The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 548)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 548)
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imperative underlying the emphasis on Jewish, or at least non-Arab, labor
force.
It is in the latter sense that subcontracting to factories located in
Arab villages seems related (although indirectly) to the militarization of
the kibbutz industry; it helps avoid the exposure of military production to
Palestinian-Arabs, because through subcontracting, Arab labor stops commuting
into the kibbutz and continues to productively labor for the kibbutz capital
in the Arab village itself. The transfer of the traditional industries of
the kibbutz into Arab villages does, in effect, release the kibbutznic labor
force for managing the new and more strategic industry. Traditional kibbutz
industries, which are mainly related to agricultural produce and generate
only unskilled, low-paid labor categories, can no longer attract Israeli-
Jewish labor. Maybe in this sense such work is "not appropriate to the
character of the kibbutz" and is therefore subcontracted to factories in
Arab villages.
In this sense, appropriate to the character of the kibbutz is only work
that has potential to attract Jewish labor. Of course, neither agriculture
nor agricultural produce has such potential. Only skilled labor in strate-
gic, i.e., military, industries is likely to redirect Jewish labor mobility
from services into industries. Military production is thus most promising
as far as the hiring of Jewish labor, which conforms with the principle of
self-labor, the ideological basis of the kibbutz, that gives it its peculiar
socialist-Zionist character. Without the subcontracting of unskilled indus-
trial work to factories situated in Arab villages, massive penetration of
Arab labor into the kibbutz would result, as has been happening on a wide
scale since 1967. This way, the kibbutz violates not only its principle of - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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