The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 169)
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the effects it inflicted on the native population.
In his testimony before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on
Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, one of the foremost socialist Zionist thinkers
and practitioners, expresses in concrete terms the comprehensiveness of this
political program, as follows:
"When we say ‘Jewish independence' or a 'Jewish State', we mean
Jewish labour, we mean Jewish economy, Jewish agriculture, Jew-
ish industry, Jewish sea. We mean Jewish safety, security, inde-
pendence, complete independence, as for any other free people." 30
It is in this sense that Jewish settlement is the creation of a complex
system, an entire society, a social formation; and it is in this context
that our inquiry regarding the proletarianization of Palestine must be
placed.
Most relevant to our inquiry are the twin principles, “conquest of land"
and "Hebrew work", which together constitute the cornerstone of this compre-
hensive plan. These two principles are the main determinants of the dis-
placement of Palestinian producers; included here, also, are the institution-
al arrangements which embodied these policies.
Although they appear and are practiced as separate slogans, the conquest
of land and the Hebrew labor policies constitute a functional unity, even in
the bourgeois postulates of Zionism, as expressed in the following words by
Teodore Herzel:
"The private lands in the territories granted to us we must grad-
ually take out of the hands of the owners. The poorer amongst
the population we try to transfer quietly outside our borders
by providing them with work in the transit countries, but in our
country we deny them all work. Those with property will join
us. The transfer of land and the displacement of the poor must
be done gently and carefully. Let the landowners believe that
they are exploiting us by getting over-valued prices. But no
lands shall be sold back to their owners." 31 - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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