's Donella Meadows' most effective
way to intervene-changing the world view and the constructs
that support the system. It's also, generally, a hard and
painful process. A new paradigm, a new
construct of self and world, goes against everything we know
and believe. If I'm telling myself that I'm a fun-loving,
party kind of a gal - how painful to instead admit that I'm
an alcoholic! If I'm justifying the deaths of children by
telling myself that I'm bringing democracy to the region, or
safeguarding my sister's children in Hadera, or fulfilling
God's plan, how painful to look at the broken bodies on the
pavement and say, 'I did that. I have blood on my hands.'
I'm thinking about one
of the many fruitless arguments I've had about the issue,
this one with an ultra-Orthodox rabbi's wife, shortly after
I'd returned from doing solidarity work with the nonviolent
Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the West Bank. I tried to
describe to her what I'd seen in that bullet-riddled,
shell-shocked land, the ongoing, everyday horrors and
humiliations and frustrations, the houses bulldozed, the
farmlands confiscated, the lives blunted and stunted and
blasted into oblivion, and at the end she said to me:
'But we're good. So if
we're doing it, it must be good.' That's one hard
paradigm to shift, because there is nowhere to go from that
pinnacle but down, no change we can make that doesn't
require us to face the possibility that maybe we are bad, or
at the very least, that we are good people doing some bad
things. From that vantage point, of course any critique, no
matter how measured, seems anti-Semitic, an assault on that
basic self-definition of Essential Goodness. While the killing
escalates, I am teaching about soil. How to feed the life of
the soil, how to encourage and nurture the worms and the
beneficial bacteria and fungi and other soil organisms. How
a healthy soil will grow healthy plants, that can resist
pests. Industrial
agriculture, in contrast, is based in the same exact
paradigm as our Iraq policy, one that was succinctly
expressed in a bumper sticker my first husband applied to
his van shortly before we broke up: 'Force, It Works!'
So, if corn borers are
attacking your crop, blast it with insecticides. Kill the
bastards! Are there weeds among the fields? Zap them with
roundup. Root feeding nematodes, perchance, below ground?
Blanket the whole thing in plastic, and gas it with methyl
bromide. Force-it works, for a
while, perhaps for short term goals. But force is costly.
And, whether we're employing force against bugs or bacteria
or human beings, force breeds resistance. And so insects that
survive the onslaught of the pesticides breed young that are
not affected. We up the doses, and breed more and more
resistant pests, which require more insecticides to kill, in
another self-reinforcing cycle. The helpful insects, the
predators that might have kept the pests in balance, are
wiped out. And the residues of poison remain, in the soil
and in the crops themselves. Human beings are not
insects or bacteria. The human resistance that force breeds
is not in the genes, but in hearts and minds. And so the
bombing of Beirut breeds rockets falling on Haifa and
airplane bombers in London, and all the assaults on South
Lebanon, the bombs and blown-up bridges and armed teenage
boys in uniform on the ground will breed more rockets yet,
more suicide bombs of the future, more death in retaliation.
And the devotion to
force is itself a toxin, poisoning the soil of Israeli
society, starving its own social programs, warping the very
soul and ethics of the religion it purports to defend.
How do we get out of
this mess? What would a regenerative paradigm look like as a
policy? If compost, worm castings and plants that feed
beneficial bugs are the gardening alternative to chemical
warfare, what would be the political parallel? From a purely
self-interested, Israeli point of view, a policy maker
coming from a regenerative paradigm might say: 'We can never stamp
our hatred, but let us not create habitat that favors its
growth. Instead, let us nurture health wherever we find it,
and create conditions that let flourish those who favor
peace.' So, in the nineties,
Israel could have said, 'We have a small window here, when
the Palestinians have settled for less than they could have
demanded. Let us move quickly to establish a Palestinian
state, with true areas of self determination for its people.
