The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 175)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 175)

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were those inflicted on the Palestinian peasantry by the collaboration be-
tween Arab feudal lords and the Zionist movement. By 1928, most of the Jew-
ish land holdings (90 percent) had been purchased from absentee landlords,
leaving 30 percent of the Palestinian peasants landless. Between 1921-1925,
the Sarsaq land-holding family, for example, had sold 200,000 donams on
which had existed twenty-two Arab villages with 8,780 inhabitants, all of
whom were evicted, becoming wanderers all around the country.” With the
help of absentee Arab landlords, Arab villages were removed, to be replaced
by Jewish settlements. By 1900, there were already nineteen Jewish settle-
ments erected in Palestine, reaching thirty in the summer of 1912 and occupy-
ing 280,000 donams of land. On the eve of World War I, the number of Jewish
settlements reached fifty-nine, inhabited by 12,000 settlers, while 70,000
dwelled in existing urban centers; and already in 1927, there were ninety-
six new settlements.>° Later on, between 1933-1936, 62.7 percent of the
land purchased by Jewish capital was from Palestinian feudal lords, as com-
pared with only 14.9 percent from absentee land-holders, and 22.5 percent
from Palestinian small peasants.
Ghassan Kanafani indicates that during the August, 1929, and the 1936
mass insurrections in Palestine many small peasants sold their land to Pales-
tinian feudal lords in order to buy with cash weapons for waging their armed
struggle against British and Zionist colonialism, and often these landlords,
in turn, sold the purchased land to the Zionist movement.
The latter is most indicative of the reactionary role played by Pales-
tine's big land-holding class with regard to the Palestinian masses. If
Zionism had only crushed this class, it would have played a crucially pro-
gressive role in Palestinian history, but the very lust for land gave the

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