The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 197)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 197)
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bi-nationalism with the elimination of the political dimension is irrelevant,
but also that it was not practiced in fact. According to the same source:
"The Histadrut advocates common unions among Government employees,
particularly the railway and telegraph workers where the cultural
level between the Arab and Jewish groups is not very different
and where common wage levels may be achieved without reducing the
standard of the Jewish worker." 93 (emphasis added)
Common unions were thus advocated when they served the interest of Jewish
labor, when Oriental Jews were the ones involved, and when cost was not in-
flicted on the Histadrut. In the case of British Mandatory Government em-
ployees, it was, of course, in the interest of Jewish workers to demand
higher wages for Arab labor, so that Arab labor ceases to be more competi-
tive and loses the potential of displacing Jewish labor. Furthermore, wage
increase for Arab workers in this case does not come from Zionist funds and,
therefore, is not at the expense of the welfare of Jewish labor.
Reducing its competitiveness was not the only real rationale for organ-
izing Arab labor. One cannot disregard the elements of co-optation and
legitimization involved in this action. The Histadrut was urged to provide
an alternative to the militant Arab labor movement emerging in Haifa, Jaffa,
Jerusalem, Nazareth, Migdal and Nablus in response to Zionist conquest of
land and labor policies. The co-optation element is very clear in the
methods the Histadrut employed for this pursuit. In Abbu Khushi's words:
'',..a nucleus of Arab workers must be formed to be prepared for
the task of spreading propaganda among the mass of Arab workers.
...They must be made to understand that a strike is to be
used as a last resort...and that a strike, if inevitable, must
be the consummation of long and careful preparations. A great
deal of time will have to be devoted to forging a solid body
of workers ready for sacrifices and risks....The medical service
rendered the Arabs by the Kupat Holim [the public health care
system, over which the Histadrut exercise full monopoly] is im-
portant both as a means of attracting them to the Histadrut and
as an educational force. The poor Arab, whose medical needs are
entirely unprovided for, is grateful in the extreme for medical - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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