......They get us to do all their hard work for them,” a Palestinian called Mazan Barakat told me.....
It is noteworthy that the Saudis do not allow Palestinians in the Kingdom to live and work
I hadn't heard about this so I tried to look into it. According to Wikipedia there are 240000 Palestinian "refugees" living in Saudi Arabia as of 2005. I found some other estimates online that as many as 500000 Palestinians live in Saudi Arabia.
But they can't become citizens. Apparently most Arab countries feel that granting citizenship to Palestinians would offer too much recognition to Israel. Palestinians were excepted from a new Saudi law that does provide a path to citizenship for other long-term residents.
There are at the very least 100,000 Palestinians living & working in Saudi Arabia. They have the same restrictions on them as the rest of the Arab non-citizens living there & were only singled out in the aftermath of the Gulf War. It is nothing like the discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon, Jordan, & Egypt. Many of them were allowed to attend the free Saudi universities, which is not allowed. Few other non-citizens will ever be given this privilege. The Saudis who don’t like them do so usually because Palestinians are smarter than the average Saudi & are known for clever scams. The Saudis who like them do so usually out of the sense that Palestinians are “real men” who fight the Jews as opposed to the spoiled, lazy Saudis.
Please don’t give automatic credence to every Palestinian whine.