If the Occupation is a running sore, inflaming rage and
hatred throughout the Arab world and undermining our moral
credibility, how do we swiftly end it and transform the
region into a place of opportunity and hope? Where can we
support people's legitimate dreams and aspirations? How do
we support the health of the region's actual soil, the
vitality of its crops, the abundance of its markets, the
excellence of its Universities? How do we create such
flourishing abundance that this region becomes a shining
model for the whole Middle East?' Instead, Israel built
settlements, began a long term program of encroachment on
the tiny territory allocated to the Palestinians, and
maintained an Occupation backed by force. When Abbas was
elected, Israel could have said, 'How do we give him
victories and real gains that will strengthen his own
people's allegiance? And if corruption runs rampant in the
Palestinian Authority, then where are there leaders of
integrity we can ally with? And if Hammas is winning over
the people with its social programs, how do we feed a
healthy economy so that they become unnecessary?'
Instead, Israel
continued to build a wall which confiscates huge amounts of
Palestinian land without compensation, destroys the very
communities which historically have been most friendly to
Israel, unilaterally 'withdrew ' from Gaza while keeping it
surrounded, an isolated, open-air prisons with its resources
destroyed and its factions inflamed-creating a perfect
breeding habitat for yet more violence. There are a hundred
other missed opportunities. And there will be more. But the
longer the cycle goes on, the more damage is done, and the
harder it is to stop. Am I 'blaming' Israel
unfairly? Couldn't Hezbollah just stop shooting rockets, and
the Palestinian factions stop bombing? Yes, certainly they
could, and it would be good if they did. Children would live
who otherwise would die. When we're caught in a
self-reinforcing cycle, it's a fairly useless exercise to
ask, 'Who started it?' Or to debate whether one side or the
other has the 'right to defend itself' by continuing the
cycle. Far better to ask, 'Who is in position to stop this
cycle?' And it is Israel, the
occupier of the territory, the fourth largest military power
in the world, that sets the conditions of the region, that
has the power to create a habitat where violence flourishes,
or peace is favored. And I admit that I
want Israel to act as the moral agent it claims to be. I'm a
Jew who was raised with the dream of Israel, as a safe place
after the Holocaust, as a refuge in that visa-denying world
which sent boatloads of my people back to their deaths, as a
place where we could finally, after two thousand years, be
ourselves, in our own home. Among the many casualties of
this war is all that was good in that dream. Because of the pennies
I saved as a child to buy trees for the promised land,
because of the songs I grew up singing, because of the deep
well that was carved in my heart for that dream that now
spews anguish and blood, I have the right to an accounting
from those who have replaced the God of Justice with the God
of Force. The place has a
history of great prophets and lousy kings. There is nothing
more Jewish than thundering at the policy makers, saying
'Jahweh and Allah and all good-hearted people agree: killing
children is wrong. Just plain wrong, and when you do it you
have left the Path of Righteousness. The cost of force is
too high-it includes your soul.' Even as the bombs
fall, there are people choosing to come from new
assumptions. They are the Palestinians of the villages where
the wall is confiscating their farmland, choosing nonviolent
means of struggle, returning day after day to demonstrations
in which they get beaten, tear-gassed, arrested. They are
the Israelis and internationals who cross borders to stand
with them, saying, 'We are not 'Palestinians' and 'Israelis
', we are people together struggling against injustice.'
They are the Women in
Black, who stand in silent vigil for peace, year after year,
fleeing Katusha rockets and returning back to their stand
for peace. They are organizers of cross-cultural dialogues,
soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories or
to kill civilians, youth who refuse to don the explosives
belt. That these people
still exist, that they somehow grow out of the blasted,
toxic soil of the Middle East, gives us some reason to hope.
In spite of the million missed opportunities, the oceans of
spilled blood, the escalation of stupid policies, the
situation is not yet utterly without hope. But what can we do, we
who are not policy makers or generals or Queens of the
Middle East, who are simply ordinary people of compassion,
wringing our hands in front of the TV set. Every day, I hear
people ask, 'What can we do that will be effective?'
