The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 199)

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عنوان
The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 199)
المحتوى
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ers of Zion), the main protagonists of proletarian Zionism. The Histadrut
(dominated throughout its existence by MAPAI, the largest Party in the
Zionist labor movement and in the Yishuv, as well) represented right-wing
Poalie-Tzion and had its main bases of support in the United States as ex-
plicitly anti-Bolshevik. Hashomer Hatzair represented left-wing Poalie-
Tzion; it centered in East Europe. It regarded itself the bearer of ortho-
dox Borochovism and tried to mobilize the Comintern support, for what it
conceived to be the "integration of pioneering Zionism within revolutionary
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socialism: colonization with class struggle.
The kibbutzim established by Hashomer Hatzair (whose founding fathers
belonged to the Third Aliyah) organized into a federation (Hakibbutz Haar-
tzi) in 1927 and formed the base of this movement overemphasizing Halutziut
(pioneering) and voluntarism in constructing the new Jewish Society in
Palestine.
With its members protected in their communal settlements from Arab com-
petition, Hashomer Hatzair could afford to oppose the Histadrut labor policy
and advocate what appeared to be more progressive slogans: "the problem of
cheap Arab competition must be met in a more constructive way" (instead of
the 100 percent Hebrew labor and the separate labor organization advocated
by the Histadrut and MAPAT). "A program of a common organization of Jews
and Arabs in single unions is essential for reducing the amount of unorgan-
ized labor within the country !"??
Realizing that cooperation with the Arab worker could not come about
so long as the program of "only Jewish labor" is followed to the point of
excluding all Arab workers from the Jewish economy, Hashomer Hatzair pro-
posed the following tradeoff: "acceptance of the principle of mass Jewish
immigration to Palestine," for "the affirmation of the equal rights of
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المنشئ
Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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