Fionn, the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians "unfortunate enough to have lived in Israel in the past 50 years" have enjoyed citizenship, social benefits, pensions, education, health funds and modern medicine, housing, electricity, freedom of the press ,political parties, religious freedom, democracy etc etc etc. It has not been easy for them to obtain all the rights due to them, and all the equality due to them, but they are getting there. I think that you must be referring to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians NOT fortunate enough to have lived in Israel- those crowded into refugee camps in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in the surrounding Arab countries. They are the people who are deprived and opressed- both by their Palestinian leaders, their Arab hosts, aswell as by the presence of Israeli troops and settlers. Jack The Lad