by israelirealities » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:45 am
Veritas you are more than welcome to <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>not</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->[/b]</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> give it a rest and explore what you had in mind, its only that the type of messaging, like following a cue and I am led in the dark, is triggering, but I am sure you didn't ahve the intention.<br><br>Jenz- bloodlines. Well, I think this is a residue from not so long ago in history that monarchies and bloodlines officially ruled our lives, and so you'd have to be adept in finding all the cousins and bastards and hidden connections in order to chart the world around you. In fact in ENgland and some European countries (BELGIUM...-)) monarchies exist and gentry and what not, so it is almost as relevant today to some degree, although the power shifted to other hierarchies as well. <br>In the third world, if you take Saudi Arabia for one, bloodlines are still serious political legitimate way to analyse policies, and we see the Bin LAden issue as a reminder, cause he is certainly royalty etc.<br>In the Jewish world, as we did not have monarchy or official gentry for some time (two millenia, to be exact) this is less of an issue, cause someone can be "nobody" and make it to millions. but I can see how the notion of "blood lines" extended itself to analyse the Jewish tribe as well, in Europe. <br>This is their way of charting the world of politics and money and scams. You can see this also in the analysis of the Bush monarchy :-). In fact we too have a little ridiculous version of a "blood line" in Sharon and sons...this was not common so far, to see the kids of a politician working with their father as little "princes" did in the past. Its weird and disgusting and mocks democracy. <br>The Jewish "bloodlines" mentioned often are ROthchild, and perhaps others ? I don't know for sure. Rothchild is the closest we have to real gentry, since they are European and quite an old family that remained in tact. I am much more concerned with millionnaires like Lauder and recently we heard here of another one, can't remember the name (maybe Hecht ?), who made money from stock exchange and meddles here and gives a LOT of money to right wing religious fanatics because he does not have anything better to do in his retirement pasttime. And there are many more "new" millionnaires, Saban (from LA) who just bought our natinal telephone company and many anonymous ones buying off our politicians, generals and what not. They are not "gentry" at all. Soros, also, is not a "good family" I think. AS I said, I understand where the terminology and the notions are coming from, and I can see how the Europeans might even examine the entire Jewish community in their city or country as one "monarchy/bloodline" etc etc. note also the interest in Da Vinci Code with the idea of a Jesus blood line actually kept in tact since 2000 years ago. So, its wider habit in some cultures.<br>OUr religion has a lot of this "pedigree" stuff, in relation to the cast of the priests, who in older times were in charge of functions in the temple. (Cohen). I can't say I like it, but these are remnants of old times, and we see them resurrected now, in our fairly young democracies who were invented as a means to stop the monarchic rule (the French revolution, the communist revolution, etc.). Maybe it failed and we are back to these "bloodline" stuff. I hope not, cause my family sucks big time.<br> <p></p><i></i>