POLI 347 Chapter TAMARI: POLI 347 Chapter : Tamari -What the Uprising Means.
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1989 what the uprising means. in: intifada: the palestinian uprising. Defence minister dayan strategized that israeli rule should be felt not seen, and so. Israel started to tightly control palestinian security and resources, whilst aiming for minimal personal encounters with palestinians. Israel started to establish political hegemony" (128), supported by coercive force and a pervasive intelligence network" (128). They did this by integrating occupied territories through infrastructure, labour and markets: physical infrastructure. Israel restructured west bank"s transport and communications network to link them to israel. Jewish settlements were far better connected than arab settlements, and jewish settlers could move freely: arabs were forced to depend on israeli water and electricity (israeli water company mekorot), labour. In the early 1970s, israel started hiring palestinian workers in undesirable jobs in construction, services, agriculture, and industrial sector, at the bottom of the occupation pyramid" (128): this kept arabs employed in order to lower social pressures: