The Bedouin were there before there was an Egypt.
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The Bedouin were there before there was a modern Egypt.
There are documents holding specific Bedouin families that region dating to the 9th Century. As you probably know, with all the BS trying to establish a "Palestinian" people, there has also been a fair bit of hereditary work performed in that area. There is mt-DNA evidence of Canaanitic bloodlines in some Bedouin families, indicating far more ancient origins. Yet what defines a nomadic people is more than blood, but lifestyle and culture that remains in one region with specific people who migrate over fair distances upon occasion, just as we see the Ya'akov and his family in Bereshit. In that respect there have been herders of similar attributes in that region for as long as we can detect human influence, the only serious cultural break of which I am aware being the introduction of Islam.
Cain is the wanderer as soon as he wrecks his soil.
BTW, I scanned your page. You might want to take a look at excerpts from my first book that deals directly with the issues of eco-thugs and anadromous fish in coastal California.