The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 248)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 248)

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were able to avoid the usurious rates of moneylenders and substantially reduce
their debts or, in some cases, completely eliminate them.’ With a little more
support, progress could have been achieved in small scale irrigation schemes. The
need for the support and encouragement of the government for the formation of
cooperative societies to alleviate the conditions of Arab peasants was a
recommendation made by different official commissions of inquiry throughout the
Mandate period, especially in the 1930s.
Kamen further states that Arab cultivators could have “increased their
chances” of getting machinery had they had the organizational tools that European
farmers had, namely, a committee that publicized the “lease/lend” program and
made recommendations to the government. The Arab farmers applied for the
program on an individual basis. While it is true that Arab peasants lacked such a
committee, it is also true that government representatives were closely familiar
with the different districts of the country and the conditions of peasant
communities. The six administrative districts were each headed by a district
commissioner. These commissioners were aided by twenty-two deputies and
assistant district commissioners in addition to forty-three district officers. Each
district administration, which represented the government, kept “a watchful outlook
on everything,” including public security and the collection of taxes.* The detailed
nature of these two functions kept the government well informed of conditions
7Survey I, 367-8.
‘Ibid., 112.
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