I have been to Israel on biz and met a bunch of normal Israeli dudes, and a bunch of Israeli soldiers too. I even met this one cat that happened to be one of the military gunman in the notorious "Flotilla" incident. They all spoke decent english too.
I had no idea what to expect based on the shit on the news. In my experience all the dudes I met seemed to be pretty nice, non-religious, down to earth. They all had very similar values and culture to me as an American. They just wanted to chill, get drunk, fuck hot girls, watch sports, and make money. These fuckers were even quoting family guy. Very non-extremist.
So based on that, I'm going with them. FUCK HAMAS