Palestine and Squatting?

As someone who both lived in that squat and witnessed home demolitions in Palestine, I would say that other then the fact that both are bad, there really isn't all that muchof a similarity between the two events.
Here are some reasons why

-Capitalism has very little to do with home demolitions in palestine- No one is bulldozing homes to promote the real estate market in Jenin,, although obviously some people are making money off it. (Caterpillar bulldozers for example)
the main ideology behind it is zionism which, in the current extreme version being practiced by a right wing government, intends to drive the remaining palestinian population out of "greater Israel", or the west Bank and Gaza so that the population will be entirely Jewish.

- Communist, Socialist, and fundamentalist Muslim Governments (actually all governments) all have records of throwing people out of their homes and demolishing homes for political purposes, as well as capitalist governments, so the argument that this is all part of some greater philosophy of "Capitalism" is flawed...

- Comparing kicking out a bunch of 1st world priviledged people out of a house because they refuse to pay rent, while bad, is not anywhere near as tragic as killing people and demolishing houses on land where families have lived for generations. (or a couple of miles from where they have lived for generations, over the green line) There's nothing wrong with not wanting to pay rent. But Palestinians are not occupying land in order to not pay rent. I think its kind of insulting to compare suffering of palestinians who have much less choices than anyone living in America.

Palestinians have landlords and a traditional culture which has nothing against the idea of rent anymore then any "capitalist" system.

Also, Palestinians are stateless in search of a state and government, whereas squatters and the homes not jails movement are usually apolitical people who don't want to pay rent or anarchists who oppose nationalism and borders of any kind.
The more close analogy to squatting would be the Israeli government which kicks people off their land and then moves its own people into the same land.

Even that is a bad analogy, because the Israeli government drives people out by force, while the pacific heights squatters never drove anyone out of an empty house.

I think there's a pretty weak case for lumping the two causes together. It either is too broad to be meaningful, or unnecessary.

Its much less of a risk to try and live on an empty house that was stolen from mexico and native americans hundreds of years ago then it is to just try and live a life where you can be shot on the street for leaving your own house.

Squatters in SF have more in common with poor Sephardic refugee jews in Israel on a rent strike then with Palestinians refugees with no legal protection or even human rights..Squatters in the US still have legal rights and are not living under military rule.