The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 59)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 59)

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total Arab imports came from the Jewish economy, and the latter imported 20
percent of its total from the Arab economy.™ As for exports, 62 percent (50
percent net of land) of all Arab exports went to the Jewish economy and “for as
much as 87 percent of Arab noncitrus farm exports in 1935,”® and Jewish
exports to the Arab economy comprised 26 percent of total Jewish exports but “the
Arab sector was the major outlet for the export of Jewish manufactured goods,
[buying] about two-thirds of it.”*
A further breakdown showed that Arabs sold 13 percent of their total
manufactured output to the Jewish economy and about 25 percent of their marketed
noncitrus agricultural output. “No less than 88 percent of [all exports, excluding
citrus] were sold to Jews.”®’ On the other hand, Jewish exports of manufactured
goods to Arabs represented 12 percent of total Jewish manufactured output in
1935.
The question that arises here again is what level of interaction is allowable
to maintain the thesis of two economies. However, as important as this quantitative
dimension is, what is more crucial is that the figures of the interaction between the
two economies that Metzer provides imply a not insubstantial degree of mutual
impact and dependency. These figures, in other words, undermine his assumption
*“Tbid.
Thid., 172.
*Tbid., 172-3.
STbid., 173.
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