1. R. Kipling, “How Fear Came”, The Jungle Books, 173.
2. For a more detailed analysis of the Israeli policy towards the Palestinian refugee problem, see S.L. Fried, “They Are Not Coming Back” — The crystallisation of Israeli foreign policy toward possible solutions of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947–1956: From the UN Partition Resolution to the Suez Campaign, in Hebrew, Thesis submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Submitted to the Senate of Tel-Aviv University, May 2003 (in review); and also idem, Precious Land-Israel’s Policy on Compensation for Abandoned Palestinian Property, 1947–1951: From the UN Partition Resolution to the Paris Conference, in Hebrew, Thesis submitted for the M.A. Degree in History at Tel-Aviv University, October 1998.
3. For a detailed analysis of these events, see S.L. Fried, “The Refugee Issue at the Peace Conferences, 1949–2000”, Palestine-Israel Journal 9 (2002), 24 et seq.
4. “Consultation at the Ministry of Foreign Office”, 31 January 1950, in: State of Israel, Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, 1950, Vol. 5, Do 62, 82 et seq, in Hebrew.
5. “Stenograms of the Israeli Government”, 3 August 1950, Israel State Archives (ISA), 40 et seq.; 21 August 1950, 3 et seq.; “File of Classified Government Decisions 1949–1954”, A10/7484, 21 August 1950; Documents 5, “M. Sharett to A. Eban”, 27 August 1950, Do 356, 502; “A. Eban to M. Sharett”, 31 August 1950, Do 365, 513; G. Sheffer, Moshe Sharett-Biography of a Political Moderate, 1996, 551.