As I post, it is 803 days that one remaining hostage has STILL not been returned home to Israel. (7 min video) from Rachel Herman. She continues to make sure we do not forget! [https://www.instagram.com/rachelherman_magay/#]
Flashback to Sept 23, 2025, 48 hostages remained in captivity for 695 days; about 20 were presumed to be alive nearly two years after the October 7, 2023 attack, when Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups abducted 251 people from Israel.
At this point, more than 140 hostages had been freed or rescued since the start of the conflict.
As I walked thru Central Park to the 500 Days in Hell Rally, I found an enormous crowd assembled at the band shell where you could feel the heartache and frustration. (Flickr Slide Show)
At this point, more than 140 hostages had been freed or rescued since the start of the conflict.Short VIDEO – excerpts of a couple speakers as I walked through the crowd.
.And now, December 17, 2025. What confuses me is people I have known…not strangers … are now so very hostile towards Israel. Not Jews …they say… but to Israel.
I am at a loss to understand how they can feel these opinions to be OKAY when TODAY we now add the murders at Bondi Beach and Brown University. to the anti-Semitism that has grown around the world.
This is NOT okay
[Where indicated pictures and video property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
Slain Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas had ‘no injuries consistent with a bombing’ despite Hamas’ ‘evil’ : “We were met with depths of evil and Kugel added of examining the bodies.”
This was an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel,…. NO VIOLATIONS here except those committed by the anti-Jewish MOB,
“It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events,” one protest leader told the crowd….. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared!” [….]
So, 24 yrs after 9/11 …. the largest Jewish population … outside Israel … voted to elect an anti-Israel/anti-Jewish Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, the next MAYOR of NYC.
Seems they FORGOT what was NEVER to be Forgotten ….
This flashback to April 4, 2025 revisits the “Gaza Unbreakable: Week of Rage”. (March 31 to April 4) … primarily organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and related student activist groups on university campuses demanding Institutional Divestment from Israel and to protest the ”War on Gaza.”
The NYPD , under Mayor Eric Adams, allowed both sides to co-mingle outside the main Public Library on Fifth Avenue and the pro-Gazans were not pleased (saw many grumbling).
Flickr slide show of a healthy counter-protest with much truth and fact to challenge the Gazan lies…
The “Week of Rage” slogans “Gaza is Unbreakable” and “The Student Movement is Unbreakable” aimed to show solidarity with “Palestinians” in the face of the ongoing “humanitarian crisis” at the hands of Israel and the IDF aka IOF (Israel Occupying Force) …. leaving the gullible snookered by claims of a GAZA GENOCIDE and looking to the future with Zohran Mamdani as NYC’s next Mayor.
Six short videos follow in a you tube playlist
And the LIES continue as .Palawadawarns of another LAND SALE coming up. Will No Fair Play under Mayor “Mamdoomie” become the norm?
On December 1, the Palis used barricades that were shoved between the NYPD and Pro-Palestine Protesters outside of John Jay College on West 59th Street, as they protested the event inside featuring Stav Cohen, an Israeli IDF reservist listed as the evening’s speaker.
.Bret Baiercalled it the “Occupied West Bank.” … It isn’t “occupied,” it belongs to Israel, and it isn’t the “West Bank,” it is Judea and Samaria.
.IMPORTANT: Whenever and wherever this crap appears, every decent person should rise up and strike it down: the territory known by the media as the West Bank is actually known by its historic and biblical names,Judea and Samaria. Am Yisrael Chai !
Do not cede ground.
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Childrens’ Rights are Never Wrong.
Discovered this was a short rally; came 30 minutes late.
Sorry to miss what the speakers who were there to promote: To thank and to encourage RFK JR.
“Helene Schuckwas INJURED by the PFIZER Vaccine and it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is restoring her faith in the medical industry. “@seckennedy
“Thank you RFK Jr. for raising awareness that vaccine injuries are real and that we must protect the livelihoods of our children and advocate for all those who have been injured / silenced.” [cafecitobreak.org]
A few shots as they marched to the front of Pfizer NYC headquarters.
