The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 213)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 213)
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following: this period was that of mass immigration of Jewish refugees
fleeing Nazism and of Oriental Jews partly expelled and partly mobilized
by the Zionist movement, mainly for demographic requirement of national
Sovereignty. The point is that they were not ideologically mobilized by
proletarian Zionism, as in the case in the majority of the pioneer set-
tlers of the Yishuv. In this sense, the Yishuv methods for boycotting
Arab labor became unnecessary under the considerable pressure to absorb
Jewish immigrants.
Moreover, after Statehood the boycott of Arab labor was not function-
ally identical with the imperative of Jewish proletarianization before
Statehood. Jewish class struggle was no longer an objective leading to
the emergence of the Jewish State. The State was already there in need of
a large army. Absorption of a wide Jewish base became, therefore, quite
accurately indispensable for the security of the State.
The actual boycott of Arab labor -- the impediments of Palestinian
proletarianization during nation-building were more the result of the con-
crete requirements of nation-building itself -- determined by the political,
not the ideological, as in the Yishuv.
The military administration rule (martial law) was simply removed when
upon the construction boom the economy needed Arab labor and had the capa-
city to employ it. Towards the end of the boom and the beginning of reces-
sion, Arab citizens were, like migratory labor, sent back "home" to the
semi-subsistence village. In retrospect, the removal of military adminis-
tration appears to be functionally similar to the removal of slavery in the
United States' South -- providing "freedom" to become wage-labor. A full
treatment of actual employment figures and dynamics during both this phase - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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