Timeline for Is Israel the only "Free and Democratic" country in the Middle East?
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 1:58 | comment | added | Carlo Alterego | @sklivvz, però la discussione fra Glen, Gerrit e George sembrava interessante qui, nonché finalizzata a migliorare la risposta. Trovo il tuo invito a non continuare l'approfondimento assai soffocante in questo caso, davvero troppo. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 20:48 | history | edited | Online User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 17:00 | comment | added | Sklivvz | Please avoid arguments in the comments, just refer to the answer and how it can be improved. If you simply don't like the sources, downvote and move on. If you think the sources are good, then upvote. There's no need to state your opinion on them unless it's something that is likely to improve the answer. | |
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| May 29, 2015 at 17:29 | comment | added | Glen O | Perhaps a good second source, that neatly demonstrates the different perspectives, is this one: knoema.com/GDI2015JAN/democracy-index-2014 - it's coming from the Economist's "intelligence unit", and puts Israel in the "Flawed Democracy" section... and further investigation reveals that it's there because it performs quite poorly in the "civil liberties" section (which we'd probably refer to as "freedom") - for comparison Australia gets a score of 10, while Israel doesn't even make 6. Other ME countries do worse, but this suggests no ME country is "free and democratic". | |
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| May 29, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | Online User | @GlenO: The Freedom Tollhouse is an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world. It may be in the US but it has nothing to do with the US government. For me, it is 100% reliable. The PDF report has been linked in my answer, examine it and if you object any specific claims there let me know. Just attacking a source, calling it opinionated won't make a constructive argument. | |
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| May 28, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | gerrit | Freedom House is not without criticism and arguably not a suitable source to answer this question. Its definitions and methodologies have been criticised (1, 2). | |
| May 28, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | Glen O | On an issue like this, I would think that more than one US NGO would be appropriate as a reference. It also needs to establish a confident definition of "free" (for instance, if we consider economic freedom, then UAE and Qatar both easily outperform Israel, according to the Economic Freedom Network). Note that I'm not challenging the conclusion, but the singular source of evidence on a topic that is clearly going to be politically charged. | |
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| May 28, 2015 at 9:11 | history | edited | Online User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2015 at 9:04 | history | answered | Online User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |