Opposing Israel's defense establishment, Katz threatens all-out war on Palestinian Authority

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has issued a blunt warning to the Palestinian Authority: If its security forces decide to "turn their guns" on Israelis and IDF troops, Israel will respond by going to war with the PA.

There is, however, an awkward detail standing between that warning and a full-scale West Bank war: Israeli military and Shin Bet officials say they have no concrete intelligence indicating that such an attack is actually being planned.

Katz's warning came Tuesday during a security briefing on IDF preparations in Judea and Samaria. He described a scenario in which PA security forces and Fatah-affiliated Tanzim elements could suddenly decide that their uniforms and weapons are better suited for attacking Israelis than maintaining order.

Given the history of the region, it is not exactly an imaginative exercise.

"The reference scenario defined for the IDF regarding Judea and Samaria determines that preparations must be made for the possibility of an attack by jihadist elements against the settlers and IDF soldiers, as a lesson from the events of October 7 in Gaza," Katz said.

And there is the October 7 lesson.

Israel was told for years that Hamas was deterred. The threat was manageable. The border could be secured. The worst-case scenarios could remain worst-case scenarios.

Then thousands of terrorists crossed into Israel and carried out the deadliest massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.

So when Israeli officials now say they are preparing for an extreme scenario, it is difficult to blame them for refusing to place their faith in comforting assumptions.

Katz reportedly based his warning on an IDF presentation to the cabinet Monday concerning the military's preparations for extreme scenarios. When IDF sources pushed back by noting that there was no concrete intelligence indicating a PA rebellion was being planned, Katz essentially made the obvious point: October 7 was also an extreme scenario, right up until it happened.

That does not mean a PA uprising is imminent. It does mean Israel has considerably less reason than it once did to dismiss unpleasant possibilities merely because they are unpleasant.

Still, the IDF and Shin Bet apparently aren't seeing the specific threat Katz described.

Additional IDF sources told The Jerusalem Post that the military has no concrete intelligence pointing to a planned rebellion by PA security forces or Fatah-affiliated Tanzim elements. Shin Bet sources similarly said they were unaware of any concrete threat from the Palestinian Authority.

In other words, Israel's defense minister is warning about a potential Palestinian Authority insurrection while the security establishment is essentially saying, "We don't see it."

That disagreement matters.

Katz did not coordinate his remarks with the IDF, and military sources did not indicate that they supported his decision to publicly outline the scenario.

But Katz went considerably further than merely saying the military should prepare. He said that if PA forces attack Israelis or IDF troops, Israel will declare war on the Palestinian Authority.

"In such a case, war will be declared against the Palestinian Authority, and the IDF will launch a comprehensive offensive in accordance with an organized plan that was formulated and approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by me, according to the principles outlined for the IDF," Katz said.

That is not a diplomatic warning written by committee. That is a declaration that Israel has already contemplated exactly what it would do if the PA security apparatus decides to become another enemy army. And the proposed response would be anything but symbolic.

Katz said an Israeli campaign would be "short and powerful."

"The campaign will be short and powerful and will include the use of ground and air forces and the use of special means, the targeting and expulsion of senior officials, the destruction of weapons and military equipment, and the extensive evacuation of residents and destruction of terrorist infrastructure inside the cities and in all refugee camps in Judea and Samaria, in accordance with the Gaza and Lebanon model, alongside reinforcing forces and defending the Israeli communities," he said.

That would mean bringing the Gaza and Lebanon playbook into the West Bank.

Ground forces. Airstrikes. Targeted senior officials. Weapons destroyed. Terrorist infrastructure demolished. Large-scale evacuations.

The sort of military campaign that tends to make the international community suddenly discover an urgent interest in Israel's restraint.

Katz also said the IDF was conducting "powerful activity against terrorist centers on the ground, including the evacuation of refugee camps in northern Samaria," while claiming that terrorism had fallen to its lowest level in decades. Yet he warned that the situation could deteriorate dramatically if PA forces themselves became combatants.

That possibility is precisely why the IDF has changed its thinking since October 7.

Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir has said the military will increasingly prepare according to enemy capabilities rather than relying primarily on assessments of enemy intentions. That may be one of the most important lessons Israel learned from October 7.

Intentions are difficult to read. Capabilities are not.

A government can convince itself that an enemy has no intention of attacking. It can issue reassuring intelligence assessments, hold meetings and point to the absence of obvious warning signs.

Then the enemy attacks anyway, like history has show us.

Israel has therefore conducted surprise readiness exercises designed to test whether the military can respond to a large-scale assault without the luxury of advance warning.

