' Even secular Israelis may remember that not long before his incapacitating stroke in 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a Haaretz journalist:
"If we were a normal nation, when a visitor arrived here we would take him not to Yad Vashem but rather to Hebron. We'd take him to where our roots are . No other people has anything like it." '
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