I doubt whether the average Palestinian in Israel, stuck needlessly at a checkpoint for two days, would regard himself as free. Or the guy whose olive grove was wrecked so that the apartheid wall could be driven through his family farm. Or the parents of teenagers shot by remote-controlled unmanned rifles at the Gaza border. Or the Bedouins kicked out of their villages. Or the people driven off the best West Bank land in order for ever more illegal settlements to go up. Whether you're free or not depends on a little more than your country's ranking on a rather facile three-point scale.