{"id":6865,"date":"2018-03-12T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adva.org\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2020-12-29T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:25:13","slug":"debt-and-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adva.org\/en\/debt-and-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Occupation Dictates Israeli Economic Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">The hasty and rather under-reported deliberations on Israel\u2019s 2019 state budget, approved by the Knesset on Thursday, present us with an opportunity to raise an important question: should the country stick to\u00a0the policy of reducing public expenditures, especially social expenditures, relative to the rate of economic growth?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">This policy is well reflected in fiscal formulas, but always aimed at the reduction of budget deficits and at capping expenditures. The reduction of the deficit, for its part, facilitates the reduction of the national debt, which, in turn, is perceived in the international financial markets as a principal indicator of a country\u2019s financial stability.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">In the case of Israel, such stability is sorely needed, given the high political and military instability, represented most clearly in Palestinian resistance to the ongoing Israeli occupation. That instability is one of the main factors pushing successive Israeli administrations to adopt a highly cautious and conservative fiscal policy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">Put differently, Israel is willing to continue with the occupation even at the price of very low social expenditures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">Should we conclude that the only way to increase social expenditures is to increase the fiscal deficit and allow the national debt to grow? Of course not: one obvious way of doing this would be to raise direct taxes, which were cut drastically during the Second Intifada, back in 2003-2004, primarily to the benefit of high-income Israelis. Those cuts themselves were connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">A second way of increasing social expenditures would be to actively strive for an agreed political settlement with the Palestinians, so as to start moving toward political and economic stability.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">***<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\">Israel\u2019s social expenditure as a percent of GDP last year was one of the lowest amongst members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of the world\u2019s most developed nations. Only Ireland is to be found below us. Furthermore, Israel ranks at the bottom or near bottom on social security expenditures and public investments in the economy. According to the Bank of Israel, those rankings testify to the difficulty the government faces when it comes to instituting policy measures aimed at ensuring long-term economic growth. In other words, low social expenditures weaken the ability of the state to advance sustainable development of\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0parts and sectors of Israeli society.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/staticv3.972mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/03\/social-expenditure-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Israel's social expenditure as a percent of GDP last year was one of the lowest amongst members of the OECD. According to the Bank of Israel, these numbers testify to the difficulty the government faces when it comes to instituting policy measures aimed at ensuring long-term economic growth.\" width=\"1492\" height=\"1046\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is the reason for Israel\u2019s low social expenditure?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Israel, the most frequently heard answer is the neoliberal ideology of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who from 2003-2004 also served as finance minister.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is true that neoliberalism certainly plays a role, most obviously in the rhetoric that accompanied the long-term reduction of budget deficits and expenditure capping. But there is much more to it: the economy\u2019s main financial problem is political-military instability. \u201cNormal\u201d countries face the ups and downs of \u201cnormal\u201d business cycles. \u201cAbnormal\u201d countries face, in addition to those business cycles, political and military shocks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel is a good example of such \u201cabnormality.\u201d While the age of \u201cbig\u201d Middle East wars ended with the signing of the peace agreement with Egypt, new, low-intensity \u201crounds\u201d of violent confrontations with the Palestinians still occur: two intifadas, four or five major conflicts in the Gaza Strip, and countless ongoing incidents. Each one of these \u201crounds\u201d brings with it economic shocks. The Second Intifada, which coincided with the global dot-com crisis, led to two years of GDP contraction and three years of per capita GDP contraction. An IDF strategic evaluation defined the Palestinian conflict as the \u201cmost explosive\u201d of Israel\u2019s fronts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instability also affects Israel\u2019s international credit rating, which, in turn, is highly influenced by the country\u2019s debt to GDP ratio: the higher the ratio, the lower the rating. Political-military instability lowers the rating further, since it constitutes a clear threat to the country\u2019s ability to repay its debt. Beyond that, a low credit rating raises the price (interest) a country has to pay on loans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe dictatorship of credit rating\u201d obligates countries to do everything they can to improve their credit rating. The main way to do this is by lowering the fiscal deficit. In the Israeli case, reduction of budget deficits is intertwined with capping expenditures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\u2019s Finance Ministry is well aware of all of this, and thus does everything in its powers to lower the country\u2019s debt to GDP ratio. Back in 2004, as Israel\u2019s debt began to decline after a three year rise \u2014 due to the fiscal and financial crisis brought about by the Second Intifada \u2014 the ministry noted with satisfaction that international credit rating agencies were impressed by the improvement in the geo-political situation \u201cfollowing Yasser Arafat\u2019s death, the election of Abu Mazen to the post of head of the Palestinian Authority in democratic elections and the rising hopes following the Sharm a-Sheikh conference and the planned disengagement from the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Finance Ministry mentioned one additional cause for the improvement of Israel\u2019s credit rating: \u201cA well formulated economic agenda pursued by the administration.\u201d This statement was not elaborated on further; one possibility is that it referred to the neoliberal nature of the various steps \u2014 mostly budget cuts \u2014 taken to put Israel\u2019s finances in order during the intifada. The Reaganite\/Thacherite neoliberal agenda arrived in Israel in 1985 in the context of an emergency stabilization plan, following the high inflation caused mainly by the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Since then, neoliberal thinking has guided the policies of every Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Up to the Second Intifada, however, none had taken such drastic steps as those enacted by the Sharon government, in which Netanyahu served as finance minister. Netanyahu, the most gifted rhetorician of that doctrine, spoke of \u201cthe skinny guy,\u201d meaning the business community, having to carry the burden of \u201cthe fat guy\u201d \u2014 the public sector.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no way or justification for disentangling the two main explanations for the policy of fiscal austerity and lowering the debt to GDP ratio. The main cause of instability is Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. And the way Israel has chosen to deal with that instability is through neoliberal policies of fiscal austerity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there an alternative to political-military instability? Of course there is: a Israeli-Palestinian political settlement. Obviously, this does not depend solely on Israel, but Israel presently holds most of the cards.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there a non-neoliberal way to deal with the instability? Of course there is. The Sharon government could have chosen\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0to cut direct taxes, which mainly benefitted the upper-middle and upper class. Interestingly, those cuts were at least in part motivated by the instability brought about by the intifada, as there was fear that it might instigate a wave of \u201crelocation\u201d to Silicon Valley, thus depleting the ranks of the Start-Up Nation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bottom line is that insufficient public funding of Israel\u2019s social services is forcing families to make out-of-pocket payments for services they were supposed to receive free of charge. And given that some pockets are bigger than others, government under-funding is deepening even more the already steep inequality in Israel, which ranks among the steepest in the West.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This raises a number of questions. Should Israel go on decreasing its debt to GDP ratio, which at present is below the 60 percent benchmark set by the European Union? Isn\u2019t the socio-economic price Israel pays for the continuing occupation too high? Are we willing to go on denying the Palestinians statehood at the price of low investment in health, education, and welfare?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>\/\/\u00a0The English version of this article was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/972mag.com\/how-the-occupation-dictates-israeli-economic-policy\/133871\/\">+972 Magazine<\/a>, March 18, 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7345\" src=\"http:\/\/adva.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eu-Emblem-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adva.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eu-Emblem-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/adva.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eu-Emblem-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/adva.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eu-Emblem-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/adva.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eu-Emblem.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union.<br \/>\nIts contents are the sole responsibility of the Adva Center and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longer military rule over millions of Palestinians persists, the less Israel will invest in education, health, and welfare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,10],"tags":[811],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-price-of-occupation","category-budget-and-economy","tag-price-of-occupation","author-105","post-type-opinion","category-148","category-10"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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