The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 285)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 285)

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attention to these dichotomies. Later, we will examine whether or not
class segmentations cross these lines.
This disaggregation of the "non-Jews" is inaccurate and, indeed, mis-
leading. The Druzes are an Arab religious sect that has departed from
Islam and existed historically in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The Arab
identity of the Druze religious sect has never been questioned before the
Israeli authorities expropriated their Arab identity in an attempt to iso-
late them and co-opt them as allies, hence making them equal to Jews in
their subjegation to compulsory military service, from which the "Arabs"
were excluded. The isolation of the Druzes as part of a divide-and-rule
strategy has, in the long-run, failed to contain their growing Palestinian-
Arab nationalism, increasingly expressed by Druze resistance poets?° in
Israel and in the emergence of a political movement (Lajnat Al-Mubadarah),
led by Sheikh Farhoud. Their insistence on asserting their Arab identity
is being reflected in the growing number of Druze prisoners jailed for re-
sisting the compulsory military service in the Israel army. The role played
by Kamal Jumblatt, the Druze leader of the Lebanese National (Patriotic)
movement during the Civil War, and even more so, his assassination by the
Phalangists, had a profound effect on the Druze community in Israel and,
indeed, represented a turning point in the assertion of their own Arab
identity in mass public events. 1/
The Bedouins are also Arabs. They maintained a.tribal social structure
and nomadic style of life, subsisting from a mix of gathering and cattle-
raising economy. These nomad Bedouins in Palestine are an integral part of
the indigenous social formation representing a pre-tribute-paying-feudal
mode of production that has historically co-existed with the former as well

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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