""If Israel is being demonized for it, I do think the comparison should at least be acknowledged Don.""

Acknowledged?........... YES!!

Used to absolve one side or the other from blame entirely (which is what you are doing) on the grounds that they are not the worst .......NO!!

Nowhere have you admitted, or even hinted, that Israel bears any guilt whatever for its treatment of Palestinians or Bedouins.

Don T.