The stakes in Judea and Samaria are particularly high now. Tensions have increased around the third anniversary of October 7, the upcoming elections at the end of the month, continuing clashes surrounding settler violence and the broader regional confrontation involving Iran.

An IDF source told the Jerusalem Post that the military would not publicly describe an all-out war with the West Bank in the same terms Katz did because such a conflict remains an extreme scenario.

Fair enough, but Israel has already learned the price of treating extreme scenarios as somebody else's problem.

The real question is not whether a PA rebellion is currently underway. It isn't. The question is what happens if the Palestinian Authority's security forces, which possess weapons, training and organizational structures, ever decide that Israel is the enemy rather than the security partner they are supposed to be.

Katz has made his answer clear.

Israel will not wait for another October 7 to discover that the "unlikely" scenario was sitting in plain sight.

Do you blame him?

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President Trump makes way for the execution of Ft. Hood shooter via Army firing squad

Nearly seventeen years after the massacre at Fort Hood, the institutional hesitancy that long shielded a self-proclaimed jihadist from final reckoning has broken. 

On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that the administration has authorized the sentence handed down by a court-martial over a decade ago. "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended and President Donald J. Trump has approved death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Parnell stated. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' during the attack." That's the jihadist's claim that Allah is greater [than our God].

The atrocity itself remains one of the most chilling acts of ideological violence on American soil. 

On November 5, 2009, Hasan, then a U.S. Army officer, attended noon prayers at a local mosque before driving to a soldier readiness processing facility. Knowing the building would be filled with unarmed servicemen and women preparing for deployment, he opened fire into what he calculated to be "the greatest density of soldiers." His intention was neither ambiguous nor impulsive. 

As the scumbag later remarked to a sanity board evaluation, "I shot to kill." He was proud doing Allah's work since Allah ain't got no guns.

When law enforcement officers finally incapacitated him after an exchange of gunfire, Hasan was hospitalized and subsequently evaluated, evidently by psychiatrists unfamiliar with the Koran. 

The psychiatric assessment revealed no evidence of depression, psychosis, or cognitive impairment; his actions were guided entirely by deliberate conviction. 

During his trial, the prosecution laid bare the stark human cost of that zealotry. Lead prosecutor Col. Michael Mulligan concluded the government's case following profound testimony from victims' families, including Joleen Cahill, whose husband, retired Chief Warrant Officer Michael Cahill, lost his life attempting to disarm the gunman. She recounted the agonizing aftermath endured by her family in the years following the attack.

Despite his conviction and capital sentence, the military justice system imposed an exhaustive sequence of automatic reviews. The case proceeded through the U.S. Army Criminal Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. When Hasan's legal team ultimately petitioned the Supreme Court citing procedural objections, the nation's highest court declined to hear the appeal, exhausting his legal remedies.

If hopefully carried out, Hasan's execution will mark the first time since 1961 that a U.S. president has successfully authorized a military death penalty, the most severe penalty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The last military execution occurred on April 13, 1961, when Pvt. John Bennett was hanged for the attempted murder of an eleven-year-old girl in Austria. 

A subsequent effort by President George W. Bush to approve a military execution was halted by federal courts in 2008.

With the legal appeals concluded, the authority to determine the exact time and location of the firing squad now rests with the Army secretary. As Parnell noted in his announcement, "Judgment day for Hasan has finally come."

May all his virgins be syphilitic goats.

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Jihadi Mamdani’s Definition of “Socialism” Is Actually State-Controlled Totalitarianism

NEW YORK — In a display of economic brilliance previously seen only in breadline queues and collapsing regimes, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down on Theo Von’s podcast this week to explain that socialism simply means the government generously handing you every single thing required to exist. Let's call it Big Brother, just for argument's sake.

According to the card-carrying Democratic Socialist and devout anti-Semite, the government shouldn’t just handle minor, trivial tasks like keeping violent criminals off the streets or picking up the trash. No, it needs to step in as a full-time parental unit to ensure no citizen is ever forced to experience the raw, unfettered horror of paying for their own life.

“Socialism, to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that,” comrade Mamdani told Von.

Taking a play out of the Putin handbook, Mamdani went on to explain that voting every few years is far too much freedom for people to hold without state guidance in between elections.

“It’s a belief that you shouldn’t live in a place where all you can do is pick your own leaders,” added the DSA member, outlining a revolutionary framework where bureaucratic oversight replaces basic personal responsibility. “You should also be able to have that power in the rest of your life, right? People talk about it as the extension of democracy from the ballot box to the rest of your life.”

Lest anyone worry that "dignity" means something vague—like the ability to earn a living without the state taking half your paycheck—the Mayor graciously clarified the precise items City Hall plans to nationalize.

