ABSTRACT
Arguably, the government sought concessions payable in political rights rather than money, but this bears little effect on the analysis.9 Dr Joe Saba, the
Resident Mission Director of the World Bank in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in a speech delivered in Nablus on 29 September 1998. Quoted in the Palestine
Economic Pulse 3:5, September-October 1998:4-5.10 Payment may be extracted in kind, an interpretation that fits better the description in the historical section:
according to the Palestinian side, Israel’s closure policy was intended to renegotiate the Oslo Agreement and extract more concessions, territorial and
other.
