In theory there is some form or degree of law and due process even for West Bank Palestinians in Israel. But when the political institutions are not just imperfect, but garishly impervious to binding participation of groups of people, the result nearly always is predation and conflict. Not because the state "owes it" to those people, although it does that too. But because the purpose of a state is to balance the invisible, inaccessible, inchoate interests of all who reside on a territory. 18/