Reply #4: Carter says if no Palestinian state, Israel will see 'catastrophe'

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NEW YORK - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says Israel will face a "catastrophe" unless it revives the Mideast peace process and establishes an independent Palestinian state.

Carter says in an interview with The Associated Press that Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land in the foreseeable future.

He says that would leave Israel with three options - expelling many Palestinians, keeping the Palestinians but depriving them of equal voting rights, or giving them equal voting rights, which would give the Palestinians a majority.

He says with the third option, one would no longer have a Jewish state.

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