AP: Carter: If no Palestine, Israel sees 'catastrophe'

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Carter: If no Palestine, Israel sees 'catastrophe'

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

Carter pointed out in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday that Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land in the foreseeable future.

He said 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 said that with the third option, one would no longer have a Jewish state...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_carter_1

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1. There's a 4th option...

See: Gaza 2009