Democratic Palestine : 36 (ص 4)
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arrests and the confiscation of about $8
million worth of personal property,
several times more than the taxes
assessed.
The UNL continued the general
lines of boycotting Israeli products, tax
payment and the civil administration,
meanwhile strengthening local agricul-
ture and manufacture. The calls of
1989 distinguish themselves by more
guidelines for regulating the
socioeconomic life. The trade and
labour markets were regulated. The
UNL issued guidelines to fix prices,
rents, and the rates for leasing land
and selling irrigation water. It called
for raising workers’ and employees’
wages in line with the Jordanian
dinar’s devaluation and price hikes.
National committees were formed to
arbitrate labor disputes between Pales-
tinian workers and employees:
March 21st was set as the deadline
for ending street vending and mobile
money exchange booths, for these had
often remained outside the intifada’s
guidelines. March 28th was the last day
for merchants to deal with any Israeli
product for which there are a local
substitute. (The Israeli trade surplus
with 1967 occupied territories can be
expected to fall even more in 1989,
having already decreased from $174
million in 1987, to $56 million in 1988,
according to the Bank of Israel.) There
were efforts to extend the national
market in two directions: Palestinians
living in 1948 occupied territories were
called on to buy West Bank and Gaza
Strip products, while the latter two
areas were encouraged to buy from the
Golan Heights.
This regulation was reinforced with
militant acts whereby tax offices were
attacked and records burned; accoun-
tants who didn’t comply with the
boycott were put out of business. The
masses were also organized in recon-
struction committees to rebuild
demoiished houses in defiance of the
occupation authorities’ orders.
Symbolic of the new system being
created was the declaration of summer
time in the State of Palestine on a dif-
ferent date than that set by Israel. The
occupation authorities reacted violently
to even this symbolic manifestation of
independence, with soldiers running
around smashing watches. The con-
certed attempts to organize an alterna-
tive education system, in a year when
schools were closed most of the time,
met with even more brutality.
Teachers and other citizens were
harassed and arrested for instructing
children in their homes or setting up
out-of-school study programs.
Further steps towards independence
were taken as people refused to pay
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