Are they entitled to a state – of course not. They are a people made up in the 60, have never been a nation, or even a unified body, have never had a claim to the land. In any case, what ENTITLES any nation to a state? States happen, come into existence, are created. Most states in this area are a result of empires giving land to those who support them. Do the Jordanian Kings deserve their state? Obviously their help to the British empire made them deserving, not their nationalist status.
That does not mean that the the Pals will not get a state. Facts on the ground make it almost impossible to live in any form or peace without them being granted that. So yes, deserving or entitled to or neither, the Palestinian State at least in some form is already a fact on the ground. So far it's not an independent state but it has a government, and areas that it governs, etc.

Are they ready for statehood – well the new black government of Nelson Mandela was more ready than these money grabbing Arab Palestinian leadership, but the Blacks were considered ready for statehood and got it. Look what they have done to South Africa. (Same can be said of Zimbabwe or much of Africa, which is very close to the middle east). Does the world still consider the South African or Zimbabwe governmental ready for statehood – obviously yes.

So basically the question/s might be moral to ask, but are totally irreverent.
Our world is not big on Morals these days. Just look at the UN and UNHRC.

"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged the Arab League on Sunday not to withdraw its 2002 peace initiative as he called instead for renewed negotiations with Israel for six months.

He told the League in Doha he would demand that Israel freeze West Bank settlement construction and Jewish building in east Jerusalem during that time."

Wow, Mr. Pearl, you are a professor of Computer Sciences? Allow me to tell you that your above statement is as false as a logical statement can be. Are you sure this is what you wanted to really say? Then, you haven't even deserved a graduation in computer sciences.

There is no controversy between Israelis and Palestinians that Jews are a combination of religion and ethnicity and that they are a people. But there is a strong movement negating the right of Jews to establish a Jewish states in which Jews automatically – or by ways of ethnic minorities population control- are ruling in a state formed according to the needs and will of its Jewish population only. There is no other state in the world that defines itself as being the state of just one single ethno-religious group, which in addition also uses the most extreme and narrow admission rules to the group that the world has ever seen.
The recognition of Israel as the Jewish State in the above sense is rejected not only by Palestinians, but by millions of Jews, too, who don't accept the slogan "Israel for the Jews", which sounds so much like the "Deutschland den Deutschen" (Germany dfor the Germans) that built the foundation of the Drittes Reich 1933-1945.
You're suggesting the most ime moral nationalist concept that ever existed on Earth to be embraced by the Jews of Israel, too… The Germans called it 19933-1945: "One people one land, one land one people" (Ein Volk ein Land, ein Land ein Volk).

How does a traditional, authentic Jew use sayin' in his everyday language? "Geh kaken afen yam"

Otherwise it is a reasonable, simple, easy to implement proposition that would move the pressure points upon Abbas and PA. Thank you, Mr. Pearl!

Wow, Mr. Pearl, you are a professor of Computer Sciences? Allow me to tell you that your above statement is as false as a logical statement can be. Are you sure this is what you wanted to really say? Then, you haven't even deserved a graduation in computer sciences.

There is no controversy between Israelis and Palestinians that Jews are a combination of religion and ethnicity and that they are a people. But there is a strong movement negating the right of Jews to establish a Jewish states in which Jews automatically – or by ways of ethnic minorities population control- are ruling in a state formed according to the needs and will of its Jewish population only. There is no other state in the world that defines itself as being the state of just one single ethno-religious group, which in addition also uses the most extreme and narrow admission rules to the group that the world has ever seen.
The recognition of Israel as the Jewish State in the above sense is rejected not only by Palestinians, but by millions of Jews, too, who don't accept the slogan "Israel for the Jews", which sounds so much like the "Deutschland den Deutschen" (Germany dfor the Germans) that built the foundation of the Drittes Reich 1933-1945.
You're suggesting the most ime moral nationalist concept that ever existed on Earth to be embraced by the Jews of Israel, too… The Germans called it 19933-1945: "One people one land, one land one people" (Ein Volk ein Land, ein Land ein Volk).

How does a traditional, authentic Jew use sayin' in his everyday language? "Geh kaken afen yam"

Otherwise it is a reasonable, simple, easy to implement proposition that would move the pressure points upon Abbas and PA. Thank you, Mr. Pearl!