Hi Cuppy,
Just woken up....be gentle with me.
Bedouins were/ are nomads who live a life in which they have a "range" of living sites. They herd their animals and, I guess, wander the desert.
I suppose my viewpoint on this is basically, I am not a Christian. I believe that Abraham hearing God's voice, after not eating or sleeping ......after slitting the throats of his flock etc....being told by god 'To your descendants I give this land,from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites' ........was a schizophrenic episode. I'd like to see how far he'd get with that one today...... There's also the story that in their 80's he and his wife Sarah were told 'by "God" that 'I give you and your descendants all the land of Canaan - an everlasting possession!'. When a child was not forthcoming Sarah ordered her slave Hagar to lie with her husband and bear him a child. Mission accomplished, Ishmael.....then Sarah (90) discovers she is pregnant. Abraham by this time is 100. So Sarah orders Hagar and her child to be cast out to the desert. This is thought to be the origins of the Bedouins. I would have to say that was a very unkind act from people professing to be bearers of God's word. Isaac is born.
To which lot of descendants did "God" refer?
Religion is the thing that it is impossible to overcome. Therein lies my belief that Israel should not exist....why weren't the Jews sent back to their countries of origin? I doubt anybody will agree with me but it will make no difference the whole conflict is beyond reason now............