The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 78)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 78)

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Jewish land purchases, but mainly population pressures “create[d] conditions
favorable” for that. The big landowners, who did have the resources to alter the
cropping system, did not have easy “access to markets” because of “difficulties of
road transport.”''® The government’s efforts were also insufficient. Nonetheless,
some changes were being made in agricultural practices, but with the end of the
Mandate, “the full consequences of Jewish settlement for Arab society were never
worked out in the context of Palestine.”''? Jewish land purchases, then, basically
hastened the need to alter the cropping system.
In essence, then, Kamen marginalizes the impact of European Jewish
settlement and acquisition of land (but he also rejects the idea of its positive impact
as in “demonstration effects”), because he deals only with its direct effects on
adjacent areas. This is a static understanding of European acquisition of land since
it does not deal with its major impetus in intensifying the market for land in the
whole country. The worsening of the conditions of the majority of peasants cannot
be separated from the intensified commoditization of land. Also, the impact of
European land acquisitions cannot be isolated from the overall impact of European
settlement in conjunction with government policies and the structure and changes in
Arab rural society. This impact has to be understood in the context of the role
played by each of the three and in connection with each other in the spread of
market relations and the further intensified integration of the country in the world
'8Kamen, Little Common Ground, 263.
Ibid., 261.
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