Sir Salman Rushdie has argued that if a new Palestinian state was formed “right now” it would mean the creation of a “Taliban-like state”.
The Indian-born British-American Midnight’s Children author, 76, said that he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life – since the 1980s, probably. Right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban-like state, and it would be a client state of Iran”.
