Bedouin

Bedu, the Arabic word from which the name bedouin is derived, is a simple, straightforward tag. It means "inhabitant of the desert," and refers generally to the desert-dwelling nomads of Arabia, the Negev, and the Sinai.
Israel’s Bedouin citizens – a minority within the Arab minority.
To the mass of wandering greedy banditti, or half-starved Arabs of the desert, who have their scanty maintenance by the plunder of others. These descendants of Ishmael have ever had their hands against all men, and live to this day in the same grasping manner in which they have lived for several thousands of years.
"These men are smaller, leaner, and blacker, than any of the Bedouins yet discovered. Their wasted legs had only tendons without calves.
Their belly was shrunk to their back.
They are in general small, lean, and swarthy and more so in the bosom of the desert than on the borders of the more cultivated country.
They are ordinarily about five feet or five feet two inches high.
They seldom have more than about six ounces of food for the whole day. Six or seven dates, soaked in melted butter, a little milk, or curd, serve a man for twenty-four hours; and he seems happy when he can add a small portion of coarse flour, or a little ball of rice.
Their camels also, which are their only support, are remarkably inadequate, living on the meanest and most scanty provision.
G-d has given it a small head without ears, at the end of a long neck without flesh.
G-d has taken from its legs and thighs every muscle not immediately requisite for motion; and in short has bestowed on its wasted body only the vessels and tendons necessary to connect its frame together.
G-d has furnished it with a strong jaw, that it may grind the hardest elements; and, lest it should consume too much.
G-d has straitened its stomach, and obliged it to chew the cud." Such is the description given of the Bedouin and his camel.
The process is fraught with "natural" difficulties experienced by this cultural group:
The transition from a traditional, conservative society which only a generation ago was nomadic, entails relinquishing values, customs and a traditional economy;
The Bedouin have to cope with the process of urbanization – the very antithesis of their nomadic tradition – and the attending poverty and crime rate;
The Bedouin to some extent fail to distinguish between objective difficulties and those connected with their changing sub-culture and thus feel an exaggerated sense of deprivation.
Yet a comparison of the situation of the Bedouin in Israel to that in Arab countries will show that Israeli Bedouin enjoy conditions that their brethren lack, mainly in two areas: welfare and land ownership.
Have you felt like you have become an inhabitant of the desert?
In a dry place with a lot of thirst and lack of good spiritual food?
Living on the meanest and most scanty provision?
In need of a life change and tired of wandering around in circles?
Turn to the Creator, and He will guide your path.
Grow in intimacy in Him through His Word.