Study On The Palestinian Arab Economy After The First World War

During the past half century, the issues of the Middle East have been focused on vigorously, especially the issue of Palestine-Israel, of which the investigation into Israel has been done fully in 1990's,but into the Palestine much less, especially into the Palestinian economy. In fact it was the weakness of the Palestinian economy that made Palestine backward step by step in the Palestine-Israel peace process, and made it quite difficult to found the state of Palestine. In view of the approximate vacancy of the Palestinian study, I take Study on Palestinian Arab Economy after the First World War as my paper for the doctoral degree in order to introduce a new view into a basic anatomy of the twist hardships and dangers of the Nation Liberation of Palestine through investigating into the history of this period.Armed with the principles of integrity, inter-affiliation, order characteristic, dynamic systems analysis and quantification, under the guidance of the systems theory of Marxist social science methodology, having carefully hackled the complex foreign materials relevant, this thesis is meant to analyse objectively the growth of the Palestinian Arab economy after the First World War along the following four stages.First, the economic growth of the Palestinian Arab society during the period of the British Mandate. Due to belong to the growing time of the pre-capitalist, the economy of the. Palestinian Arab society was not only exploited by the British authority and weakened by its discriminatory policies, but struck with the newly-born economy of the Jewish society. Furthermore, with its own low production efficiency, the pressure of population, the decrease and breaking to pieces of land area, the demos of Palestine were deeply put into debt, which laid Palestine inferior in the coming Palestine-Israel relation. Second, the Palestinian economy in the years of 1948-1967. Due to the 1948 Middle East War, Palestinian Arab lost most of their land, of which the only remains were the West Bank of Jordan River, dominated by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip, ruled by Egypt. With stop of the traditional economic growth, and without support of Jordan and Egypt governments, the economy in the above mentioned two divisions walked haltingly in the more than ten years. Third, the Palestinian economy in the occupied period. The West Bank and Gaza Strip were occupied by Israel in 1967, which caused the economy in two divisions and near smashed or weakened. Under the direction of Israel-oriented integration policy, the economic tie between Palestine and Israel was reestablished unequally with occupied for twenty years more. The Occupied Territories was governed strictly by Israel, and the production, market and employment in the occupied territories lost their own independence and self-determination completely. Fourth, the Palestinian economy in Oslo period. The subscription of Oslo Accord in 1993 led the economyof Palestine into a new stage. The international community provided the self-rule territories of Palestine with great economic aid, and the Palestinian Authority made a long-term plan for rejuvenating economy which aimed at encouraging export, broadening investment, setting up employment developing the modem economy. With much endeavor from relevant sides, the reestablishment of Palestinian economy came into dawn. But meanwhile Israel began to close the West Bank and Gaza Strip off, which made the development of Palestinian economy more difficult, capital severely short production slow, unemployment high and financial deficit, more and more Palestinian got into economic predicament, which finally caused the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, as a symbol of Palestinian disgruntle for the Oslo peace progress.Having investigated into the four stages of the Palestinian economic growth, we can summary up the following features of it. First, since century 16, Palestine had been suffering from the control of foreign force, and no political lending power which represented the interest of local demos was able to lead...