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'ISRAEL ONLY FREE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,' REPORT FINDS


WHILE THERE IS NO COMPARISON WITH ITS NEIGHBORS, ISRAEL DOES SCORE LOWER THAN
MOST OTHER NATIONS IN THE FREE WORLD, BY THE MEASURES OF THIS REPORT.

By MICHAEL WILNER
Published: FEBRUARY 2, 2017 00:13

Updated: FEBRUARY 2, 2017 09:40

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WASHINGTON – Civil liberties and political freedoms are under threat worldwide
and have been rolled back in the world’s founding democracies, Freedom House
declared on Wednesday in its annual report.

Israel remains the only free country in the Middle East, scoring 80 on a scale
of 100. That compares favorably with partly free countries in the region such as
Turkey (38), Jordan (37) and Kuwait (36), and with countries deemed “not free”
by the nonprofit: Iraq (27), Iran (17), Saudi Arabia (10) and Syria (-1), among
all other Mideast nations.

While there is no comparison with its neighbors, Israel does score lower than
most other nations in the free world, by the measures of this report: European
and North American nations all scored between 89 and 100, with the exception of
the Balkan nations and Greece, which scored between 80 and 84.




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Freedom House calculates its scores based on a complex methodology of political
rights indicators and 15 civil liberties indicators – such as electoral process,
political pluralism and participation and functioning of government – as well as
freedom of belief, rule of law, and several other absolute principles of liberal
democracies outlined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Within its report on Israel, Freedom House classifies the nation’s media as
“partly free.” Its full report on Israel will be published at a later date.

The overall findings of the report are stark, warning of “populist and
nationalist forces making significant gains in democratic states.” This report
marks the 11th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, it reads.

“There were setbacks in political rights, civil liberties, or both, in a number
of countries rated ‘free’ by the report,” Freedom House noted, “including
Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, South
Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia and the United States.”




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