[Flickr Slide Show] Hope to catch the next one on time.
The health secretary noted that deaths from contagious disease dropped before the introduction of vaccines.
Measles deaths, for example, numbered about 13,000 a year in 1900, but had declined to a few hundred by 1960, Kennedy said. The first measles vaccine was not released until 1963.
In the case of tuberculosis, he said, there was a sharp decline in deaths before the vaccine was introduced.
Kennedy said that vaccines “are a critical part of public health” that “can prevent infections like measles altogether” but that “blind faith in vaccination alone as our only recourse against death by infection has inclined our medical system to discount the role of therapeutic drugs and vitamins and diet exercise and other lifestyle changes that might fortify human immune systems against all kinds of sickness.”
Sept 5, 2025 The day NEW YORK City accepted ISLAM …. no longer is “Harlem the New Mecca”(Muslim revert, NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, was heard to proclaim “Harlem is the NEW Mecca” ) MANHATTAN is becoming the NEW MECCA. (We Were Warned)
At a presser on Sept 5, Mayor Adams elevated Muhammad’s Birthday to “Holiday” Status in NYC (“… just days before the anniversary of 9/11 , New York City surrendered itself to Islam”) SHAME SHAME on you, Mayor Adams.
“The genocidal core of Zionism has been exposed and revealed to the world. There is no going back. Our path is clearer than ever: Only a constant and consistent march of freedom and liberation for Palestine and its people.”
A look back to March 10, 2025, the day after the Palestinian activist and Columbia Univ grad Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by ICE . The speeches, the agitprop. devoured by the gullible kafirs who believe Khalil to be a victim….
Playlist – 5 short videos- include:
1. Manolo De Los Santos, founder , Exec Dir The People’s Forum
Taher DahLeh from The Peoples Forum introduces Tal from Jewish Voice For Peace
3 . Alexa Avilés, NYC Council Member, District 38. Chair of NYC Council’s Committee on Immigration. [Spewing SHAMEFUL propaganda]
“They are coming for all of us, and it is us who will protect each other,” CM Alexa Avilés said. “They will not come for our trans siblings. We got your back. They will not come for our Palestinian siblings. We got your back, You will not come for undocumented siblings: We got your back. ..Lets keep fighting y’all” (y’all seems to be how they “talk to the people”)
The 4th speaker wraps up the indoctrination for the crowd.
THE 5th video is the 4 min march as it passes (trying to catch as many signs)
Flickr slide show ….
Why was Mahmoud Khalil Arrested ?
The Agency:Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The Reason:His activism for Palestinian rights and involvement in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
“Mahmoud Khalil was only here for two years. We gave him free housing, free food, and an Ivy League education. As soon as his feet touched our soil, he began to foment hatred and incite violence. He’s leaving with nearly half a million dollars. But fuck America, right?”
After all that noise, HE WAS RELEASED on June 20th:
NPR: After 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center (arrested March 8, 2025) Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil has been released on bail.
Mahmoud Khalil was released from federal custody on Friday, June 20, 2025, more than three months after immigration agents arrested and detained him as the first student targeted for deportation by President Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters.
Khalil’s legal team said they planned to quickly get him on a plane back to New York, where he’ll reunite with his wife and his two month old son, who was born while he was in detention. NPR
Khalil plans to continue advocating for Palestinian rights and protesting the war in Gaza, according to NPR.
He has also expressed interest in continuing to engage with lawmakers to promote his cause, reports Al Jazeera. ….
“Let’s be clear, Mahmoud was detained for his political speech,” said Professor Nadia Abu El-Hajj, co-director of Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies.
Another Columbia professor, Marianne Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors who grew up in communist Romania, said the arrest “brought back my most tormenting childhood memories.”
