The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 301)
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appropriators to invest in intensive cultivation except in a relatively limited way.
Given this, less risky investment such as building and construction and trade
provided more favorable alternatives. At a more general level, the government was
very careful in its dealings with the rural areas and the implementation of policies
such as the provision of credit and the introduction of new techniques so as not to
upset the existing socioeconomic structure and patterns of domination.* This
approach was also evident in the government’s administrative and educational
policies.*© The complete separation of the majority of peasants from the land
without the availability of alternative sources of income or jobs was a potential
source of social unrest that the government was always cognizant of and careful to
avoid.*’
Second, there was the presence of and competition from a Jewish European
capitalist “sector” with substantial capital and other resources that sought to
develop along exclusivist lines, especially after 1936. Unlike some other colonial
settler projects, the Zionist settlers, on the whole, did not seek Arab labor in spite
of the exception to this at different times and for different reasons. So, while Arab
peasants were being expropriated, European industry closed its doors to them, and
Arab industry could not provide sufficient jobs. Although, as already noted, there
was investment in intensive cultivation and manufacturing by Arabs, the bulk was
*SSarah Graham-Brown, “The Political Economy,” 99-100.
*“Ylana Miller, Government and Society in Rural Palestine, 1920-1948 (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1985).
“Sarah Graham-Brown, “The Political Economy,” 99-100.
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