“When people say dignity, I want to be very clear, we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath: housing, childcare, public transit,” he said. “No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables; you need these to live.” And after all, who wants to be priced out of being able to purchase a Lamborghini, right?

Critics were quick to note that letting a city government manage every aspect of daily life sounds remarkably like a system history already tried, tested, and buried along with the Berlin Wall. “But communism has never been done right,” the useful idiots will say, except that it has been done right and that's why it has always failed.

City Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island) pointed out that Mamdani’s vision of government-supplied happiness sounds a bit too familiar.

“I can’t imagine even his most ardent supporters would want to live in a state where the government determines everything you need to live a dignified life, whatever that is,” said Carr.

Other local leaders wondered how a municipality that routinely fails to patch potholes or manage basic public services expects to efficiently manage the entire human existence.

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“The Mayor says it’s government’s job to deliver ‘whatever you need.’ I have a different view of government’s job: keep us safe, educate our kids, pick up the garbage, maintain the roads and make New York affordable enough that people can build the lives they want for themselves,” said Councilman Frank Morono, a Staten Island Republican. “Given how hard City Hall sometimes finds it to deliver the basics, I’m not quite ready to put it in charge of delivering ‘whatever you need.’”

Meanwhile, national lawmakers noted that turning the economy over to local politicians usually works out about as well as asking the DMV to run a five-star restaurant.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) chimed in on social media to remind everyone of the dictionary definition of the Mayor's ideology.

“Socialism is an economic and political system where the … government owns and controls the major means of production,” Paul noted. “So, the same entity running the Post Office in the US, would be responsible for everything. Anyone who supports this does not have sound judgement.”

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At the time of this posting, Mamdani was reportedly finalizing a new city directive that would require the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on sight, right after City Hall finishes figuring out how to budget for free housing, free childcare, and state-subsidized breathing.

Mamdani, who reminds one of post-digestive waste circling the bowl, much like his political career should be doing, thinks he's running the country when he never has, nor ever will, be capable of running so much as a lemonade stand.

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UAE To Seek Death Penalty For Flydubai Terrorist: REPORT

The terrorist co-pilot who tried to nose-dive a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv jetliner into the ground is now looking at the possibility of a date with the executioner, according to a report from the Israeli outlet Ynet that cites a top Emirati official.

Abu Dhabi authorities appear ready to throw the book at 29-year-old jihadi Hamam al-Hammami and demand the maximum sentence under the law after the mid-air nightmare aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073.

Mossad operatives and Israeli aviation experts have already shown up in Abu Dhabi to interrogate al-Hammami. They are joining intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United States in a multi-nation probe, which is what you do when someone decides the cockpit is a good place to start a war.

Investigators suspect Hammami was not simply trying to dump the Boeing 737 MAX 8 into the sea. He was plotting a horrifying, 9/11-style kamikaze run aimed straight at Tel Aviv’s iconic Azrieli Towers in the style of 911.

The horror started when al-Hammami attacked Indian-born Captain Smit Machchhar with the cockpit’s own emergency crash axe. The scumcrumpet yanked the controls into a death spiral and dropped the jet 14,000 feet in thirty seconds. Bleeding and battered, Captain Machchhar fought back and got the reinforced cockpit door open just in time for Israeli passengers to storm in. 

An Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hion, grabbed the controls and pulled the plane out of its plunge before an off-duty pilot was rushed forward to guide it to a miraculous emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Not Yaniv Hion

“When I got inside, I saw the attacker on the controls, between the two seats,” Hion recalled. “There were no pilots in the seats. One was down, and the attacker was on the controls. Another person came in with me. I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold, and first of all pulled him out. … He was trying to destroy the controls in order to disable the plane. That’s what I saw.”

New details about al-Hammami’s past are now spilling out like a garbage can from Wendy's.

According to regional sources, Oman Air barred him from flying over concerns that he had adopted extremist [aka Islamic terrorist] views; Fox News reported this was linked to visits to radical Islamic websites. He was reportedly moved to an administrative job at the airline where he couldn't plunge a commercial airline into the earth.. In 2025, he completed three months of pre-employment training with Royal Air Maroc but was not hired.

Hammami reportedly traveled to Syria. He later joined Flydubai, where he had worked for less than a year. His hiring checks reportedly focused on criminal records rather than signs of radicalization. Hopefully this will change and proper vetting will take place in the future.

According to an Israeli official, this was his first flight into Israel, which raises the obvious question of how an Omani pilot was assigned to the route at all, since Israel’s agreement with Flydubai bars pilots from countries without diplomatic ties.

