Bietak shared this opinion, writing that "although this new term [heka-khawaset] perhaps was originally applied by the Egyptians in a disparaging way to the new rulers of the land, the rulers themselves employed ‘Hyksos’ as an official ruler's title".
Bietak's viewpoint is that the term "heka-khawaset" may have been used negatively by the Egyptians to refer to the new rulers but was subsequently embraced by those same rulers as their official title.