The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 282)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 282)

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more important to focus on the place of this segment of the labor force
within Israel's employment structure, and how its integration into this
national entity, in turn, affects Israel's economy and place in internation-
al trade. It is argued here that this portion of the labor force leads the
economy and ultimately determines the nature of the relations of production
and the development level of the productive forces. It is this population
group that made possible the shift into high technology production, through
its contributions to Israel Research and Development. Unlike the settler-
Sabra Jewish population, whose contribution focused mainly on nation—build-
ing, this group has its principal effect on the advancement of Israel capi-
talist accumulation.
Like the Western early settlers, the recent Western immigrants form
together the core of Israel's "labor aristocracy". ?+ In recent years, since
the sixties, Jewish immigration into Israel has been almost exclusively from
highly industrialized countries. This is also expected to be true in the
foreseeable future, as projected by Israel Manpower Planning Authority.!?
These immigrants represent that segment of the Israel labor force whose labor
power is the most costly to reproduce, and whose reproduction cost falls not
on Israel but mainly on the country of origin. These Jewish citizens of ad-
vanced countries have acquired their skills and training experience at the
expense of the economies of their origin. They put these skills into use
in the Israeli economy, and hence develop the productive forces of Israel
as well as the U.S. (as this highly skilled labor is employed mainly by
Israel-based American subsidiaries).
It is by virtue of this inflow of European~American immigrants that
it is possible for Israel to have and sustain an international comparative

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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