The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 526)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 526)
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Chapter VI: Footnotes
1.
Manpower in Israel/1964 - Annual Report, State of Israel, Ministry of
Labor, Manpower Planning Authority, Jerusalem, August, 1964, p. 77.
Israel Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, Supplement 26, July-December,
1975, pp. 48-50.
Spatial organization of the country during the Yishuv period seems to
be nothing but an expression of the struggle between big Jewish capi-
tal and petty Jewish capital of the pioneering settlers themselves,
between the private sector dominating the urban sphere and the co-op-
erative sector dominating the rural sphere. It is a struggle for domi-
nation between primitive accumulation of petty capital and that of
modern accumulation.
"The co-operative and collective settlements developed under the aus-
pices of the Histadrut, created central co-operative for marketing
(tnuva) and supplies (hamashbir) with ‘direct links' between the cen-
tral moshavim or kibbutzim to the three major cities with almost com-
plete elimination of the intermediate stage of small- and medium-sized
urban centers."
In Israel, the central-place movement won over the opposition of the
rural petty bourgeoisie. The central-place hierarchical model of spa-
tial organization was, according to Brutzkus, advocated by big capi-
tal and physical planners already in the Yishuv but defeated by the
opposition of the kibbutz and co-operative movements that insisted on
strict separation between rural/urban sectors and on rejecting any
integration through mediating settlements.
When the State was established, reconciliating this conflict between
the urban and rural factions of the ruling class became possible,
being by definition the central role of the bourgeois State. The
implementation of the central-place spatial model resulted from the
State intervention on behalf of the urban bourgeoisie and in the form
of a national urban growth strategy (the New Development Towns)
rationalized by the objective of population dispersion for the secur-
ity of the State. Later, in the form of regional plans based on cen-
tral-place theory, the best example of which is the internationally-
known (and exported) Lachish Regional Plan. These central-place-orien-
ted forms being inserted into the former rural-urban spatial dichotomy
shaped the hierarchical character of the spatial form of the country.
That this spatial organization is the function of the social organi-
zation of production can be concluded also from the functioning of
this hierarchical structure in the reproduction of the dominant capi-
tal.
On the advocacy of hierarchical models, see Eliezer Brutzkus, Regional
Policy in Israel, op.cit., p. 18. We must keep in mind that Israel is
the only developing country in the world that applied urban capitalist - تاريخ
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