The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 226)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 226)

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material necessity of the ruling class, especially during a period of cri-
sis when the State apparatus is to serve the interests of the ruling class
against the effects of the tendency of the rate of profit to decline and,
thus, shake up the dominant mode of accumulation. The significance of this
point in the Israeli context gets magnified when compared with the atti-
tudes in previous stages of Israeli formation, in which instances other
than the economic had prevailed.
A further note on the "illegal" use of smuggled Arab labor is its
link with higher ratio of profit and the development of embourgeoisement
trends and values among the users of smuggled labor and in society-at-large,
such as expressed in the following:
"An Israeli journalist interviewed the employer of smuggled
labor:
In the evening the windows of the moshav are illuminated -—-
people eat their supper and watch T.V. In the darkness of
the far part of the yard dozens of fires are lit: the Arab
women are baking the bread.
Q: Why are you employing these Arab women?
A: It is more profitable. They receive lower wages.
Q: Did it occur to you to promise social insurance to
these workers?
A: It is not customary here. We have an agreement with
the contractor, and we pay him, that's it. We want
to be able to expand the farm, to build, to buy cars,
machines, and T.V. sets. Before the Six Day War we
did not enjoy this kind of life. It has been made
possible only through cheap labor." 134
Third, a breakthrough, as has already been noticed, is in the mobili-
zation of female labor from Palestinian-Arab communities, both inside Is-
rael and in occupied territories. Young rural Arab women long enslaved by

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