[boltfromblue]

Quite true, the Palestinians welcomed their liberation from the Turks, but only until they found out what the British really had in store for them, in true Machiavellian, self-interested fashion, a selling out of their land for Rothschild gold.
As to rights of Palis in Israel, they include the 'right' not to own land, the 'right' not to have bank accounts, the 'right' not to receive money, the 'right' not to have their own sacred burial grounds, and a 'right' to have LIMITED representation in the Knesset.

[dennisw]

The Palestinians in Israel have a higher standard of living than do Arabs in Syria, Egypt and Jordan and any Arab nation without oil wealth. Please explain this since you consider them so oppressed. And how about the Pallies on the West Bank who live like crap despite a lot of self rule. How come Israeli Arabs also live better than them?

And Israeli Arabs most definitely have the vote and put Ehud Barak into office instead of Netanyahu a few years back. They gave Barak the margin of victory. They have a bunch of loudmouth representatives in the Knesset too. Israel is the most democratic nation in the MidEast.