Middle East Policy Analyst

Mitchell Bard

1 article 1997

Mitchell Bard is an author and foreign policy analyst specializing in the Middle East and U.S.-Israel relations. He is the executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and has written numerous books on Middle East politics. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of Palestinian governance and aid issues.

THE PALESTINIAN WELFARE STATE

October 6, 1997 · Magazine

WHEN THE UNITED NATIONS VOTED in November 1947 to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, violence quickly broke out and escalated to all- out war. One byproduct of that war was the creation of an international welfare program for Palestinian refugees, disproportionately funded by the…