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        4/3/2008, Adar Bet 27, 5768

      New Study: Jewish Refugees' Assets Double That of Arabs


      Former CIA and U.S. Treasury official Sidney Zabludoff  has released a new study titled The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality, which has just been published in the Jewish Political Studies Review by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

      The study compares the lost assets of the Arabs who fled Israel with the Jewish Refugees from Arab countries and concludes that the Jewish assets were some 50 percent larger than those of the so-called Palestinian refugees and the difference in individual assets lost was even greater.
       
      Total lost assets at current dollar rate:
      Arabs: $3.9 billion
      Jews: $6 billion

      Number of refugees:
      Arabs in 1948: 550,000
      Arabs in 1967: 100,000
      Jewish refugees in 1948 and following years: close to 1,000,000