The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 195)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 195)

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tries as the Palestine Electric Corporation and the Palestine
Potash Company, based on government concessions, do so as part
of their agreement. Other large private industries, such as
the Nir Match Company and Portland Cement, employ mixed labor,
as do some smaller establishments. In the old colonies, Arab
agricultural labor predominated; at least until the time of the
1936 disturbances. In some cases, as in Petach Teksa' Arab
labor is used almost exclusively....Arab labor is not employed
on lands belonging to the Jewish National Fund. The agricul-
tural settlements founded on such land are based on the prin-
ciple of "self-labor", and no outside labor -- either Arab or
Jewish -- is employed. In addition, there is a clause in the
Jewish National Fund lease which prohibits the lessee from
engaging any but Jewish labor." 88
One must consider the likelihood of exaggeration in this statement, as
the Esco Foundation sounds proponent of Zionist enterprises. This apolo-
getic attitude is best articulated in the use of the term "1936 disturban-
ces"; this refers to the revolt of Palestinian displaced peasants and boy-
cotted labor as disturbances to Zionist colonization efforts in Palestine).
The point is that the Labor-Zionist movement could not practice its slogans
without counter-productive effects; the contradictory requirements and con-
sequences of Zionist capitalism in Palestine compelled the Histadrut (only
seven years after its establishment in 1920) to organize Arab labor, in.
order to control it and regulate its effects on the "only Hebrew labor pol-
icy" of the Zionist movement. Another attempt by the Histadrut to mask with
"socialist" rationale her non-socialist motive, is reflected in the follow-
ing position as reported by the Esco Foundation for Palestine:
",.-employment of Arabs in Jewish industry would lead to a class
stratification in Palestine along racial lines, with the Jews
acting as capitalist employers and the Arabs as workers -- thus
repeating in Palestine all the abnormalities that have led to
anti-Semitism in the Diaspora. By creating a higher wage stan-
dard through organization, the Jewish worker also prepares the
ground for adaptation of higher standards among the Arabs. If
the Jewish laborer should disappear from the market, the Arab
laborers would continue at their old wage as an exploited and op-
pressed class. Meeting the moral argument, the Histadrut pro-
poses collaboration with the Arab worker through the creation of

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