NEO-LIBERALISM & THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE

2011 Social movement

rise of fascism
neo-liberalism
Israeli in the representation of the Israeli in the West as a capitalist state
Centrality of the movement
o Israeli colonial project in Palestine shaped the society in Israel
Unify
Develop
Labour movement is wiped off
o Kibut lovely socialist farm, ethnically pure farm
o Istadghut incredible labour organisation & develop the industry
Solar bone ( largest solar panel company in the middle east)
Control the movement of plaestinian worker
Further segregate the Palestinians
Building up the new industry in the country
Israel settlement divides in total the jewish and Palestinians
o Demand of labour movement for full segregation
o Nakbah movement : logical outcome for full jewish economy
Neoliberal
o Relative material interest in leveraging the jewish population
o Highly centralized funding from the West
o Full separation of the true population
Undermine :
o Separation ethnic of two populations
o Change in the base of colonisation
Kibut & istadghut to religious settlers in 1969
Shook hands with religious leaders
o 1967 : signals the economic transformation more fundamentally
large scale military industry
incredibly centralized state to highly privatised state
o ownership of economy to only small group of people
o large integration of Israeli economy integrated into the world market
2000 110 israeli companies listed in NYSE
facilitating the state with international capital in terms of its
mobilization
outcome of neo-liberal reform :
o distant itself from state elite
o growing inequality between jewish
o integration of Israeli in the world market
Israeli labour movement??
The Israeli welfare state
o Cheap housing
o Healthcare
o Road
o Schools
but need to convinced the jewish to live in Israeli
 eastern jewish replace the Palestinian cheap labour
play role in guarding the borders
impoverishment of society by neo-liberal process
Russians start disappearing in the ashkanazi
elites of nazi remain in power
people are protesting by middle class who could not afford basic necessities
-strike by middle class income earners

Speaker 2
Emphasis the role of the market in satisfying needs
o Put upfront in economic policy & strategy
Arise in financial market
See neo-liberalism more than an economic policy but rather
o Transformation of society
o Weakening the social movement of labour to resist
Making it much more difficult in projects
(I) Changes in the way Israeli economy affected the nature in political economy in
west bank and gaza(occupied territory)
De-development
The way Palestinian in this area get cheap labour
Palestinians working in the occupied territory can go to Israel very
easily(free movement)
o Palestinian boom
o OSLO process 1990s we live with today, the relationship
began to change. Palestinian labour began under attack
o Much more migrant labour from East Asia and former
Soviet/East European state
o Exports and imports were controlled by Israel
o Goods flows outside and the money were put into Israeli
farmers
o Economic dependency tight to Israeli economic needs
o Israeli capitalism & Palestinian elites barricade behind the
development
o High inflation rate in Israel benefit Israel
o Neoliberalism prioritization in the market & encourage
private sector to grow
Everyone will benefit
o Palestinian Reform & Development Plan 2007 to 2010
Plan was drafted by institution financial (World Bank)
Became the guiding framework since that time
Fiscal reform reduce social spending
Reduce people in public sector
Push more private sector to encourage more
investment
Establish industrial zone within/close
checkpoint to get more Palestinian cheap
labours inside the Palestinian territory
o Real estate
o Rapid rise in debts
o Household debt levels increase dramatically
 o Even businesses
o Neoliberalism creates greater financial markets
o Create debts
o Credit cards
o Rising poverty levels & inequality levels
(II) Neo-liberalism in West Bank & Gaza(occupied territory)
(III) Effects in terms of political
o Israel still control who, what and when to produce
o Inequality reflecting geography
o Ramallah center and therefore reflecting the inequality
o PA has facilitated the elitists
Real estate development
Confiscation of the land
i.Neo-liberalisation of economy has led to neo-liberalisation of politics in Palestine
a. Become very difficult to imagine the political struggle
b. The structure is extremely fragile : open to destabilisation
ii. undermine the position of PA in the eyes of Palestinian population
iii.palestinian elites are part of the problem along with Zionism and settler colonialism
iv.tackling fair and square inequality and neo-liberalism

Israel collection of tax : collect on behalf of the authority and distribute that to the PA
Social corporation business : the very large elits are only interested in making money
Not an effective strategy for resistance
White-washing of businesses
uprising due to politics & economic issues
2011 Arab Uprising : connected to the effects of neo-liberalism
PIDP & subsequent national development plan :
Gives political and economic implication