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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163173)	5/26/2005 7:57:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Well if it is so subjective, then why the blood line rule? How come the girl in our question does not have to jump through hoops to prove she is a Jew but another person who would arguably be a bigger (though perhaps not perfect) genetic and cultural Jew cannot be considered a Jew? Because that's how familial inheritance works. Everywhere. Some people do it patrilineally, some matrilineally, some have different rules on adoption, but NOBODY does it through percentage genes shared with some arbitrary baseline. Also, it is a matter of cultural and religious inheritance as well as bloodlines; you know, but you don't want to admit it. BTW, I bet if you were to do DNA tests of Arab Bedouins or Palestinians you could come up with a fairly object measure of their ethnicity. I don't know about the Bedouins, but hoo boy would you lose for the Palestinians! The Middle East is incredibly ethnically mixed. Everybody has come through there - Jews, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, Arabs, Circassians, Mongols, Turks, everybody! The Mufti, that great symbol of the ancient Jerusalem clan of the Husseinis, had red hair and blue eyes. What do you think you would have learned from his DNA?