The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 151)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 151)
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that replaces the indigenous one was to be developed in order to give rise
to the Jewish State. For this reason, the Jewish settlers were prohibited
from exploiting the indigenous labor. Immigrant Jewish labor was mobilized
to replace the native. The "conquest of Hebrew labor" became the incentive
for Jewish proletarianization, equivalent in some ways to the "work ethic"
in the United States settler-colonialism. Jewish proletarianization was
also the result of generalizing the capitalist relations of production on
the Jewish immigrant population alone, becoming both bourgeoisie and pro-
letariat; but not on the native Palestinians, who were excluded even from
proletarianization. The Palestinians were not meant exactly to be annihil-
ated, as in the case of the American Indians; they were only to be denied
the possibility of wage-earning. Emphasizing the imperative of exclusive
Jewish proletarianization in Palestine, Borochov said: "...any majority
today which will not be able to reach naturally proletarianization, or
that proletarianization is barred from it, will be increasingly expelled
of its position to the point of death,"1+ Does this imply that underlying
the commitment to proletarian Zionism there was an a priori awareness of
the detrimental repercussions it was to necessarily inflict on the native
Palestinian producers? This question is to be kept in mind for a later
discussion.
The central theme of this chapter is to illustrate how Jewish colonial
settlement in Palestine, while implementing Labor-Zionism (hence, the
generalization of the capitalist relations with regard to Jews alone in
the form of exclusive Jewish proletarianization and capitalization), had
blocked the proletarianization of the native Palestinians.
To this end, we identify three historical phases in Jewish colonial - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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