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It scored 2 for military expenditures as a percent of GDP. Doing so obscures the fact that it spends more than all other nations combined.
It got 2.5 as an exporter of major conventional weapons when, in fact, it's the world's leading arms provider.
GPI couldn't hide America's record, but did its best to soften it, coming down harder on nations with no power to object.
Breakdown of Israel's GPI Score
Justifiably, Israel ranked 144, besting only Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq in descending order, Iraq ranking last, but Afghanistan is just as bad or worse.
On individual categories, it's another story. Israel got 2.5 on number of external and internal conflicts fought when, in fact, it wages daily war against Palestine, occasional ones against neighbors, and more than ever persecutes its 20% Arab population, including violently. That rates 5 by any standard.
On number of displaced people as a percent of population, ignored are 9.8 million Palestinian refugees, what the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BRC) calls "the largest and longest-standing case of forced displacement in the world today." An earlier article discussed life in Palestinian refugee camps, accessed through the following link:
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