Everyday Palestinian life is saturated with Israeli economic control.

Evidence

A Palestinian worker writes of his daily life: … At 7:30 a.m. you wake up, you want to take a shower, but you have to buy water from Mekorot, Israel’s water company that has taken control of 80 percent of the West Bank’s water resources. At 8:30 a.m., get in the car to go to work…. In the West Bank, the Israeli army has a network of 97 fixed checkpoints and hundreds of “flying” checkpoints, which appear and disappear without warning. Long queues, document checks, often closures—collective or to individuals—without explanation. Every Palestinian worker must leave home well in advance. On the lunch break, to buy a sandwich or go shopping, only the Israeli shekel is used, as we have never had a Palestinian currency. Maybe you have to buy gasoline, only from Israeli operators, who have total control of energy resources. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 307

Categorization

• SHARE: The Mekorot water-control figure (80% of West Bank water) and the 97 fixed checkpoint detail are shareable concrete facts.
• FICTION: The first-person worker’s diary format — a day narrated through successive economic dependencies — is a template for immersive narrative.
• XREF: connects to: Israeli military orders after 1967 systematically deindustrialized the Palestinian economy. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 315; Israeli occupation from 1967 seized monetary and fiscal control over Palestine — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 314; De-agrarianization turned self-employed Palestinians into wage workers in Israel, deepening dependency — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 326

Broader Connections

• Israeli occupation from 1967 seized monetary and fiscal control over Palestine #expands (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 314
• De-agrarianization turned self-employed Palestinians into wage workers in Israel, deepening dependency #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 326