Conspiracy? Oversight? Clusterfrack?

An Emirati source admitted the global pilot shortage left airlines rushing hiring checks and called the oversight a “very serious failure.” That is one way to put it--I'd go for the last choice above.

Israel is now tightening crew screenings on all incoming foreign flights. Better late than never, assuming “never” was not the original plan.

Now that's closing the barn door now that the horses have escaped.

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Trump Shares GOP Senator’s Phone Number In Fight For Permanent Daylight Saving Tim

HOUSTON, TX — Showing that his vision for the cosmos is as grand as his approach to Senate vote-counting, President Donald Trump reportedly called astronauts on the International Space Station on August 28, 2026, directly from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to ask if they could see Tom Cotton’s phone blowing up from space.

While at Mission Control, Trump paused briefly from managing terrestrial calendar reform to honor the Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and sign an executive order creating a US Space Academy. The academy will reportedly train future space cadets in essential galactic duties, such as navigating orbital mechanics and cold-calling recalcitrant lawmakers from deep space.

Having successfully conquered space policy for the morning, Trump immediately returned to his primary legislative strategy: doxxing sitting U.S. Senators to fix the clock once and for all.

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who remembers the great Lindsey Graham Flip Phone Destruction Era of 2016, Trump published Senator Tom Cotton’s personal cellphone number on Truth Social. The strategic leak was designed to apply maximum public pressure on the Arkansas Republican, who is currently standing between the American people and endless, glorious afternoon golf sessions.

The Sunshine Protection Act, which passed the House 308-117 in July, remains stalled in the Senate. Trump made it clear that the primary obstacle to national clock harmony is a single Senator refusing to yield to the overwhelming power of extra evening sunlight.

“For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill,” Trump wrote in a totally standard presidential directive. “So, everyone in Arkansas … tell Tom to, GET IT DONE!”

Trump went on to explain that permanent daylight saving time is vital for golfers, tennis players, hunters, farmers, and anyone else who realizes that waking up to pitch-black darkness is a small price to pay for hit balls at 8:30 p.m.

“So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all,” Trump said. “Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year, and having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!”

Cotton, however, remains stubbornly attached to the idea that human beings should see the sun before noon in January.

“These highly concentrated benefits for a few industries in a few regions are offset by widely distributed costs across many more industries throughout the entire country,” Cotton said in a speech, callously ignoring the desperate plight of evening golfers. “And that’s to say nothing of moms sending their kids to school in the dark of night.”

Medical experts immediately weighed in to complicate the issue further, warning that standard time aligns better with human biology, while other studies pointed out that moving the clocks forward increases heart attacks and fatal car crashes. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and a bipartisan group of senators also expressed opposition, proving that if there is one thing Congress can unite behind, it is keeping the country’s sleep schedule completely unstable twice a year.

At publishing time, Senator Cotton’s phone was reportedly vibrating so violently that NASA instruments in Houston registered it as a mild seismic event.

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Hamas Leader Reportedly Discovers That Running Gaza Comes With a Very Short Warranty

Israeli attack helicopters and tanks reportedly targeted Hamas's Gaza leader, Ali al-Amoudi, Saturday morning, giving the terrorist organization's latest chief an unexpected reminder that Hamasshole leadership remains a position with unusually high employee turnover.

The military operation began around 08:00  after Israeli forces engaged suspicious targets approaching the designated "Yellow Line." Reports later indicated that al-Amoudi himself was the main target, with the Hamasshole leader believed to be inside the apartment complex hit by Israeli forces.

Security sources cited by Kan News said the likelihood of al-Amoudi surviving was "very small," which is generally not the sort of performance review anyone hopes to receive from the Israeli military.

Al-Amoudi had previously spent nearly 20 years in an Israeli prison before being released in the 2011 Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange. During that time, he reportedly developed a close relationship with Yahya Sinwar, eventually becoming head of Sinwar's office and joining Hamas's political bureau.

Apparently demonstrating an impressive ability to turn prison experience into career advancement, al-Amoudi eventually became responsible for Hamas's propaganda operation. During the war, he directed Palestinian propaganda campaigns that found considerable support in Western countries, proving once again that Hamas could apparently find an audience for its messaging even while running a terrorist organization from Gaza.

After Sinwar was killed in October 2024, Hamas began the familiar process of finding someone else willing to take over a terrorist organization whose senior leadership was being systematically eliminated.

Al-Amoudi gradually emerged as the group's authority in Gaza while keeping a relatively low public profile. He officially assumed the leadership position in July.

His tenure may now be considerably shorter than expected, assuming reports of Saturday's strike are accurate.

