The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 233)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 233)

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enting orchards for picking and marketing by Arabs contra-
dicts the law and regulations of the settlement authorities
and the settlement movements. Settlers from the Galilee who
oppose the leasing of lands to Bedouins and to Arabs from
Western Galilee defined the phenomenon which is very common,
especially in Mishmar-Hayarden area as the area of Arab colo-
nization and as a most negative phenomenon, bound to harm the
very future of Jewish settlement in Galilee."
Fifth, this brings us directly to the last major breakthrough in the
post-1967 era of proletarianization in Israel -- that is, the large-scale
penetration of Arab labor into the Jewish agricultural sector and the ex-
plicit emergence of the Israeli Rural Labor Market.
This is a breakthrough, not only in the sense of violating the prin-
ciple of self-labor that derives from socialist Zionism through the use of
hired labor, but also in the sense of violating more specifically the prin-
ciples of "Hebrew work" and "Jewish produce", of socialist Zionism by hir-
ing Arab labor, especially in the strongholds of Labor-Zionist ideology,
the kibbutz and the moshav, where this ideology has historically prevailed.
Penetration of Arab labor seems to defy the dominant ideology of the rural
settlers, the historically hegemonic fraction within the Israeli ruling
class, hegemonic as far as political practices are concerned. It is not
surprising, therefore, that Minister of Agriculture Uzan, denouncing this
development, told Jewish farmers that:
"The domination of Jewish agriculture by Arab workers is a
cancer in our body; the situation being created today is
bound to send many Jews back to agricultural work and then
problems of physical work can be solved by mechanization."
[The Minister remarked that] "...there is a danger of Jew-
ish workers abandoning agricultural work, and that in Jew
branches, we have already arrived at an undesirable state
of dependence [on Arab labor]." 148
"The Supreme Council on Settlement Law had decided to

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