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poetic – if Inez’s distant ancestors had been partly Jewish.

I can find no more recent relationship between Inez and I than that we must be descended from one common ancestor 7,000

years ago who gave us both blue eyes (which must have been really exotic at the time, and which trait we have successfully passed on to both our children).

I don’t know anything about Helen’s family, but I think she also came from Bessarabia. Her picture reveals a strong, square jawed, This is an excellent example of inbreeding, by the way. Blue eyes are recessive: It takes two of them to blue up your iris.

beautiful woman. Helen was married to Wolf and died of TB in her late 20s or early 30s. Her children were Rose, Dorothy, and Obviously, common ancestors had to have more than one child, and somewhere along the line, the descendants of the common Jack.

ancestors had to mate – making double recessives, which brings on the recessive as dominant trait – which ensures more blue eyeballs .

Blue eyes are disappearing.

Genetics is not always a spoiler in all these situations. The Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe has always claimed Semitic origins –

though some Jews were not exactly eager to accept their oral history. For one thing, the Lemba are extremely black. For another: they live so far away from Israel – the question has to be asked how they got there:

How did they get there? (Probably by boat to the African coast on trading expeditions)

Lest any reader take this to mean that Jews as a group are racists (which fits into the anti-semitic stereotype of the exclusivity of The Chosen People), Jews around the world support the Lemba as far as their government allows us to. And the Right of Return has been granted to many non-white Jews, uncluding: the Indian, Chinese, and Ethiopian Jews. I myself have donated books to them, in the hopes they learn to read “Tom Sawyer.” So far, though, no thank you notes; they have to also learn to write.

Conspiracy is afoot these days about most things Jewish, and for purely political purposes.

Many Islamists weighing in on the Palestinian “cause” have latched onto the preposterous construct that, though Israel might have been the historical homeland of the Jews, the Jews who have fled there just before and after Independence are really imposters!

Lunatic Muslims are eager to have you believe that the current Israelis are composed of mostly white guys and girls – folks who are not related to the original Children of Israel – who were actually – TA DA! - the Palestinians!

Are the Palestinians one of the Lost Tribes of Israel?

The Israelis claim that the Palestinians themselves are an “invented people” - a mix of some original Semites, to be sure, and a lot of Arabs from Egypt, who are mostly black and African. The Israelis say THEY and not the Palestinians are descendants of the early Tribes of Israel.

There is a lot more at stake here than knowing how to fill out census forms.

While DNA studies tend to confirm the Jewish definition of Palestinians as Arab and black African, their Semitic signature is closely related to the Jews’.

Crete

When you read history as it was written two thousand years ago, and you’re looking for the Origin of the Jews, you have to consider Tacitus:

As I am about to relate the last days of a famous city, it seems appropriate to throw some light on its origin. Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn 553

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