It pales in comparison to life under occupation of a foreign force.
Which has been the Jews lot in Palestine for the last 2,000 years, and most of that has been under Palestinian arab muslim occupation.
Read a little Palestinian history before you embarrass yourself even more, Phoenall:
History of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jewish community of Palestine has done well for this entire time until Zionism. They very gradually converted to Christianity and then Islam, that is all.
Historically, a geographic nation is a self-ruling entity on an identifiable territory with recognized capital seat of governance, with its own independent treasury/coinage. That does not define "Palestine"
Arafat was the individual who coined the term "Palestine" as a modern "national" identity in the late 1960's and its people (excluding the Jews) as "Palestinians." It plays on the modern recognition that the modern State of Israel is the new aberration built on the conquered "nation" of Palestine, displacing its "rightful inhabitants."
There was no "nation" of Palestine, but the term was readily recognizeable as having preceding "Israel" as part of the Bristish Mandate, of the Syria-Palestine vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, and back throught the centuries to the Roman destruction of Judea and their intent to erase the nation, remaining it Palaestina for the Philistines who once possessed part of the ancient land.
Of historical (and anthropological note), is that the Philistines (the "Sea Peoples") never settled Judea, they settled only the southwestern coast; nor were they of the Semetic tribes from which the Jews, Arabs, Hittites etc. descend. They were from Crete and Macednonia and the Aegean.
Furthermore, they never were a "nation." Like their Aegean relatives, they formed "city-states"--the key centers being what is now Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gaza.
Thus, the modern Palestinians are not descended from the Philistines--but are brethren to the Jews.
Philistia never exissted as a nation, nor did the ancient city-states contain more than a small coastal margin of what is now modern day Israel and the Gaza strip.
While it is easy to strip modern myth from historical fact. it changes nothing.
The self-named modern Palestinians also have valid ties to the shared holy land (just as Jewish refugees do to the many former lost sites of Arab Jewry throughout the MIddle East and North Africa). No solution will be sustaining until at least recognition of the mutual ties to the land, mutual losses and mutual respect are achieved.