Israel ? No, but I learned to respect Jews and Israel in school until I knew better, and my friends started to come back from their Un service in Lebanon. But I praised the Jewish belief just 2 hours for being a strong culture and have a strong belief which take them places. Not only within Israel, but all over the world. Why I do not admire Israel is because they won their land by terrorism, exactly the same way Palestinians fighting for their land, and to keep what is left of it. Again, two wrongs do not make one right.