The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 502)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 502)

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masses; and to appeal to them ideologically and politically.
In Israel, the "security of the State" has become internalized by the
Israeli masses as an ultimate objective to be fanatically optimized. This
is especially true among the old-timers (Vatikim) and their Israeli genera-
tion (the Sabras). The Labor-Zionist ideology, the dominant ideology of
the ruling class, has been so effectively filtered down through the Hista-
drut, the Labor Party, the left-Zionist Parties, and the kibbutz and co-
operative organizations. For a remarkable expression of how the Israeli-
Jewish toilers have internalized the ideological/political appeal of the
ruling class, recall the heated debate in Moshav Beer Tuvia (Chapter IIT).
By virtue of their relation to the superstructure, including also the Zion-
ist institution of the Yishuv, which is still operative within the modern
State; Jews get access to material and non-material (education, political
participation, bargaining power in the work place) benefits, This is especi-
ally true with respect to the world of consumption of public goods, The rela-
tionship to the ideological/political superstructure affects also, to some
extent, their location in the spatial habitat system.
Metropolitan residents enjoy the greatest share in public consumption:
better quality social services, health, education, recreation, etc. This,
in turn, implies greater subsistence cost, hence higher wages. By virtue
of their affiliation to the ideological/political superstructure, they have
also more access to information, thus more power. They also speak the lan-
guage of the ruling class. Their patterns of consumption, especially of
"cultural goods", are flavored with their relation to the ideological/poli-
tical superstructure. They enjoy more civil freedoms, like geographic
mobility, right to State subsidies, lesser subjection to the repressive ap-
paratuses. The opposite is true with regard to the native Palestinian

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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