The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 191)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 191)
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daily basis, it also constitutes a material incentive for proletarianization
upon which it becomes a disciplinary mechanism for pacifying the Jewish pro-
letariat.
Another approach for fulfilling its task and accommodating the contra-
dictions inherent in it is the adherence to ideological incentives that
embody nothing but material interests, both economic and political. The
Esco Foundation of Palestine provides numerous examples, as stated below:
"The Histadrut defends its advocacy of the policy of Jewish
labor in Jewish enterprise on the ground that the Jewish home-
land can be built up only on the cornerstone of large working
class immigration. If the principle of one hundred percent
Jewish labor is relaxed, the tendency will be to drive the
Jewish worker out of the Jewish market altogether. Arabs do
not employ Jewish labor. If for no other reason than because
it is more expensive...to permit Arabs to penetrate the Jewish
labor market would mean that the influx of Jewish capital
would be used mostly for Arab development and would defeat
the Zionist purpose of providing for the Jewish immigrants.
(emphasis added)
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The actual material reasons underlying these ideological rationaliza-
tions are made explicit in Palestine: Problem and Promise (1946), an eco-
nomic study by R. Nathan, 0. Gass, and D. Creamer. On "labor organization
and enterprise” they state:
"The protection of the Jewish worker on the job has been one of
the three principal branches of Histadrut activity....In view of
the lower standard of living of the Arab population, job pro-
tection started by insulating the Jewish worker against this
type of competition. This could be assured by stipulating that
Jewish-owned enterprises must employ Jewish workers exclusively.
...-This attitude conforms both to Zionist needs and to socialist
beliefs. As socialists, Jewish workers are opposed to the idea
of Jews constituting themselves a master class exploiting native
labor....As Zionists, they feel compelled to pursue a policy that
will lead to the maximum absorption of Jews into the Palestin-
ian economy. Otherwise, they cannot hope to constitute a major-
ity in their own homeland. Without a majority, Jewish Palestine
would be only another typical Jewish community in a non-Jewish
country." 81
The material motives here relate, in the first instance, to the economic - تاريخ
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