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To: TimF who wrote (217820)	2/7/2005 2:20:51 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575421

The audit breaks group 2 off from group 3 just above Israel. Israels rank is closer to Italy's (the lowest group 1 country), or even to the average rank of the teir one countries, or to the US than it is to than it is to a number of countries listed in its group. Its still down there in terms of its press freedom.....an important element in a free society. And all of this neglects to consider the possibility of bias against Israel in the rankings. Even if we assume there is not a drop of bias against Israel we still are confrunted with the fact that there is no clear explination of how the ranks are determined which makes them close to useless. Why would you assume a bias against Israel? On some things, Israel ranks fairly high. Its the press freedom rating that hurt it most. I am not sure what you want but under each heading, they provide a checklist of items that are looked at when coming up for a rating for a country in the category. I do notice that on the same site as your link it lists Israel as among the most free countries 38 out of 150-200 countries is hardly a terrible rating. And on some categories like civil liberties it ranks fairly high. However, the high, free press rating is troublesome. ted