Khalil is thought to be the first person targeted by the Trump administration as part of its pledge to deport international students involved in protests against the war in Gaza.(JVP- Religion News)
Now that we have a MUSLIM running for MAYOR of NYC, can we expect radical change? What will the future hold under Sharia Law? Be careful what you vote for cause things will CHANGE with a Socialist/Commie MUSLIM Mayor in charge. (whether you like it or not)
You were warned
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NYC District 2After attending a NYC Community Education Council meeting on July 9th , it seemed apparent that major city school districts have been dead-locked by the dem/soc/commie leftist machine, after all government knows best; as was further borne up by Superintendent Kelly McGuire: untried theories never die, they just get recycled. Like “New Math” they are empowered by what is unique. Untried is better. Complaints be damned.
.First the transcript/report from my associate, Jo, that details her experience speaking to the District 2 Council five months before this meeting.
“MY FIGHT AGAINST THE TRANS-MAFIA ON FEBRUARY 26, 2025”
“The anti-trans resolution would force two-spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary students to play on a team that doesn’t align with their gender identity, and adds the inaccurate and non-legal term “biological sex” in place of gender identity.” [GLAAD June 18, 2024]
“Scientists have repeatedly said there is no single biological factor that determines sex, and sex assigned at birth is not the sole determinant of gender,”writes Dr. Fausto-Sterling, a professor of biology and gender studies.
RESOLUTION 280 re transgender participation in female sports
On Feb 26, 2025 …. tensions escalated in the Clinton Middle School gymnasium regarding resolution 248.
Resolution #248 CEC Dis. 2 sponsors like Maud Maron, Charles Love, and Allyson Bowen,could be seen getting up and leaving their seats in the middle of public comment. Often times, Maron, Love and Bowen were told that they were “disrespecting” their constituents by gluing themselves to their phones and computers, sometimes videotaping speakers – at times minors.
CEC District 2 membersGavin Healy, Sonal Patel, Jessica Savage, and Sara Schacter-Erenburg introduced Resolution #245to the agenda for a vote. The new “Resolution to Rescind Resolution #248,” states that the trans sports ban policy should be rescinded on 11 grounds. Some of these grounds include going against state law, incorrectly categorizing gender as “biological sex,” and that leading athletes and coaches in women’s sports support the inclusion of trans athletes.
RESOLUTION 281 re Illegal Immigration and ICE was also on the agenda, though not as prominently.
END RECAP from previous meeting:
Now, the CEC meeting of July 9th. The short videos that follow verify how deeply committed politics-of -the-left is to controlling any opposition …. ANY change they do not approve or support is SHUT DOWN.
“WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE” was the take away from the council members in support of trans athletes
July 9, 2025 : To Rescind or not to Rescind, that was the question
CEC Council playlist: 4 short videos
4 speakers in support of TRANS athletes
Three speakers – politics, redistricting, a city councilman’s statement AND Immigration
IN CONCLUSION : 1st woman wishes for them “a QUORUM” [No quorum continued with repetitive deadlocks. No surprise the public attendance dropped off] AND the final speaker… an oddly manic, high spirited speaker.
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As was NOTED, the politics of the Left rolls on:
It’s easy to see why the United Federation of Teachers just threw its support to Zohran Mamdani: He’s already said he wants to end mayoral control of the public schools — which translates to putting the city’s teachers’ union in charge. [NY Post]
As dictated by our human rights laws, transgender individuals, including transgender girls, have the same rights and opportunities as every other New Yorker. Denying them the ability to participate in sports aligned with their gender identity is flatly illegal under the NYC Human Rights Law and the NYS Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA). [NY Senate]
Some further definitions from AI drives home the political machinations behind these committees.
Identifying someone as male, despite their emotional choice is what brings leftist feelings boiling to the surface. Genetic males do not belong in female supports is a hot topic
In summary, identifying someone as male involves understanding both biological sex and gender identity. It’s important to respect an individual’s self-identified gender and use the correct pronouns.
Technically, it’s a man, not male. Like trans men are real men.
Generally words male and female are silly, there’s no need to talk biology in everyday life. Why don’t ppl just manage to say man and woman instead.
