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Israel Ranks above Spain, Italy and U.S. for Democracy in New Global Index
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) David Rose - The latest annual Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit puts Israel in 23rd place in the world out of 167 - above Italy, Spain and the U.S., and just behind France and Britain. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said the report amounts to a "stunning rebuttal" of Amnesty International's recent claim that Israel is an "apartheid state" and has been since its founding in 1948.