The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 231)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 231)
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the fields from the Rosh-Pina Metula Road up to the Jordan
area, which was formerly Lake Khula. The tents are made
of unstitched sacks sewn together to form large sheets,
pieces of material from blankets or bed covers, and long
strips of coarse black material made of goat's wool and
reed mats. In the tents live the tillers, most of them
inhabitants of Zakhnin* village -- halfway between Safed
and Acne. In each tent lives an Arab family -- seven,
ten and even up to twelve members. . .The Shakur family,
one of these squatters from Zakhnin village, spends about
three months a year in the field of a farmer from Ysud-
HaMaalee. The farmer gives them land, water, and tobacco
and sows watermelons, and the harvest is divided between
Shakur and the farmer. (They play, indeed, the traditional
role of share-croppers or tenant farmers.)
At the end of the tobacco and watermelon season, the tents
are taken down and the people of Zakhnin take on other
trades. The shakur family returns home, north of the Beit-
Netaja Valley in central Galilee. There in the fertile
valley, the family has fifteen dumams on which it grows
vegetables. The children attend school, Atalla and the
girls work in the field and earn their living well out of
the good soil. . .In the fields of the Settlement about
forty families from Zakhnin and a few families from other
villages are scattered. Most of the land in Ysud-HaMaalee
is tilled by Arabs, and even the work of thinning and
picking in the plantations, which are mechanically culti-
vated by the farmers, is almost totally done by Arabs.
. - eWhen a tractor passes outside, Atalla says: "Those
are Jews.'' Arabs have no tractors here. They are the
manual workers, backs bent holding tools. . .
Binjamin (the employer):. . .Today we water the soil auto-
matically, and only the thinning and picking requires many
hands. There are only Arabs for such work. Once we had
Jewish workers from Hazur (probably inhabited by Oriental
Jews). So many workers came from Hazur that not everyone
got work.
David (the son):. . .Today people from Hazur do not want
to work in agriculture.
Binjamin:. . .Unfortunately, today there are only Arab
workers. In neighboring kibbutzim, too, everything is
done by Arab labor.
*Zakhnin -- one of the Arab villages of Galilee that suffered most from
land expropriation and was most active in, and later most injured by, the
aftermath of the internationally publicized Land-Day General-Strike on
March 30, 1976. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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