In January 2025, a New York Times/Ipsos poll showed that 79% of respondents supported a ban on transgender athletes from women’s sports.[257][258]
Yet, the hard core LEFT refuses to protect FEMALE children.
Their feelings do not count.
[Pictures and video where indicated property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
“Do not make covenants with evil people.” Exodus 23:32-33.
Empty Chairs/ Broken Hearts-Oct 2023
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A better way to free the Israeli hostages by Madeline Brooks
January 20, 2025
There can be a moral perspective on how one deals with terrorists. Rabbi Manis Friedman says that negotiating with terrorists rewards and encourages them. According to him, it is wrong—indeed, it is definitely immoral—to reward terrorists with commuted prison sentences. Boldness, not bribes, is how one must deal with them, as the Bible instructed millennia ago.
He brings up the daring hostage rescue in 1976 in Entebbe, Uganda. Israeli commandos violated all sorts of international laws and killed the captors of the hostages—but the world celebrated the soldiers anyway because they did not negotiate with terrorists. They did the right thing, states the Rabbi. I would add that the world was also amazed by the boldness and skill of the rescue team. As for more raids in Gaza to free the captives in today’s war, since there were some successful raids, there are reports of suicide bombers surrounding the hostages, cutting short a direct approach.
Suppose your child was kidnapped, Rabbi Friedman ventures. Would you offer the criminals a reward or show them fake compassion to get your child back? No! You would have a right to be outraged. Period. The rabbi has moral clarity. He can call evil evil—and can tolerate knowing that evil exists—unlike many people who try to wish it away or explain it as a misperception or a mere reaction to a bad environment.
Ari Abramowitz, in the YouTube video The Israeli Guys, references the Bible on the current Israeli hostage problem. “Do not make covenants with evil people.” No deals, no negotiations. Exodus 23:32-33.
In the Biblical Messianic age, the hope is that all will live in peace and fellowship. But we are not there now, and it is a grave mistake for tender-hearted Jews, beleaguered as they are, to imagine otherwise. Acknowledging the bloodthirsty ways of Hamas, Abramowitz comes up with a novel way to get the hostages back home. Israel has hundreds of prisoners: murderers, rapists, beheaders, etc. All it has to do is make very public announcements in Gaza that every hour, a prisoner will be executed in a public and humiliating way until all the hostages are released. This makes sense to me because it plays to the fact that Israel has the upper hand by dint of its military might, even though, sadly, it is not using it.
And what can Israel do about changing the culture of violent Hamas? Forget curriculum changes in children’s textbooks. The problem is deep-rooted, even spiritual. It goes all the way back to warlike Ismael, Abraham’s illegitimate son.
Abromowitz states that Muslims must be proven wrong through military defeat. As Muslims expand their territory, their conviction grows that their god is strong and favors them. So they have to experience that their god is weaker than the Israeli God to accept defeat. That can happen if Jews totally crush Hamas and take Gaza back again. Here, too, Israel does have the upper hand, but it holds back out of a twisted sense of pity for the enemy.
I would add that the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua command the Israelites as they emerge from the desert to take the land of Canaan, which includes Gaza. The Lord ordered every single inhabitant killed to prevent His people from participating in the Canaanites’ “loathsome” customs. (If this sounds mean, you can argue with God, not me.)
Practically speaking, negotiating with terrorists who vow to return to jihad just as soon as they can makes Israel look dangerously weak, as if it devalues itself, inviting new attacks. The United States demanding negotiations looks weak, too. And for every Jew living in the diaspora, our lives are now even more devalued, more threatened. This can and should change.
No deals, no negotiations**
Madeline Brooks, M.A., is the former head of the New York chapter of ActforAmerica and is a conservative and counter-jihad writer. Her articles have been published in AmericanThinker.com, CanadaFreePress.com, FamilySecurityMatters.org, and elsewhere. Her book, What You Need To Know About Islamic Jihad: Information The Main Stream Media Is Not Giving You, is available on Scribd. She can be reached at ResistJihad@aol.com.
