While they are at it, they should be sure that they are not backsliding on that boycott of Israeli goods, including the generics made by Teva Pharmaceuticals, and the medical equipment made in Israel to be found in hospitals everywhere.

Actually, since so many pills made by drug companies contain pig products, wouldn't it be safer to avoid Western drugs, Western hospitals, Western doctors? Surely by this time, more than a half-century after the oil billions really started to flow, and thirty-five years since the fantastic bonanza began to be measured not in billions but in trillions, the Arabs have had the chance to build up their own medical industries, outfit their own hospitals, train their own doctors, especially in fabulously-rich Saudi Arabia? Haven't they?