""Don, you have endlessly criticised Israel for their perceived ill treatment of Bedouin, but you have never once criticised Egypt for their actual persecution and marginalisation of them, denying them even basic citizenship and employment rights.
Nothing to do with Zionism there.""

We all have plenty of evidence of your highly selective notions of what is, or is not pertinent to any topic.

Taking a leaf out of your book, I stick to the topic of Israel in a thread about Israel.

If you feel inclined to start a thread about how badly the Egyptians treat the Bedouins, I will be right there with you in deploring and castigating them and their actions.

If however, you want me to subscribe to your ridiculous claim that the evil actions of Egypt, or Syria, or any other nation not under discussion, somehow excuse any excesses of the Israeli government, dream on. I'm not that stupid.

And if, in a thread about Egypt's excesses you were to align yourself with Egypt and try to excuse them, the response from me would be exactly the same as you have received here.

War crimes, crimes against humanity and infringements of human and civil rights are not a competition in which there are minor miscreants who get a free pass because someone else is worse, and only a biased and bigotted individual would try to claim otherwise.

Don T.