November 9, 2024. Columbus Circle.“Around 5,000 people gathered for a protest in New York organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and other progressive groups voicing their concerns over the results of the recent elections and issuing a stark warning against the prospect of a second Trump presidency.”
. As Noon approached, I found a group from JFREJ walking north on Central Park West to join the crowd of Socialists and Illegals as they fight the WHOLE system. They won’t back down!
Part 1 – Video –Marching Against the Far Right and Trump,
Of course, the Spanish -speaking illegals were camera-ready with their signs and banners. THEY ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE, HERE TO STAY and THEY ARE HOME .
Part 2. Video –The illegals chanted in Spanish. (no subtitles, my AI’s translation was a mess) The song near the end was very pleasant, and AI seemed to understand the lyrics. AND THEN, the March Began.
Republicans and President Trump are more repellent than the horrors of totalitarianism.
Flickr Part 2 Sign after sign supports the illegals. PROTECT them from President Trump!
.A message from Jews For Racial & Economic Justice,
Rabbi Abby Stein, “You don’t have to agree with everything everyone says to show up and be part of a popular front against Trump and the broader fascist movement. We need all of us.”@AbbyChavaStein
The progressives at JFREJ have a friendly outreach video.
”Meet the home of the New York Jewish Left! For over 30 years, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice have been organizing arm-in-arm with our neighbors for a more caring & just world where we’re all free to thrive.”
.Flickr Part 1 .Slide show They marched down 6th Avenue til the NYPD stopped them at 44th street. Comptroller Brad Lander held court with a couple of interviews while the crowd mingled before dispersing.
TRUMP WON signs were all along the march route with in-your-face chants, flags and banners greeting the anarchists. TRUMP WON. Get Over It!
Part 3. Video – The Lefties planned to end the march at 42nd st and Bryant Park. But, the NYPD had a surprise announcement at 44th st and 6th Ave. “THIS IS THE END OF YOUR MARCH.”
. UPDATE: December 9th, the same anarchists were marching, insisting they are victims of a global genocide
”As the United Nations carries out an event to #PreventGenocide while enabling one in Gaza and allowing war criminals like Netanyahu to speak, just a couple of months ago, attendees of the event call out their complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.” (With In Our Lifetime)
“Zionism is the occupier. Israel is guilty of genocide. End The Occupation.”
.”Today, the Intifada continues in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza …in the face of 76 years of Nakba. …. Palestinians continue to resist and resist and resist …. Palestinians are living in exile. Until liberation and return Within Our Lifetime.”
The LIES continue, fooling even the media. (open flyer in a new window to enlarge)
Keep the ignorant college students inflamed, marching against Israel ,Genocide and of course, US Capitalism. Demand: “Ceasefire now. Release all hostages. Let in humanitarian aid. End the occupation and apartheid.”[https://www.jfrej.org/]
“It’s not genocide, it’s just Hamas’ decision to allow the destruction of Palestine. Wake up you idiots, you should be taking down your own leaders. Take Down HAMAS.”
They have NO IDEA they’ve been played.
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Beginning with a flashback to October 2023: a reminder of the Jewish students barricaded in the CU library while rampaging anti-Semites pounded on the windows.The outrage as expressed below should have brought a commitment for change from Cooper Union.
So, in the ensuing year, “What did Cooper Union do to curtail the anti-Semitic indoctrination in their school?” From October 2023 to October 2024:Not much it would seem.
Oct 15, 2024
Herut NYC, Betar US & other Jewish organizations countered,outside Cooper Union, SJP’s pro-terror/pro-rape T-SHIRT sale-membership drive,with
JEWS FIGHT BACK! Stand Against Terror
Rape and Hate! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
However, the SJP didn’t get to sell those T-shirts as easily as planned. They were unprepared for a counter-protest that bombarded them with, “Do you supportTerrorism? Do you support Rape?”
The opposition – in support of Israel – made sure the passersby heard the FACTS about the anti-Jewish terrorist organizations led by Hamasand Hezbollahthat promoted hostility for Israel and the Jews.