And for once, I can't
think of a damn thing. Never has political action felt so
futile. But I think about the
advice the great war journalist Robert Fisk received, for
surviving decades in Lebanon and other war zones. 'Do
something,' he was told. 'Don't do nothing.' So do something. While
we're waiting for the effective thing, do something even if
it seems small and futile. Write your representatives. Go to
the demonstration, or organize one. Educate yourself more
deeply, then talk to someone who has less information. Stand
in vigil with the Women in Black. Some of the founders of
the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine are
organizing nonviolent civil resistance in Lebanon. Join
them, or support them. Pray to those Gods who may secretly
resent being cast as child killers. Do something. We don't
know what the effective thing will be, may never know. But
if we do nothing, we will surely have no impact. And what do we say?
How do you stop a vicious cycle? Just stop. Stop now. Don't
wait until the enemy is utterly defeated, because your every
effort to defeat them strengthens the forces that created
them. Just stop. Not tomorrow, when our position is
stronger. Not the day after, when you have neutralized more
territory. The longer the cycle continues, the worse the
crash will be. Just stop. Stop now. Come from a new
paradigm. Feed the soil of the Holy Land with something
other than blood. Cherish all children, ours and theirs.
I have just finished reading David C.
Korten's latest book, The Great Turning: from Empire to
Earth Community. If there is one book that needs to be
read by every awakening adult, college student, and high
school senior, this is it. It reviews the glories and
horrors of U.S. History. It reviews the horrors of the wrong
turn for Empire that was made 5000 years ago. It show us the
presence of hundreds of millions of people who are already
turning away form the sorrows of Empire toward a vastly new
sort of society that can take its place. It reveals how the
current neocon polices of the Bush Administration are not
new in U.S. history, but rather a carrying of these themes
to their furthest and most destructive extremities. For
those with eyes to see, this administration is discrediting
these obsolete patterns. The plutocratic Radical Right and
the religious Radical Right have combined together in a
futile attempt to preserve the social mode of Empire. It is
they, not we cultural and religious creatives, who are on
the defensive. A confident persistent offensive on our part
can overcome this backlash and bring about a viable future
for humankind. This is the hopeful message of this
book. Decades ago Kenneth Boulding spoke of
the end of civilization and the beginning of
post-civilization. He spoke of this turning as the most
radical social shift since the shift from the tribal to the
civilization mode of social organization. Korten has updated
this vision. He has filled in details from the work of
hundreds of people who have pioneered aspects of this
turning for decades, indeed centuries. Those of us who have done our homework
in these arenas will find much of this book familiar, but
Korten has pulled it all together in an inclusive overview,
filled it in with detailed examples, and communicated it all
to this generation with an illuminating prose. Every tenth
page has a quote that you might post on your refrigerator
do. I have some disagreements with Korten
in the religion arena, but they do not undermine my overall
appreciation for the thrust of this book. It is gratifying
to me that he sees the arena of religion as a primary
cultural arena along with family, education, and media.
Korten's theology, like that of so many who are rejecting
the supernaturalism of the past, tends to water down
religion to statements of human-made rational meaning. I
feel called to assist my era to see that good religion is a
relationship with That Final Mystery that never makes sense,
but only makes Awe. Nevertheless, as I attempt to live in
these times from the awareness of Awe and Wonder, I find
myself joining Korten in his basic vision of what we must
accomplish in the realm of social reorganization. I count
him one of the "prophets" of our times. Go ahead; add this book to your
library, and get it read this year. We need it for both 2006
and 2008. For Earth, Gene Marshall http://www.realisticliving.org/
Marshall The
Power of Israel in the United States
by James Petras
http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/human/israel.html
Recommended reading: The
Great Turning: from Empire to Earth
Community
see also: 'Never
Again' Does Not Mean 'An Eye for an
Eye' by
Lucinda
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