(April 30, 2008) There is probably not one adult anywhere in the civilized world who doesn’t know the charmingly stupid Marilyn Monroe song 'Diamonds are a girl’s best friends' or at least its title. The song was the launch of the most successful advertising campaign ever of South African diamond miner DeBeers.
Since then, women all over the world have been measuring how much they are valued by their man – and how valuable that man is as a provider - by the famous five C's: color, carat, clarity, cut and certification.
It is no coincidence that the English word 'Jewellery' starts with the word Jew.
The German language is even more blunt. Its traditional word for Jewelry is ‘Judentand’, literally translated ‘Jewish knick-knacks’.
From a historic angle, diamonds are the modern version of medieval Jewish magicians' scam to convert dirt into gold. A shiny little piece of see through hardened carbon, dug out of the ground - more often than not - by slave laborers, and distributed by a Jewish duopoly, Rothschild owned DeBeers and Russian-Israeli Lev Leviev, sold for thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars.