The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 43)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 43)

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It was a well known fact to the Mandate authorities in Palestine that |
Jewish immigration and land sales were the major causes of Arab
unemployment, but nothing was done to stop this or to solve the problem 7
of unemployment among the Arab workers, in spite of the warnings
repeated in the various Commission’s reports. Sir Hope Simpson
concluded in his Report:
“Arab unemployment is serious and widespread. It is
wrong that a Jew from Poland or Liuthuania or Yemen
should be admitted to fill an existing vacancy, while in
Palestine there are already workmen capable of filling that
vacancy who are unable to find employment"
The Jewish economic sector within the Palestine economy had started
and developed as an exclusive Jewish system with its own funds,
industries and agriculture, as well as the skilled work force of
immigrants. The Jewish sector came to the country as a well developed
capitalist economy in direct competition with the pre-capitalist Arab
economy, which lacked the capital, the machinery and the skill to
continue developing under these circumstances.
The British mandate governments were not a mere spectator of this
competition between the two sectors of the Palestinian economy. On the
one hand, the Mandate Governments were facilitating the progress of
the "national home" as discussed above, while on the other hand they
were also minding Britain’s own interests as a colonial power in the
country, not only politically but economically as well. Although Britain as
a mandate power was restricted internationally from establishing any
special privileges for itself, it nonetheless had a typical system of colonial
finance with revenues drawn from indirect taxes, especially the external
tariff. The Mandate power had also a very high proportion of the
government expenditure on security and finance. * Palestine like the
79 Sir John Hope Simpson. Report on Immigration. p.53
80 Roger Owen (ed.), Studies in the Economic and Social
History of Palestine. p.4
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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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Sonia Nimr

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