Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent: Study: W. Bank laborers earn less than 50% of minimum wage
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Title:Strike again?
Name:H50
City: LondonState: UK
In 1987, at the start of the first intifada, Palestinian workers simply decided to stay at home and not work for their occupiers. Israelis were so incensed that Rabin instituted a policy of breaking arms and legs of those Palestinians who refused to work for Israel.

What will the settlers do if Palestinians in the West Bank refused to do the same? Would they annihilate entire villages? Massacre the children of the workers as an object lesson?