The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 288)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 288)
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this is their political status, a relation of political subordination
which is an important determinant of class location, as will be demonstra-
ted in the next chapter. In describing the employment structure, however,
we refer to all this hetergeneous non-Jewish labor force as “citizen
Palestinian-Arabs", i.e., Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. We use
"Jews" and "non-Jews" categories mainly when we need to compare the pheno-
menon over time, using previous studies and tables that talk in those terms.
We are reluctant to use even the more liberal "Israeli-Arabs" (as distin-
guished from Israeli-Jews) simply because of its ahistorical connotation.
The "Israeli-Arabs" are historically Palestinians, and their "Israeli"
being is a function not of their choice, but rather an ahistorical manager-
ial imposition by the architects of the Zionist project in Palestine. The
systematic denial of their Palestinian identity and the imposition on them
of a “non-Jewish-Israeli" identity derives, again, from the settler-colo-
nial and non-secular character of Israel.
In this position, the Palestinian citizens of Israel are not unlike the
native American Indians, made into a vulnerable minority in their own home-
land, except for the fact that the Palestinians had already developed a
national consciousness and had become a national entity prior to the estab-
lishment of the Zionist regime, while the American Indians were still a
tribal society when the European settlers colonized their homeland. Also,
the great majority of the native Palestinian population was expelled and
made refugees in the neighboring Arab countries in order to render the na-
tional entity and make possible the creation of an alien one in its place.
In the aftermath of the 1967 War and its large territorial expansion,
a large segment of the Palestinians expelled in 1948 were forcefully inte-
grated into Israel's labor force under military occupation, with neither - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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