The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 31)

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broader, more historical methodology to assist our inquiry.
As indicated above, there have been basically three approaches to the study
of the Palestine economy during the Mandate period: (a) one that uses a “dual-
economy” approach, (b) one that employs the “articulation of capitalist/
noncapitalist” modes of production, and (c) one that views Palestine as a “typical
colony.”*’ However, most of the extant literature employs the dual-economy
approach. The major assumption of all who use this approach is that there existed
in Palestine two economies or two sectors, one Arab (traditional) and one Jewish
(modern), and that these sectors or economies developed separately from each
other. Any relationship between the two sectors, when acknowledged, is
considered limited and thus inconsequential. The ideological implication of the
dual-economy approach is that the Israeli economy that was borne out of the
Mandate period was largely or entirely a self-made entity reliant primarily or
exclusively on its own internal dynamism and its connection to European
immigration and European capital.
Although there are several variants within this dualistic approach, they all
share one feature that may be considered as the foundation for their analysis: the
stress on the different social and economic characteristics of the “two sectors.”
The differences between the two sectors become, in themselves, implicitly or
explicitly, the basis for the thesis of dual economy and separate development.
7Roger Owen, “Introduction,” Studies in the Economic and Social History of
Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1982), 3-8.
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Riyad Mousa

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