Am Yisrael Chai! rang through the air along with ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and JEWS FIGHT BACK.
Flickr Slide Show of both sides
Of course, the CU recruitment message was heavy with anti-Semitic propaganda … and LIES…. to re-cruit the naive, the gullible – THE UNDER-EDUCATED into believing the anti-Semitic hatred is FACT.
Lots OF LOVE for Palestine from the SJP. Just read the T-shirts. Yet, HATRED is preached towards the Jews and Israel. That’s all they know. Why do they support terrorism and rape? This is a conversation they were unable to have, no matter how the question was asked. “Resistance is the GREATEST Act Of LOVE”
Cooper Union has obviously let the anti-Semitism continue to fester. Believing that T-shirts are an act of love- not war.
VIDEO of October 2024 has both sides in action. How does Cooper Union explain the promotion of a terrorist organization? The Hatred?
.There was an added dramatic painting created at the t-shirt table …. after everyone arrived. A Bloody Cooper Union.
BEFORE, it was just a Cooper Union T-Shirt.
WHY, one year later, are we witnessing a recruitment T-shirt sale for anti-Semitism on the grounds of Cooper Union? WHY is this OKAY?
The message : ENOUGH is ENOUGH! should have borne fruit.
Strong words from Jacob Khalili on his experience with anti-Semitism at Cooper Union. Cooper Union: Shame Shame
.Who is in charge here?
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FYI the statement made (in the video) re tuition for SJP students at CU:
“The Cooper Union was one of very few American institutions of higher learning to offer a full-tuition scholarship to every admitted student, a practice it discontinued in 2014, instead offering a half-tuition scholarship to each admitted student.[15] As of 2024, nearly half of its undergraduate students were attending on a tuition-free basis.[16] In September 2024 the school announced that for the next four years, all students (including current students) would not pay tuition for their senior year.[17][18]
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Just a few days before our presidential election, the palis and their socialist contingent were on the streets of NYC- again- with their latest chants and signs making it clear. They HATE America.
So, Why Vote?
Nov 2, 2024 Shutitdown4palestine gathered in Union Square to encourage NO Votes for Genocide – for the U.S. politicians COMPLICIT in genocide on Nov 5th. So… I guess they won’t be voting.
Always obedient , the chanting is well -rehearsed in the echoing of the leader: “Imperialism will Fall. Brick by Brick.Wall by Wall. Every Fascist State will Fall.” and “Refugees will return. In our thousands in our millions. We are all Palestinians….From the Sea to the River. Palestine will live forever.”
New (for me) was an odd group-chant of SHAME that was creepy. A bit like a cow-mooing in between the laundry list of why they should not VOTE.
Flickr slideshow of the pali’s and their socialist comrades before they marched uptown ( they always march)
Because it was still shabbos there wasn’t usual counter protest. Found one confident fellow who stood tall with his Israeli flag.
I left thinking how interesting, the palis are threatening us by not VOTING. …. And this is the solution? “Imperialism will Fall. Brick by Brick.Wall by Wall. Every Fascist State will Fall.”
“Shame on all who send weapons.And shame on all who plan and provide political support At the head of them. Shame on the U.S. ruling class. Since day one has been leading this genocide onslaught on our people, “(SHAME)
This is the mind-numbing repetition from their propaganda machine that is pounded in to the heads of our young.- it’s all they hear. It’s all the read. It’s criminal.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
At this point, more than 140 hostages had been freed or rescued since the start of the conflict. 
I am at a loss to understand how they can feel these opinions to be OKAY when TODAY we now add the murders at Bondi Beach and Brown University. to the anti-Semitism that has grown around the world. 
Pamela Hall, 1 second ago (
.First the transcript/report from my associate, Jo, that details her experience speaking to the District 2 Council five months before this meeting.
. As Noon approached, I found a group from JFREJ walking north on Central Park West to join the crowd of Socialists and Illegals as they fight the WHOLE system. They won’t back down!
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