Salman Rushdie says a free Palestine state today would be Taliban-like

Rushdie, a British-Indian author, warned the world that Gaza would become like the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as Hamas would rule it.

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep," wrote Salman Rushdie in The Satanic Verses. Rushdie himself has started an argument on the Israel-Palestine dispute, saying that establishing a Palestinian state right now would mean creating a "Taliban-like state".

What has to be remembered is that the Indian-origin author has been a life-long proponent of a free Palestinian state.

Rushdie, a British-Indian author, warned the world that Gaza would become like the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as Hamas would rule it.

He also discussed the pro-Palestine protests on the US campus and did not pick a side in an interview with the German rbb24 TV channel on Sunday.

Rushdie revealed he had "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".

The author asked if this is what the western Left called a progressive movement. He cautioned the western world against the rise of "another Ayatollah Khomeini".