Many countries in the Middle East and around the world suffer several consequences due to their lack of flow of information. Israel, however, seems to be the exception in the Middle East.
Israel, with a population in 2010 of about 7,300,000 had an internet user percentage of about 71.6%. Other countries in the Middle East, such as Iraq, who has over four times the population size of Israel, had an internet user percentage of only 1.1% in 2010.
Due to the high number of people living in Israel that have regular access to the internet, Israel has become the exception to the suppression of political and social information in the Middle East. The people living in Israel have access to the free flow of information, and currently Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a democratic government. This free flow of information definitely encourages the spread of such democracy throughout the country.
Most other countries in the Middle East reported an internet user percentage of less than 50%.
-information collected from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats5.htm
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