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Source: http://www.tnr.com/article/tel-aviv-journal/85426/tel-aviv-journal-the-atrocity-in-itamar
The Atrocity in Itamar
(New Republic) Martin Peretz - Most of Israel is still grieving for the five people in the Fogel family who were murdered late Friday night in the religious settlement of Itamar, near Shechem (or Nablus) where, more or less, Jewish history began. One of the great acts of Zionist statesmanship was when the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted the parsimonious cartography of their future state. Chaim Weizman, who later became the first president of Israel, said it with heavy heart: The Jews would take a state even if it were the size of a tablecloth. If the Palestinians were constituted as a real nation they would have long ago come to a similar conclusion. Palestinian nationhood is not a product built from outside. And it won't be reinforced when and if the General Assembly will declare Palestine a state.