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<title><![CDATA[Zev Chafets - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15565.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Zev Chafets]]></description><category domain="15565">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Is This the Most Important Man in Israel Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-01/israel-elections-why-an-arab-israeli-is-the-country-s-key-figure-now?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arab politician Mansour Abbas has some simple demands for whoever wants to form the next government. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s in a position to make them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel-Sudan Deal Seals Trump's Mideast Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/israel-sudan-deal-seals-trumps-142556190.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Donald Trump's Middle East diplomacy began life with implausible grandiosity. He announced his intention not only to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but also to resolve the century-long conflict between the Jews and the Arabs.Foreign policy experts...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo on Syria, China and Playing the Long Game]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-syria-china-playing-060024313.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Jerusalem on Friday morning, the city was full of evangelical pilgrims celebrating the Festival of Tabernacles. Like Pompeo, the many thousands of evangelical pilgrims were all Christian Zionists. But he arrived in the Israeli]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Palestinians Won't Like Trump's 'Deal of the Century']]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-30/palestinians-won-t-like-trump-s-deal-of-the-century?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But their leverage is now limited. Their'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' best bet will be to negotiate.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bibi Netanyahu Can Name His Team and His Price]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-10/benjamin-netanyahu-can-name-his-team-and-his-price?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prime minister won enough support to form a government. His opponent, Benny Gantz, may even be part of it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Bibi Netanyahu Will Never Go Quietly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-03/why-benjamin-netanyahu-will-never-go-quietly?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The prime minister mistrusts the judicial system and knows he can rely on popular support to resist attempts to remove him from power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Kushner Can Get the Mideast Deal of the Century]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-25/how-jared-kushner-can-get-the-mideast-deal-of-the-century?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite current tensions in Gaza, first son-in-law Jared Kushner insists that the Deal of the Century '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' is on the way. A number of thorny disagreements would need to be resolved if that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s to happen; first and foremost, the status of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump's Mideast Moves Are a Game Changer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-13/how-trump-s-mideast-moves-are-a-game-changer?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The UN'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Palestinian refugee program perpetuated grievances and blocked peace. The U.S. is right to defund it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Got the Biggest Win From Helsinki]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/syria-trump-and-putin-help-israel-limit-iran-s-military-presence</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia and the U.S. are on board to limit Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s military presence in Syria. For Israel, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a start.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Deal for the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-26/mideast-peace-trump-tells-palestinians-to-go-for-greed</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. will tell the Palestinians to take it or leave it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Trump's Middle East, Israel Is No Longer the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-21/in-trump-s-middle-east-israel-is-no-longer-the-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Donald Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' National Security Strategy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' made waves'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for its unexpected emphasis on alliances, tough talk on trade, and focus on homeland protection. But few have noticed, buried on page 49, a paragraph that marks a sea change in decades of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Teaches Palestinians About the New Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-06/trump-teaches-palestinians-about-the-new-middle-east</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Appearances can be deceiving. There is more than generosity, or fidelity to a campaign promise, behind this move. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s many critics don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t give him much credit for strategic thinking, but I think that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what we are seeing right now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Talking North Korea and Iran With Israel's Rocket Man]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-21/talking-north-korea-and-iran-with-israel-s-rocket-man</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yitzhak Ben-Israel thinks Kim's cyberwarriors are third-rate, U.S. missile defense is good, and the Iran deal is a keeper.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Has a Playbook for Dealing With North Korea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-07/israel-has-a-playbook-for-dealing-with-north-korea</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel and North Korea are on opposite sides of the Asian landmass, separated by 5,000 miles as the ICBM flies. But Israelis feels close to the nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang. They have faced this sort of crisis before, and may again. Some history: In the mid-1970s, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[50 Years Later, a Bet on Israel Pays Off]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/50-years-later-a-bet-on-israel-pays-off</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week marks a personal milestone: the 50th anniversary of my arrival in Israel. I was a junior year abroad student from the University of Michigan, in search of college credits and a look at Jews in their natural habitat. It didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t occur to me that I would wind up going native.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. and Russia Need a Middleman. Enter Bibi Netanyahu.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-17/the-middle-east-s-new-peacemaker-israel</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The liberation of Mosul in Iraq and the imminent collapse of the Islamic State's Syrian capital of Raqqa are wins for President Donald Trump. He was elected on a promise to pound the terrorists into submission, and that is happening. Trump is a believer in hard power, which is the only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Likes Women. This Is News to the New York Times?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/05/16/donald-trump-likes-women-this-is-news-to-new-york-times.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday morning the New York Times led the paper with a sensational, front-page expose titled, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved in Private with Women.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' For months the Times has been inveighing against Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attitude toward women. For six weeks, a team of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Hampshire Will Go Down as Where Hillary Lost Her Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/02/08/new-hampshire-will-go-down-as-place-where-hillary-clintons-campaign-lost-its-way.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political prognostication is an uncertain art, never more so than in the New Hampshire primaries of 2016.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  On the eve of the elections, equipped as I am with all the most scientific polling and profoundest opinions of the professional pundits, I still wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t place a bet on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huckabee Went Too Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/27/with-holocaust-comment-huckabee-has-gone-too-far.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I like Mike Huckabee. I covered his bid for the Republican nomination in 2008, and found him to be smart, charming and exceptionally decent.Back then, Huckabee and I spoke a fair amount about Israel and the strategic threats it faces. He left no doubt that he stood with the Jewish state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's First Jewish President?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/27/barack-obama-americas-first-jewish-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March, 2013, President Barack Obama paid a state visit to Israel. At the airport he introduced Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to his staff. One was Benjamin Rhodes, his deputy national security advisor and speechwriter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[March Madness in the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/16/israeli-elections-march-madness-in-middle-east/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is sheer coincidence that the Israeli election and the NCAA Men'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Basketball Tournament are both starting Tuesday, but they have some characteristics in common. For one thing, both versions of March Madness feature a bewilderingly large list of participants. Sixty-eight teams are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Chickensh'&#'.ord('*').';'t Knows About Lame Ducks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/29/white-house-netanyahu-insults-what-chickens-knows-about-lame-ducks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After months of humiliating inaction in the Middle East, the Obama administration has finally launched a full scale attack.On Israel.It comes in response to an announcement by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu that Israel is going ahead with plans to build about a thousand housing units...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Jews Turn on Obama &amp; Dems in 2014?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/29/will-jews-turn-on-obama-dems-in-2014-and-turn-out-for-gop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This year, as in every election year since Barack Obama has been in the White House, we are hearing the cry of the hopeful Republican: This is the year that Jewish voters and donors and activists are going to turn on the president and his party and turn out for the GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Ailes Off Camera]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/03/roger-ailes-biography-excerpt</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and controversial'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts. His Fox News was accused of being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jim Webb Reassesses the Political Battlefield]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/19/the-new-calculus-for-conservative-democrats.print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zev Chafets</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. James Webb, above, is being uncharacteristically coy about his plans for the 2012 election.On Veterans Day a crowd of 300 or so Virginians gathered in a tent on the grounds of the estate of Gen. George C. Marshall. They were there to commemorate what they still regard as their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh: GOP's Real Go-To Guy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chafets29-2008sep29,0,1444137.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh is Just Getting Warmed Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=login</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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