> As someone pointed out recently - where did I see this? ah the combination of the Internet and my aging memory - with apartheid, SA wanted black labor. Israel doesn't want Pal labor - just land. That's a difference.
That's a relatively recent development though. From the early 70s until Oslo, between a third and a half (100,000-150,000 workers) of the OT Palestinian workforce was employed in Israel. That dropped in the 90s a bit but got back up to those absolute numbers in 2000. Of course since then the numbers have gone way down, when they've existed at all.