The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 174)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 174)

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chases from the British Administration in Palestine. This is probably be-
cause the British, by virtue of their political power and means, had assisted
Zionist land acquisition in a rather indirect, but more effective, way. In
1922, for example, Shmoel, the British Mandatory High Commissioner to Pales-
tine (el-Mandoub es-sami), imposed a law prohibiting the export of oils and
grains (the main indigenous crops and the basis of the country's wealth) so
that, in effect, peasants failed to pay taxes and repay agricultural loans
and, therefore, were forced to sell their land to Jewish settlers. Shmoel
went even further: he eliminated the Ottoman Agricultural Bank and demanded
the immediate repayment of loans, leaving the Palestinian peasants with no
other alternative but to sell their plots of land and to become landless with
nothing but their labor power. >
On July 24 of the same year, a mandate was issued by the British facili-
tating Jewish immigration and providing the Zionist movement with the right
to el-Amiri and el-Mowat lands (the commons), usually controlled by the poli-
tical authorities, the "State". 16
Moreover, the Mandatory authorities provided the Zionist companies with
the exclusive privilege, accompanied by political and economic protection, to
develop the Lake Houlah region, which alone constitutes one-third of Pales-
tine's arable land.”
In the late 1920s, the British authorities granted Zionist companies
82,000 donams of agricultural land, in addition to lands provided for indus-
trial development by Zionist monopolistic companies.
This is to give only a few examples of the role of the British colonial
authorities in the dispossession of the Palestinian peasantry, and the en-
hancement of Jewish settlement.
As far as the creation of labor surplus is concerned, the worst effects

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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