The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 559)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 559)
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B. The Non-agricultural Moshav: A High Technology Utopia
Modern industrialization of Israel's rural frontiers is not confined
to the kibbutz. It is also penetrating the co-operative moshav. A pre-
vious chapter gives an account of the non-agricultural rural co-opera-
tives, mainly based on high technology production and populated by recent
Western immigrants with sophisticated training in science and engineering.
Again, in the case of moshav industrial development, regional industrial
development is a high priority, as especially recommended by Raanan Wietz,
Israel's internationally-known regional-rural planner.
We have already discussed the penetration of Israeli investment capi-
tal into Arab villages in Israel and in occupied territories, since the
persisting of the country's economic crisis. We emphasized how the latter
is likely to speed up proletarianization among Arabs and the former among
Jews. Concomitant to this rapid industrialization of the rural frontiers
is the capitalist transformation of Jewish agriculture. The latter has
special bearing on Palestinian proletarianization and carries a peculiar
political significance in the context of Zionist settler-colonialism.
Chapter III provides a detailed descriptive account of the penetration
of citizen and non-citizen Palestinians as cash-croppers, even into the co-
operative and collective Jewish farms in the moshav and the kibbutz, the
strongholds of Labor-Zionism, the articulate symbols of the "Return to the
Soil", and restoration of the "Bond with the Land", the very basis of the
territorial solution to the Jewish question.
It is only in these forms of settlement, where agricultural work is so
politically/ideologically loaded, that capitalist transformation in the post-
1967 period had such dramatic impact on the Israeli society. Capitalist
agricultural production elsewhere in the country was neither new nor carried - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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