Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has come under scrutiny for an opinion piece he wrote 30 years ago, now that the Democrat is a top contender to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday.

As a 20-year-old student at the University of Rochester in 1993, Shapiro wrote in “Peace Not Possible,” which ran in the student newspaper: “Using history as precedent, peace between Arabs and Israelis is virtually impossible and will never come.”

He went on to write: “Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

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