Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
I have been to Israel a few times and I can assure you that people are not starving. Most families lived VERY well and plasma t.v.'s were standard. I still say the guy is a warrior who has been on the front lines for 30 years fighting his ass off. People should have been taking notes.
The man is a fat slob, and this stroke is his own fault.

If we didn't give Israel billions of dollars a year, most of which goes into their military might, they wouldn't be doing very well - to say the least. And before somebody plays the "anti-Semite" card, I happen to be married into a Jewish (Reformed) family, whose elders attend the NYC Israel Day parade every year, and donate heavily to various Israeli charities. They would rather give the money to Israel than spend it on a vaction there.

The people that are going hungry in that area are not necessarily the "chosen" people, but I'm sure that you could find poverty-stricken Jews as well, if you left the tourist paths.