Anti-Semites? Who, Us?

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Here’s a list of the nations in the Middle East in alphabetical order. Each has their freedom rated in Political Rights and Civil Liberties (1 is the most free and 8 is the most oppressed). These ratings were done by the unbiased group Freedom House at:

http://www.freedomhouse.org/research.../countries.htm

As you can see there was only one country in the entire Middle East that has the status of “Free” and that nation is Israel.

Algeria
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free

Bahrain
Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free

Egypt
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free

Iran
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free

Iraq
Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 5* Status: Not Free

Israel
Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free

Jordan
Political Rights: 5* Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free

Kuwait
Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free

Lebanon
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free

Libya
Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 7 Status: Not Free

Morocco
Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free

Oman
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free

Qatar
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free

Saudi Arabia
Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 7 Status: Not Free

Syria
Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 7 Status: Not Free

Tunisia
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free

United Arab Emirates
Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6* Status: Not Free

Yemen
Political Rights: 5* Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Partly Free