Israel has improved on that ranking, while the USA became worse.

And sure, Israel isn’t a perfect democracy, but it is certainly one.

My ass is apparently a well respected scientific ranking with a published methodology.

The OP is just straight up demonization and antisemitic Holocaust comparison.

It’s not a criticism of policies.

I was talking about before October 7th 2023.

You should learn more about the Holocaust. This is nothing like it.

Oh those silly misleading maps again.

In 1946 all the territory was under British rule as the British Mandate for Palestine. Palestinian was no separate identity back then. There were Palestinian Arabs and Jews. Lots of Jews called themselves or their organizations Palestinian like their newspaper, orchestras, or airlines.

The green marked area encompasses not only land privately owned by Muslim, Druze, Christians, but also all state owned land. The orange is only privately owned Jewish land. So this is very misleading labeling.

The 1947 partition plan was rejected by Arab Palestinians. They didn’t want it. It was never implemented. The Jewish state was assigned the bigger territory, however a huge part of that was the mostly uninhabitable Negev desert in the south.

The 1949-1968 map is also incorrectly labeled. Gaza was occupied by Egypt and the West Bank was annexed by Jordan.

The only time Palestinian land is actually ruled by Palestinians is on the last map.

The whole map completely disregards the native Druze, Samaritans, and Bedouins.

The Israeli state doesn’t encourage settlement of Gaza.

The NYT article contains no mention of ambulances or medical staff. Do you have a source?

However every military organization has medics. They are protected under international law if they don’t participate in fighting and wear a visible identification.

Palestinians have failed to build a functioning democracy for themselves. They aren’t even politically united under one banner since Hamas took power in Gaza. Palestinians can’t even make peace among themselves.

Israel doesn’t want Gaza’s territory. It wants to be left alone by Gaza. Hence the unilateral withdrawal almost 20 years ago.

Israel can buy weapons from Europe, India, Korea, China just as well. Hell even Russia and Turkey might sell them some stuff. It also has a robust domestic weapons industry and lots of talented engineers.

Blaming Jews for antisemitism is antisemitic in itself. Classic.

There’s a difference between hating a state’s existence and hating its policies.

The Holocaust comparison is antisemtic.

You are right, that you didn’t directly state you wanted the destruction of Israel. I read it in the subtext.

Israel’s support in the west has declined over the war in Gaza for sure. However if its existence were threatened support would skyrocket.

Israel still has lots of friends despite the way they are behaving. The consequences for Israel so far have been some minor sanctions.

If Israel were attacked on a large scale now, it would absolutely get support by the USA, Germany, India, and other Western countries.

Who do you expect to pose a military threat to Israel? Jordan and Egypt aren’t interested in a war and are occupied with stability at home. Syria is in shambles. Hezbollah is good at harassing Israel and defending against invasion, but no existential threat. A nuclear armed Iran is the biggest threat and Israel’s main adversary.

Maybe you can outline a scenario where you see Israel fall.

Houses can be rebuilt.

Getting different perspectives is very valuable for sure. You learn which inconvenient facts are left out by each side.

According to the world democracy index Israel is at 7.8, same as the USA. Palestine is listed as 3.5.