Man Whose Ancestors Migrated From Arabia In 1800s Proud Of His Ancient Palestinian Indigeneity

The land was Jewish only starting about three and a half thousand years ago.

A map of the Red Sea from 1838. Howeitat settlements are concentrated along the northeastern coast.

Abu Dis, December 16 – A descendant of an influential Bedouin clan speaks of his prestigious origins at any given opportunity, observers report, especially their pedigree as native to Palestine from time immemorial, specifically from the nineteenth century CE when elements of that clan migrated northwest along the eastern Red Sea coast into the Levant and Egypt.

Mustafa Erakat, a distant cousin to the late Palestinian official Saeb Erekat and several other prominent Palestinian public figures, boasted yet again on Thursday to all within earshot that as a scion of the Howeitat Bedouin, who migrated over the last several hundred years out of Arabia and into what is now Israel and Jordan, he holds a high societal rank among Bedouin tribes, who were here long before the usurper Zionists came along and returned to the land that was Jewish only starting about three and a half thousand years ago.

“Palestinians are the indigenous people of this land, and I am part of the cream of that people,” he insisted at a funeral gathering for a man who met his end trying to run over Israeli soldiers with a car. “My clan has been here forever, starting about a hundred-fifty years ago when some of them began to abandon the pastoral life of traditional Bedouin and settled into more-or-less permanent villages up and down the Red Sea and pots north. We’re still pretty big in Jordan.”

“Not like those Jews who came later and took over from us,” he continued, referring to an imaginary period when the place then called Palestine by outsiders enjoyed sovereign rule by its indigenous Arab inhabitants, as opposed to the last time until 1948 that any part of the Holy Land actually enjoyed sovereign rule by its indigenous people, namely the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel.

Experts voiced uncertainty as to Erekat’s purpose in his continued boasting. “I mean, all Palestinians are part of a people that goes back to the very beginnings of antiquity, no matter what documented history and archaeology claim,” explained activist Noura Erakat, also a cousin. “We Howeitat are a fine specimen of the Arab demographic, but then, all Palestinians can claim that, even the ones descended of Balkan migrant workers who came to the land a hundred years ago when the Zionists began developing the place and made it thrive economically. Anyone who tries to dismiss our indigenous status by citing such racist concepts as ‘documented history’ and ‘evidence’ is a Zionist shill.”

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