DT. wrote:Best add me as well...dated a really hot Israeli chick once.
With a dick?
DT. wrote:Best add me as well...dated a really hot Israeli chick once.
kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:Best add me as well...dated a really hot Israeli chick once.
With a dick?
DT. wrote:kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:Best add me as well...dated a really hot Israeli chick once.
With a dick?
Judging by the speed of your response, I'm afraid that question says more about you than me
kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:Best add me as well...dated a really hot Israeli chick once.
With a dick?
Judging by the speed of your response, I'm afraid that question says more about you than me
DT's ex-'girl'friend...
Then he met GR!
kurupetos wrote:Mark Zonkerberg.
You will not stop us.
The same process was repeated in Portugal. While many Iberian Marranos eventually gave up their religion, many more left and flooded Europe and the New World (America) with Jews who were able to pass as Christians, i.e. "crypto Jews."
According to Prinz, they prospered wherever they went. Their wealth was "staggering...In Bordeaux, Avignon, Nantes and Marseilles, it became a compliment to characterize a Christian businessman as being "riche comme une juif."
In England, there were only 100 Marrano families in the early 17th century but "they were among the most successful merchants in London." In Germany, 40 Marrano families participated in the founding of the Bank of Hamburg in 1619. The fortune of the Marranos of Altona near Hamburg, was estimated at almost six million marks and some of the finest homes in nearby Amsterdam belonged to newly arrived Marranos." (127)
Everyone knew they were Christians of convenience. "The fiction of their Christian allegiance was a business arrangement...[their] banking house..was a Christian institution with which emperors, dukes, bishops, and heads of government could safely do business." (130)
Inevitably, these Marrano bankers and merchants acted in concert. Prinz tells the story of the Marrano banker (House of Mendes) Joseph Nasi (1524-1579) who controlled the Ottoman Empire as Adviser to Sultan Suleiman and later his son Salim. He tried to create a Jewish homeland at Tiberias but no Jews wanted to settle there. Later, he devised the "Marrano Strategy." He would boycott or ruin anyone who persecuted Marranos. (141)
When a fire destroyed the Harbor of Venice in 1571, many suspected the House of Mendes of paying arsonists to set the blaze. "And while much of the city was still in flames, Joseph Nasi counselled the sultan to occupy the Venetian island of Cyprus, declaring it a Turkish possession." (142)
yialousa1971 wrote:kurupetos wrote:Mark Zonkerberg.
You will not stop us.
Is Zonk related to Mark?
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