The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 61)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 61)

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He concludes that there was a “net transfer of resources from the high-income
Jewish community to the low-income Arab community.””’ Metzer adds that there
was a “Jewish advantage in the per-capita utilization of government in the form of
more public services and aid.” This discussion about the benefits that government
policies may have had on the two communities has been accurately characterized as
a “sterile debate” deriving from the adoption of the two separate economies’
assumption rather than a single larger Palestinian economy.” What was more
important was a differential impact those policies had, including taxation, between
and within the two communities.
For example, Metzer’s first period of 1921-1933, when direct taxes were
relatively high and were primarily levied, as Metzer points out, “on land,
livestock, and gross agricultural output,” was a time when taxes represented a
major burden on peasants (the majority of the Arab population) and were one of
the major factors contributing to increased debt and in many cases loss of land.
This was at a time before the introduction of comparable urban taxes, something
that was recommended in 1930 but not implemented until 1941, and as Metzer
acknowledges, because of pressures and objection of the organized Jewish
community ,”> which mostly resided in urban areas.
"Tbid., 187.
“Owen, “Introduction,” 6.
*Metzer, Divided Economy, 181.
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