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Trump predicts Iran war will soon end and oil prices will plunge

MOBILE, Ala. — President Donald Trump assured a stadium full of voters Friday that the conflict with Iran will wrap up right on schedule, likely immediately after voters perform their civic duty at the polls.

Speaking to a crowd in Mobile, Alabama, Trump explained that the Iranian regime is currently struggling with mild economic hiccups, specifically an inflation rate that makes buying a loaf of bread require a wheelbarrow and a second mortgage.

"Their economy is down the tubes. They have one thing they really do have. It's called inflation. They have about 310% inflation. And we'll see what happens," Trump said, describing a level of financial ruin that even American gas station owners can only dream of achieving.

According to military strategists, the entire war plan hinges entirely on the upcoming midterm calendar. Once citizens cast their ballots, gas prices will allegedly dive straight off a cliff, returning to levels not seen since voters were actually happy with the economy.

"But as soon as we it's going to end very soon, probably right after the election. But as soon as it does end, oil prices will come tumbling down," Trump added, comforting Americans who have begun considering commuting to work via horse and buggy.

The former president remained laser-focused on the precise timing of world peace, reiterating that geopolitical stability is simply waiting on a few precinct voting tally reports.

"That war is going to be over soon. One way or the other, one way or the other. It's going to end very soon and probably right after the midterms," Trump promised, using his magic formula of repeating the same significant phrases at least three times to make his point. 

At press time, oil executives across the country were reportedly praying for election delays so they could extract a few more weeks of record profits out of helpless commuters.

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Flydubai Co-Pilot Allegedly ID'd. Apparently Landing Safely Wasn't Part Of His Game Plan

Alleged Hijacker: Hamam Alhamami 

The Omar hijacker's name has been revealed which is Hamam Alhamami. This is largely supported by current reporting. with the suspect’s name coming from officials and multiple sources familiar with the investigation rather than from a formal public identification by Flydubai or the governments involved.

Here's the story: On 30 September 2026, Flydubai flight FZ1073 was making its routine trip from Dubai to Tel Aviv, where a lot of Jewish people live, when the routine portion of the trip apparently decided to take the day off.

The aircraft diverted and landed at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the co-pilot allegedly attacked the pilot flying. Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the co-pilot stabbed the captain, Indian national Smit Machchhar, [a name which in Hindi translates to 'mosquito'] and then attempted to crash the aircraft with more than 170 people aboard, most of them Israelis, therefore Islam's most hated people followed by Christians, Hindus, atheists, gays, Druids, Jains, and anyone other than Muslims of the correct sect. That is, Sunnis don't get along with Shi'ites and vice-versa but they do get along when attacking non-believers.

Fortunately, passengers and off-duty pilots intervened and subdued the co-pilot before the flight could become an especially horrifying addition to the aviation industry’s list of things passengers would prefer not to experience.

The aircraft also transmitted the hijack transponder code 7500 and lost thousands of feet of altitude in mere minutes.

Netanyahu said the attacker had undergone Islamist radicalization [possibly due to his reading the Koran]. Investigations remain underway in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 

By the way, both countries did not want to release the co-pilot's name.

The co-pilot has been described by Israeli officials and outlets including CNN as an Omani national who had worked for Flydubai for only about eight or nine months.

Then came the name.

ABC News, citing multiple sources familiar with the investigation, identified the suspect on 2 October as 29-year-old Hamam Al Hammami, also spelled Hamam Alhamami or Hamam al-Hammami.

According to those sources, Al Hammami had previously been removed from flying duties at Oman Air in 2024 after being found with extremist materials. He later joined Flydubai who is apparently okay with extremist material, was transferred from Saudi Arabia to the UAE, and allegedly told investigators that he intended to crash the plane in Israel.

The Wall Street Journal, Al Arabiya, and other outlets have reported the same identification.

The name has not, however, been uniformly confirmed publicly by Flydubai or the UAE government, so anyone preparing the definitive social-media infographic should probably resist the urge to add a giant red stamp reading "CASE CLOSED" just yet.

The central claims circulating in the graphic are consistent with the reporting: an Omani Flydubai co-pilot, an Israel-bound flight, an alleged attempt to crash the aircraft, and the name Hamam Alhamami.

That does not mean every detail making the rounds online has suddenly graduated from "Internet rumor" to "established fact."

Claims involving Al-Qaeda connections, an inside job, and other embellishments go beyond what major news organizations have established so far, but I wouldn't have a conniption if I found out that this is the case.

In other words, there appears to be plenty of disturbing information here without the internet having to add its own director's cut.

Let's patiently wait and see . . . but hurry.

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