The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 479)

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doubled between 1971 and 1973 and reached over one-third billion in
1974. It is not surprising, therefore, that the occupied territories
became the largest market for Israeli goods in 1973, if we exclude
Israeli exports of polished diamonds....The occupied territories
became the largest market for Israeli goods, as the following table
indicates:
Value of Israeli Exports to Major Markets in 1973 (million dollars)
U.S.A. 267 .0
(excluding polished diamonds) 132.1
Britain 140.8
(excluding polished diamonds) 121.4
West Germany 137.6
(excluding polished diamonds) 105.6
West Bank and Gaza Strip 189.0
That is, in 1973 Israel exported to the West Bank and Gaza Strip a
quarter of all its exports for that year, excluding polished diamonds.
The West Bank and Gaza imported in 1973 and 1974 90 percent of the
value of their total imports from Israel. While Israeli imports
from both in 1973 did not exceed 2.3 percent of total Israeli im-
ports. See Jamil Hilal, The Palestinians of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip: Social and Economic Conditions under Israeli Occupation
(P.L.0O. Department of Information and National Guidance--Studies and
Publication Section, May, 1976), pp. 9-10.
These skilled and unskilled productive labor categories relate to
workers in industry: mining, building, transport and other workers.
In assessing under/over representation factors, we divided the pro-
portion of each particular group that falls into a particular labor
category by the proportionate size of that group in the labor force
(not in the population-at-large) minus one.
In 1972, for example, total labor force employed in Israel, including
workers from occupied territories, reached 1,099,800 persons. Of
these, 34 percent were Europe-America immigrants, 29 percent (Orien-
tal) Asia-Africa immigrants, 23 percent born-in-Israel Sabras, 9 per-
cent citizen Palestinians, and 5 percent non-citizen Palestinians
from occupied territories. All Palestinian workers constituted 14
percent of Israel's labor force.
I. Oweiss, The Israeli Economy: A War Economy, op.cit., p. 43.

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