British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 729

CHAPTER XVI.

These factors give a lack of balance to the social economy of Palestine as a whole. The diastasis in the organism is emphasized by the fact that normally Jews employ Jews and Arabs employ Arabs. The serious problem of unemployment recorded befo.re the war would appear, where the Palestinian Arab was concerned, to be due less directly to Jewish competition than to the form of Arab economy with agriculture predominant.

208. The improvement in the conditions of life of the. Palestinian Arabs traced in this note is attributable to the administration of Palestine in accordance with the terms of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate. In other words, it is attributable to Government measures, to Jewish enterprise and to Arab enterprise. To attempt to evaluate the respective shares of each would be invidious even if it were not impracticable. Except in conjunction with both of the others the contribution of none would have generated the driving force for social advancement.

Table 28.

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBU1'IONS IN CASH BY ARAB VILLAGERS FOR VILLAGE WORKS AND SOCIAL SERVICES DURING THE YEARS 1941-1945. *

Contributions in cash

Calendar year

I Fo* other I

For. village works Total

education and services

Actual expenditure

£P. £P. £P.--£P. £P. £P.
1941 15,661 2,624 18,286 9,089 817 9,906
1942 31,186 16,441 47,577 19,780 9,084 28,864
1943 54,797 32,164 86,961 29,286 10,317 39,603
1944 187,900 92,055 229,955 82,860 40,203 122,563
1945 187,098 101,366 288,46*1 124,531 41,617 166,148
Totals 1426,592 244.650 671,242 265,046 102,098 967,084
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* Paragraph 189 refers.

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