Here's an interesting link to health and literacy statistics in the Middle East

CAMERA: Will Massive Infusions of Aid Rescue the Palestinian Economy?

Amazingly these cruelly persecuted people living in intolerable conditions have the second highest life expectancy, the second lowest infant mortality rate and the highest literacy rates in the entire Arab world.

Also one of the highest primary school attendance rates.

Why does THIS never get mentioned. You would think from the media that these people were living in refugee campst and dying daily from plague and famine, and yet their standard of living is better than ANY Arab nation other than Syria.

Interesting.......