- An excellent study of the immediate post-1967 factors at work within Israeli politics and their effect on early economic decisions is Ann Mosely Lesch, Israel's Occupation of the West Bank: The First Two Years (Santa Monica, California: The Rand Corporation, 1970), pp. 21–36.
- For example, the distance from Nablus to Tel Aviv is only thirty-five miles. Hebron is about fifty-five miles from Tel Aviv, and Gaza forty-five miles. Distances between Jerusalem and the main West Bank centers of Nablus and Hebron are even less, thirty and twenty miles respectively.
- For more detail see Nabil Shaath, “High Level Palestinian Manpower,” Journal of Palestine Studies 1 (1971-72): 80–95; and Lafi Jaafari, “The Brain Drain to the United States: The Migration of Jordanian and Palestinian Professionals and Students,” Journal of Palestine Studies 3 (1973-74): 199–131.
- Vivian Bull, The West Bank — Is it Viable? (Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1975), p. 12.
- Ibid., pp. 12–13.
- Eliyahu Kanovsky, The Economic Impact of the Six-Day War (New York: Praeger, 1970), pp. 424–425.
- Ibid., p. 422.
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