The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 36)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 36)

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services came to only about 7 percent of Palestine’s national
income.”
However, in a footnote, they concede, “Since 1936 was a year of open hostility,
this may be less than in peaceful years” [emphasis mine]. In other words, they
selected data on one exceptional year that fits with their assumption of limited
interaction and separate “economies,” and chose to ignore the years preceding and
following the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939. Besides their reliance on selective data,
their analysis and conclusions hinge on the obvious different social and economic
characteristics of the two communities without delving into the underlying process
of mutual impact and government policies.
Another example of this variant is the work of Horowitz and Lissak.** In
general, their points of emphasis and argument are similar to Halevi and Klinov-
Malul. However, in addition to economic differences between the two
communities, they stress the cultural, social, and political differences, and their
“ecological segregation.” In the economic sphere, they also speak of competition
faced by the Jewish economy from the “Arab economy” in the labor and product
markets because of the cheaper costs of the latter. The competition in the labor was
because of “a surplus of agricultural labour [sic] [which] appeared in the Arab
economy” [emphasis mine] at the turn of the twentieth century. No explanation
was Offered as to how and why this “surplus labor” made its “appearance.” An
Tbid., 38.
Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, Origins of the Israeli Polity, Palestine
Under the Mandate (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978).
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