The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 208)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 208)
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the Jewish State was the result of military gains. As Efarim Orni correctly
puts it, the 1948 War "brought in its wake a revolutionary reversal in land
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ownership.
The major land policy task became then less one of actual acquisition of
land and more one of establishment and transfer of legal ownership of ac-
quired land to the Jewish State and Zionist organizations .1°/
The system of land law of the State for acquiring legal ownership and,
later on, for acquiring more land is comprehensively presented and carefully
documented by Sabri Jiryis in The Arabs in Israel. 108 It is unnecessary to
try to duplicate his efforts here. Instead, the reader is referred directly
to this comprehensive study.
It is necessary, however, to emphasize that this system of land law by
the newly-born State was not to replace but only to complement the land ac-
quisition system of the pre-State Yishuv phase.
The Jewish National Fund continued to purchase land from the Palestin-
ians who became Israeli citizens upon the annexation of West Galilee and
the Small Triangle in 1949.
The Jewish National Fund (JNF), like all other Zionist institutions of
the Yishuv, remained operative after Statehood and in some cases became
more powerful then before when they became organs of the State. As put by
Chomsky :
"Prior to 1948, the JNF was a private self-help organization of
a national group. It is now an official agency of the State.
Its exclusivist principles have simply been absorbed as one element
of the official policy of Jewish dominance in a Jewish State." 109
The one-way transferability of land from Arab to Jewish use and con-
trol that prevailed in the Yishuv was further reinforced through constant
interventions. These interventions made more intricate the institutional - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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