The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 178)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 178)

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Armistice agreements of 1948-1949, Israel was in control of 77.4 percent of
arable land and exceeded 80 percent by 1950; it was estimated that more than
770,000 Palestinians became refugees .?° This massive separation of Pales-
tinian producers from their means of subsistence in response to the Zionist
conquest of land was thus conducted not through the "gentle and careful mo-
dels" prescribed by Herzl, but rather through violent expulsion, resulting
in the refugee camps persisting as "native labor reserves", doomed to be un-
productive, and marginalized as "surplus" population. This is precisely in
contrast with white settler-colonialism in Africa, where the expulsion of
African producers from their subsistence forms of life, and the consolida-
tion of the "native labor reserves" was precisely to create a system of
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forced labor; but Zionism then needed only Arab land, but not Arab labor.
The physical displacement of Palestinians and their transfer across
the borders in the aftermath of the 1948 War was not an accident; neither
was the war itself. It was proposed and discussed by leaders of the Zionist
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movement already in 1940. Joseph Weitz commented in September, 1967, that
twenty-seven years ago he had written the following in his diary:
"Among ourselves it must be clear that there is no place in the
country for both peoples together....With the Arabs, we shall
not achieve our aim of being independent people in this country.
The only solution is Eretz-Israel, at least the west part of
Eretz-Israel without Arabs...and there is no other way but to
transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries,
transfer all of them, not one village or tribe shall remain,
and the transfer must aim at Iraq, Syria, and even Transjordan.
For this purpose, money will be found, much money; and only
with this transfer could the country absorb millions of our
brothers. There is no alternative...." 60
“joseph Weitz was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jew-
ish National Fund (1951-1973), Head of Plant and Afforestation Department of
the JNF (1918-1932), Director of the Land Development Division of JNF (1932-
1959), Chairman of the Israel Land Development Authority.

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