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8,000 Beduin In Occupied Land Stake
Claim As The Lost Tribe Of Barack
Obama |
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November 13, 2008 The Times -- He has a host
of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii
to Kenya, and during his run for the American
presidency he discovered that he had an aunt
living in Boston.
Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one
but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in
northern Israel.
Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of
Obama has yet to reveal the documentary
evidence that he says he possesses to support
his claim, people are flocking from across the
region to pay their respects to the “Bedu
Obama”, whose social standing has gone through
the roof.
“We knew about it years ago but we were afraid
to talk about it because we didn’t want to
influence the election,” Abdul Rahman Sheikh
Abdullah, a 53-year-old local council member,
told The Times in the small Beduin village of
Bir al-Maksour in the Israeli region of
Galilee. “We wrote a letter to him explaining
the family connection.”
Mr Obama’s team have not responded to the
letter so far but that has not dampened Sheikh
Abdullah’s festivities.
He has been handing out sweets and huge dishes
of baklava traditional honey-sweetened
pastries to all and sundry, and plans to hold
a large party next week at which he will
slaughter a dozen goats to feed the village.
It was his 95-year-old mother who first
spotted the connection, he says. Seeing the
charismatic senator on television, she noted a
striking resemblance to one of the African
migrant workers who used to be employed by
rich sheikhs in the fertile north of British
Mandate Palestine in the 1930s.
The Africans would sometimes marry local
Beduin girls and start families, though, like
many migrant workers, would just as frequently
return home after several years.
One of those men was a relative of Barack
Obama’s Kenyan grandmother, Sheikh Abdullah
maintains.
He estimates that his tribe extends to as many
as 8,000 members, all of them loosely
connected to the African-American senator for
Illinois.
Sheikh Abdullah swears that he has papers and
pictures to back up his claim but has promised
his mother not to divulge them until he has
presented them to Mr Obama, something he hopes
will happen once his “relative” is in the
White House.
“We want to send a delegation to congratulate
him, and we know we’ll get an answer soon,” he
grinned.
Sheikh Abdullah’s renown as the relative of
the soon-to-be most powerful man on Earth has
spread like wildfire among the Arab community
of northern Israel, and especially among
Beduin, a formerly semi-nomadic group of
pastoralists corralled into townships by the
modern state of Israel.
Two baby boys born into the sheikh’s large
clan have even been named Obama.
“We knew he’d win,” the sheikh said,
constantly interrupted by a barrage of phone
calls from wellwishers and those hoping to
cash in on his newfound wasta, an Arabic term
denoting influence or clout. “We have always
been a lucky family.
“We hope he’ll end all wars and intervene here
to solve our problems in Israel. The Beduin
are the people who suffer the most here,” he
added while greeting a wellwisher from Ghajar,
an Arab town divided between Israel and
southern Lebanon, the bitter legacy of the
Jewish state’s long occupation of southern
Lebanon.
“We hope to God that Obama will solve the
problem of Ghajar,” said Sheikh Issam al-Khalil,
a leading citizen of the divided town, whose
residents mostly speak Hebrew and Arabic but
many of whom consider themselves as originally
Syrian.
“Everyone is talking about [Sheikh Abdullah’s
ties to Mr Obama] . . . They believe it. The
sheikhs from all the villages are talking
about it. There’s a whole delegation of Druze
leaders coming from the Golan Heights to
congratulate him.”
The history of the Middle East is littered
with the stories of false messiahs and their
brief followings. For the time being, Sheikh
Abdullah is greeting a dozen respectful
visitors a day, basking in the reflected glory
of what would be not only the first
African-American US President but the first
one who could claim kinship with an entire
clan of Beduin. |
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