An article in yesterday\'s Los Angeles Times does not quote exact statistics, but says that many Arabs are leaving Judea and Samaria for other countries. It notes that at least 20% of the student body in Al Najah School in Ramallah (kindergarten through high school) have already left, while at the Quaker-run Friends School, 15% of the students will not return next fall. Dr. Alex Bligh, Middle Eastern expert from the College of Judea and Samaria and a former advisor to the Prime Minister on Arab Affairs, told Arutz-7 today that exact numbers are unavailable, \"but I don\'t think they reach the level of 100,000. There is definitely a stream of people leaving. Some 40% of the Arab population in Judea and Samaria is under the poverty line, and 1/3 are unemployed.\" Yediot Acharonot reported that four full busloads of disappointed Palestinians left for Jordan each day, over the course of several weeks. Bligh said that Jordan no longer allows Palestinians under the age of 50 to enter, \"as the population there already has more Palestinians than others, although here too the exact numbers are in dispute; somewhere between 55% and 70% are Palestinian.\"
Palestinians In Jordan
An article in yesterday\'s Los Angeles Times does not quote exact statistics, but says that many Arabs are leaving Judea and Samaria for other countries. It notes that at least 20% of the student body in Al Najah School in Ramallah (kindergarten through high school) have already left, while at the Quaker-run Friends School, 15% of the students will not return next fall. Dr. Alex Bligh, Middle Eastern expert from the College of Judea and Samaria and a former advisor to the Prime Minister on Arab Affairs, told Arutz-7 today that exact numbers are unavailable, \"but I don\'t think they reach the level of 100,000. There is definitely a stream of people leaving. Some 40% of the Arab population in Judea and Samaria is under the poverty line, and 1/3 are unemployed.\" Yediot Acharonot reported that four full busloads of disappointed Palestinians left for Jordan each day, over the course of several weeks. Bligh said that Jordan no longer allows Palestinians under the age of 50 to enter, \"as the population there already has more Palestinians than others, although here too the exact numbers are in dispute; somewhere between 55% and 70% are Palestinian.\"