Israel's economic warfare on Palestine

This was buried in an article about the effects of remittances on development and international politics.

"Controls on remittances as a form of economic warfare have been most evident in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2000, Israel drastically reduced the number of work permits for Palestinians because of security concerns and instead imported roughly a quarter of a million foreign workers, mostly from East Asia and Africa. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza saw their gross national income per capita decline by about 30 percent in 2001 and 2002 combined. In contrast, remittance outflows from Israel tripled in the 1990s, to nearly $3 billion in 2001."

--Devesh Kapur and John McHale, "Migration's New Payoff", Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec 2003, p. 55.