The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 217)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 217)
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"A presently characteristic phenomenon in Arab areas is the morning
mass exodus to working places into the Jewish areas and the evening
mass return to living quarters. The Arab village is no longer a
village in the traditional sense of the word, because a considerable
part of its population no longer works in agricultural pursuits,
but rather works the construction trade and/or industry. The Arab
village, however, is still a village in the sense that city condi-
tions do not exist init." 119
The traditional scene of peasants rising up with the dawn, rushing in
family style and with animals to work their own land has been wiped out and
replaced with long caravans of trucks carrying workers to the Jewish work
places. This morning-evening in-the-truck mobility of Arab labor seems to
have become a fixed feature in the "landscape" of daily life. The Arab vil-
lage which used to be a semi-subsistence community has been transformed into
a “bedroom community", with its main function being that of reproducing Arab
labor power for Jewish capital, with the reproduction cost falling less on
the Jewish work place and more on the Arab residential place, to which labor
is forced to return; 12° in this sense, it is becoming increasingly similar to
' ‘ . 121
the Bantus' native labor reserves of South Africa.
The effects on Jewish communities are rather qualitatively different, as
expressed, for example, by Debora Namir, a woman moshav member from Kfar Vet-
kin, who in 1972 published an open letter titled, "We live the Style of Life
of Effendis,'' to the Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan, in which she says:
"I was born in a moshav and am married to a moshav member. We live
in a moshav in the center of the country. Until the Six Day War, we
lived in peace, worked and earned our bread honorably. Since the war,
the wheels have turned around because my husband has become a con-
tractor of a serious agricultural work. There are no problems. Cheap
labor force is available, and there is great demand in the market.
Today we have five Arab workers, and we reached a situation where
we don't do work at all in our own farm.
"My eldest son refuses today even to mow the lawn: "Muhammed will
mow the grass"'....The children of the moshav are being transformed
before my eyes into children of the rich of the worst and cheapest
kind...until about a week ago, the Arab workers lived in the differ-
ent citrus packing houses in the area. Now it appears that more work- - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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