Posted on 02/26/2015 4:57:17 PM PST by SJackson
JNS.org – A European Union-funded survey conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) between October and December of 2014 shows that Palestinians working in Israeli-controlled territory earn more than double the wages of Palestinians working in Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled areas of the West Bank.
In Israeli-controlled areas, the average daily wage for Palestinians was 194.2 shekels, while in PA-controlled areas the the average daily wage was only 91.4 shekels. Meanwhile, the average wage in Hamas-controlled Gaza was 66.1 shekels a day.
Last September, the PA’s official daily newspaper went as far congratulating Israeli employers for their positive gestures toward Palestinian employees, Palestinian Media Watch reported.
“Whenever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to quit their jobs with their Palestinian employers—for reasons having to do with salaries and other rights,” the PA’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper stated on Sept. 21, 2014.
“The [Israeli] work conditions are very good, and include transportation, medical insurance and pensions. These things do not exist with Palestinian employers,” the newspaper added.
About 105,200 Palestinians were employed by Israelis by the end of 2014. Among that group, 20,200 are working beyond the 1949 armistice line (Green Line). About a quarter (26.5 percent) of Palestinians in the workforce were unemployed at that time.
Read the full survey here.
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Just for reference, here ... Israel has 20% of their population “inside Israel” [not in the territories, which is not part of Israel proper] as Muslim. And most of them are full citizens of Israel, with all the legal rights of any other citizen.
Don’t you understand? The PA and Ghaza are trying to undercut Israeli prices on wages. If we pay even less, we’ll drive them out of business! We invented logic, and therefore, I declare that this makes perfect sense! The less we pay our workers, the more the Zionist occupiers must pay to keep up with us, until they spark another Intiada! And then we’ll dance around with their heads impaled on pikes, and pay even lower wages!
Ummm ... they’re getting paid less because they’re in a rat-infested hellhole of a third-world society ... LOL ... just like Chinese workers get paid less in China doncha know ... :-) ...
oh noooes! This must anger te BDS bigots
“He’s the neighborhood bully....”
Clearly apartheid at work.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Israel is who made it into a third-world hell hole by occupyin’ it. Why, until 1967, it was paradise on earth, with well water and toilets right next to each other, and you didn’t even have to flush the toilets.
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