The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked 20 Middle East countries on 15 indicators of political and civil liberty. Here's how they stack up:
Israel: 8.20
Lebanon: 6.55
Morocco: 5.20
Iraq: 5.05
Palestine: 5.05
Kuwait: 4.90
Tunisia: 4.60
Jordan: 4.45
Qatar: 4.45
Egypt: 4.30
Sudan: 4.30
Yemen: 4.30
Algeria: 4.15
Oman: 4.00
Bahrain: 3.85
Iran: 3.85
UAE: 3.70
Saudi Arabia: 2.80
Syria: 2.80
Libya: 2.05
The UAE doesn't come out too well, does it?
20 November, 2005
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That list is uninformed BS.
Would you like to tell us what problem you had with the methodology of the compilation of that list, seeing as you consider it uninformed?
i'd say the UAE got a pretty fair rating.
how many journalists have been arrested lately? blogs blocked?
does anyone else notice the irony in the fact that israel has the highest score?
Not many people here have been to Tunisia.
does anyone else notice the irony in the fact that israel has the highest score?
Oh wait, now that you mention it, there is an elephant in the middle of the room.
It's also speaks volumes that Iraq, despite effectively being under foreign occupation, is better off than any of its Arab neighbors.
hmmm tunisia is apparently in the middle east... weird..
oh wait.. another weird one.. israel
i thought they were european,, especially after the last eurovision contest.
Very well said, Slagothor.
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