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Arab Kuwait evicted hundreds of thousands residents of Arab Palestinian origin
Arab Palestinians supported Saddam Hussein during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait
U.S. led coalition liberated Kuwait from Arab Iraq's occupation
No right of citizens to change government
Women discrimination

Compare Freedom Score of Kuwait (Partly Free) and Israel (Free)
Source: Freedom House (PDF, 187 KB)

Compare Human Development Index of Kuwait (0.839) and Israel (0.905) (PDF, 670 KB)
Source: United Nations Human Development Report 2003

Compare Corruption Index of Kuwait (5.5), Israel (7.3), Germany (7.3) and USA (7.7)
Source: Transparency International (PDF, 1.8 MB)

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Kuwait - 2001 (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of U.S. Department of State): "Citizens do not have the right to change their Government ... Women are denied the right to vote (see Section 3). Their testimony is not given equal weight to that of men in the family courts (see Section 1.e.). Married women require their husbands' permission to obtain a passport (see Section 2.d.). By law only men are able to confer citizenship; therefore, children born to citizen mothers and stateless fathers are themselves stateless."

Library of Congress's Country Studies (Kuwait)
CIA World Factbook (Kuwait)