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In West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs Are Double-Edged Sword
[NYT] MISHOR ADUMIM INDUSTRIAL ZONE, West Bank -- The personal conflict that thousands of Palestinians face working for Israeli companies in the occupied West Bank is particularly stark for Hassan Jalaita, who for 18 years has repaired Israeli Army jeeps at the Zarfati garage here.
Hassan would rather work shorter hours, or not work at all. He longs to write poetry or start his own business. For now however, he must settle for bitching, moaning, and biting the hand that feeds him.
Those are the very same jeeps that confront Mr. Jalaita at the checkpoint he crosses each morning. The same ones that sweep through villages where his friends and relatives live. But those jeeps also help pay his $1,471 monthly salary at Zarfati, more than triple the minimum wage in Palestinian areas of the West Bank, where a 19 percent unemployment rate here and lack of labor laws make finding a decent job difficult.
19 percent unemployment, same as here in the States.
"I feel like I'm not a human being -- we are serving the occupation," said Mr. Jalaita, 47, a father of five, two of them university students. "I am forced to work here because I have a house, I have a family.
House, family, university students... And not a word about how he is donating his excess income and offspring to the cause. Methinks you doth protest too much, sirrah.
Tomorrow, if there is another place to work, if there is work in Palestine, I will do it."
Obligatory map found in article.
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=385408