The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 565)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 565)
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is conducive to a high rate of profit.
With the Likud political/economic program, local Israeli capital is
given the "green light" to cross the "Green Line". One of the most re-
cent studies that document the increasing investment in, and industrializa-
tion of, the occupied territories is a 1977 Carnegie Report by Brian Van
Arkadie}8
This process is likely to increase the proletarianization of Pales-
tinians by Israeli capital. This phenomenon has not only recently emerged,
but only recently it became more of a rule than an exception. Since the
earlier years of occupation, the West Bank has had industrial workers and
agricultural cash-croppers in enterprises owned by members of the Israeli
national bourgeoisie or jointly with Palestinian feudal landlords, who are
thus merging into the bourgeoisie itself. The actual size of wage earners
employed in a proletariat capacity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is un-
known. According to Jamil Hilal, in 1973 there were 59,700 wage workers
working in the territories, compared to 70,800 in 19692? aithough Hilal re-
fers to these as proletariat simply because they are wage earners, it is
still unclear to us how many of them are actually involved in productive,
manual, non-supervisory labor, and therefore objectively belong to prole-
tariat locations.
The size of Palestinian proletariat locally employed in the occupied
territories and Arab villages in Israel is definitely expected to grow in
response to the increasing penetration of Israeli investment capital into
the traditional Palestinian community.
The localization of Palestinian proletarianization (through the mobil-
ity of Israeli-Jewish capital into the very site of self-reproduction of
566 - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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