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Peretz's prescience

The Tilt by Martin Peretz
The New Republic; 04/26/99-05/03/99

Yes, Mrs. Clinton, just as you said there should be, there will be a state called Palestine, borders as yet undefined. The Palestinian economy will be very corrupt. There will be a coercive Muslim state, run by an extortionate gang of thugs in the worst Third World tradition, which is why tens of thousands of Christian Arabs have been going into permanent exile. And this is the prognosis when everyone still contemplates Arafat as president. Just wait till the Islamic literalists make their bid for power. There is a long tradition of intra-Palestinian terror, and it won't end with a Palestinian state.

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