> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> As someone pointed out recently - where did I see this? ah the
>> combination of the Internet and my aging memory - with apartheid, SA
>> wanted black labor. Israel doesn't want Pal labor - just land. That's a
>> difference.
>
> That's a relatively recent development though. From the early 70s
> until Oslo, between a third and a half (100,000-150,000 workers) of
> the OT Palestinian workforce was employed in Israel. That dropped in
> the 90s a bit but got back up to those absolute numbers in 2000. Of
> course since then the numbers have gone way down, when they've existed
> at all.
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