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The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality


[Jewish Political Studies Review] Sidney Zabludoff - Number of Jewish refugees in 1948 and following years: close to 1,000,000. Number of Palestinian refugees in 1948: 550,000, plus 100,000 (net) in 1967. Jewish refugees' assets lost in Middle East and North Africa: $6 billion. Palestinian refugees' assets lost: $3.9 billion (in 2007 dollars). The writer is an international economist who has worked on numerous economic issues at the CIA, White House, and Treasury, as well as issues of restitution of assets stolen by the Nazis.
2008-04-02 01:00:00
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