CL, that’s how our world is though. We don’t have any other. Israel fares pretty well not only compared to its immediate neighbors, but also compared to the global average. Esp. if we don’t forget that this page itself is a ridiculous exaggeration, because relatively free democracies can at times be unfair and at times xenophobic (esp. to non-citizens), which doesn’t mean they’re not free democracies overall, unless one has some ideal in mind, in which case there are no free democracies in this world.