I’ve always dreamed about the Bedouin life and imagined living it.
To me, Bedouin life means freedom, native intelligence and a simplicity of life that heals us from the diseases of modern industrial civilization, the pressure to pay bills, the air pollution and the food contaminated with preservatives.
Before Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, I would often sit in front of the television with my family in the evening and watch a Bedouin series extolling the simplicity of life in the desert.
The program depicted tribes living in oases in the heart of the desert, building simple homes, raising goats, camels, horses and chickens. When someone wanted to wander, he would simply mount his horse and set off across the vast sands of the desert.
The Bedouin did not need passports or transit visas because their land was large and knew no borders. People lived on what they produced from agriculture and animal husbandry……more
