The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 206)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 206)
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try with no people". The fact is that proletarian Zionism was already in
theory formulated precisely for Palestine and in light of its actual mater-
ial conditions. In Borochov's formulation of the territorialist solution
it is explicit that "the territory" was Palestine which he also distinguish-
es from "a territory".
It is therefore historically accurate to argue that proletarian Zionism
was intrinsically incapable of being implemented without the expulsion of
the Palestinians. Put differently, the transfer of the great majority of
Palestinians across borders in 1947-48 was not only consistent with, but
also indispensable for, proletarian Zionism. It had finally altered ina
radical way the material conditions prevalent in Palestine in favor of a
sovereign Jewish State. In 1948 the Jewish State "emerged"; yet, not as
organically as it was supposed to. Here the Yishuv ends and a second phase
in the development of Israel social formation begins.
III. Jewish Settlement and Palestinian Proletarianization During the Nation-
Building Phase, 1948-1967
This is the phase of constructing Jewish political "independence" in the
frame of a sovereign nation State.
A fuller establishment of the apparatuses of the State: the army, the
legislative, the executive, etc. It was also the phase of broadening and
strengthening the material "base" (demographic/economic) of the State
"superstructure".
The early years of nation-building were distinguished by mass Jewish im-
migration both from under Nazism and from Arab countries.
Both this massive Jewish immigration as well as the "transfer" of the
vast majority of the indigenous population across what became the boundaries - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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