The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 39)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 39)

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of the national home expand, so Arab industries will
decline”.@
With the use of the available capital, modern technology and technical
skill as well as the aid and facilities of the mandate governments, Jewish
industry managed to expand and develop. Between the years 1919 and
1939 the capital flow into Palestine was £P 129,000,000 of which £P
95,000,000 was Jewish. ‘| The mandate government facilitated to a large
extent the development of the Jewish industrial sector, and at the same
time very little was done to help the Arab Sector to develop and expand.
For example, regarding economic concessions offered by the mandate
government, only one out of six major concessions made in 1939 and five
in 1942 was given to Arabs, and this was a food importing agency. The
rest, including The Palestine Electric Corporation, Palestine Salt
Company, Palestine Potash and Sulphur Quarries, were exclusively in
Jewish hands. In communication, Jewish interests managed to obtain
concessions from the mandate government for setting up a modern
transportation and road system. @ In the building industry for example,
the mandate government gave a Jewish Contractor the contract to build
three government schools in Jaffa for the Arabs, knowing that the
contractor had proposed to employ exclusively Jewish labour, when there
were many unemployed Arab workers in Jaffa itself.
It was clear within these circumstances that Arab industries could
not compete with that of the Jews. They lacked the flow of capital the
Jews possessed, the technical skill, as well as the facilitation of the British
60 Ibid. p.91
61 0. Gass, R. Nathan and D. Geamer, Palestine, Problem and
Promise. p.263.
62 Khalil Nakhleh and Elia Zureik (eds). The Sociology of the
Palestinians. p.55
63 "The testimony of George Mansur, 16/1/1937", in The
Political Testimonies to The Royal Commission, Damascus
1937. p.301.
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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