its not only for the palestinians... all expats here can not be a qatari citizen... but its not that qatari government dont want to share the benifits that the locals are enjoying to other nationalities.... the local (qatari) population maybe only 20% or lesser to the total inhabitants of ths small country, then imagine this, if qatari govt. will give ctizenship to long staying expats, then we have another indian state here (smile, its a joke).. or, ok, another china...