Revolver
21st July 2014, 20:26
The coverage of the Israeli assault on Palestinians is bereft of class analysis. For those who are interested, however, the International Socialist Review has an interesting 2002 reprint of an article that was first published in 1969, "The Class Character of Israeli Society (http://isreview.org/issues/23/class_character_israel.shtml)." In addition, "WeAreMany.org" also has a recent podcast by the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions activist Wael Elasady, "The Arab Working Class and Palestinian Liberation (http://wearemany.org/a/2014/06/arab-working-class-and-palestinian-liberation)." Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, also has a series of articles on various economic policy matters (http://al-shabaka.org/policy-brief/economic-issues). The most interesting that I have read so far is one from last January, titled "The Palestinian Capitalists That Have Gone Too Far (http://al-shabaka.org/policy-brief/economic-issues/palestinian-capitalists-have-gone-too-far)," is about the more complicit sectors of the Palestinian economy. Similarly, a 2013 Al Jazeera report analyzes the way in which the international donor community has collaborated with the Palestinian Authority to facilitate lending (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/201391275625391674.html) in the occupied territories. The political nature of this lending regime is quite clear, since donors suspended aid the last time the prospect of a unity government was on the table.