Gene Simmons sends video to Israeli

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"Israeli-born "KISS" rocker Gene Simmons sent a get-well video to an Israeli soldier wounded in Lebanon, calling him a hero the world should be proud of.

"I can't tell you how proud I am of you and how much the world and Israel owe you a debt of gratitude," Simmons told Ron Weinreich, a tank crewman paralyzed from the chest down, in a video broadcast on Saturday on Israel's Channel 2 television.

Channel 2 said the KISS bassist made the video for Weinreich, a fan of the legendary rock group, at the request of Israel's Soldiers' Welfare Association, a fund-raising group.

Weinreich, hospitalized near Tel Aviv, was wounded two weeks ago in fighting against Hizbollah guerrillas.

"From the bottom of my heart, you're a real hero, you're everybody's hero, you're my hero," said Simmons, who recorded the video in the United States and added in Hebrew: "My name is Haim. I was born in Haifa."

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biography walks away from it repulsed by the arrogance and sleazy behavior of this man. :puke:

I never liked him in the band KISS ... I now KNOW that my initial impression was spot on insightful after perusing all the DIGESTING things he is "Proud of" ... yes, Gene Simmons is a real piece of work I would not wish to be associated with. I doubt that the good people of Israel are impressed. :thumbsdown: :(

Saying they should be ashamed of how they degrade their women. Imagine that from Gene Simmons. Hypocrite to the max.

but he is a Bush supporter.

He had surgeons cut "something" that keeps the rest of us humans' tongues in place.

Go figure. :eyes: :puke:

It's always good to support the average troop because they are not the crazed leaders who start wars, but I wouldn't be bragging to my family and friends to have received a visit from one each, Gene Simmons. :crazy:

The reason he thinks he is smarter than anyone is because he is actually so stupid that he doesn't know how stupid he is.

Sound familiar?

His family is amazingly normal and cool. Of course he didn't talk about politics at all.

The show made me feel sorry for Ozzy's family.