The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 214)

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the only other customer for Palestinian soap, are mostly acid oil soap.””' In the
case of olive oil soap exports to Egypt, they fall from a high of 5,512 tons in 1925
to 792 tons in 1937.”
Thus, a combination of a government-trade policy that provided tax
exemptions for materials used in soap production, and therefore a cheaper product,
and the loss of the Egyptian market, drove traditional soap making from being one
of the major industries to a “dying” one.” By 1945, total output of soap was
about 11,000 tons, of which only 2,500 tons were made from local olive oil and
the rest from imported oil seeds” used in European settler factories.
Similarly, there was the 1926 ordinance that established tax exemption for
the importation of seeds, nuts, and beans used for the extraction of oil.” Between
1928 and 1942, about 276,000 tons of such raw materials were imported.” For
the same period, more than 14,000 tons of edible oil (other than olive oil) was
exported,” thus surpassing the amount of olive oil export of about 8,000 tons.
“Himadeh, “Industry,” 266.
“Brown, “Agriculture,” 146.
*?Nathan et al., 469.
“Survey II, 830.
Survey I, 453.
Abstract 1939, 64-5; Abstract 1940, 65; Abstract 1943, 97.
"Abstract 1939, 70-1; Abstract 1940, 71; Abstract 1943, 99.
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