With a Song in the Heart of Israel: Eurovision to be held in Tel Aviv has produced an outcry

American Thinker ^ | 02/07/2019 | Michael Curtis

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Without a song, the day would never end; the road would never bend. In the purple dusk of twilight time, the music is a beautiful melody that haunts one's reverie. Yet the news that the Eurovision song contest (Eurovision) will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel has produced an outcry from the usual suspects, unrelentingly hostile toward the State of Israel.

Participants in the annual contest, more than 50 countries, primarily but not confined to members of the European Broadcasting Union, submit an original song to be performed on live TV or over the radio. The contest has been won three times by Israel since it first participated in 1973.

In 2018, the contest, held in Lisbon, was won by Netta Barzilai of Israel, who performed in unconventional dress her song "Toy," accompanied by her chicken dance, a song of female independence that she said was influenced by the #MeToo movement and women searching for and finding their voices.

According to the rules of the contest, Israel was therefore entitled to host the 2019 contest on May 18, 2019, in which 49 countries will participate. It is expected to attract 20,000 tourists, and among the performers will be Madonna, who has appeared a number of times in Israel. The original intention of Israeli authorities was to hold it in Jerusalem, but in view of political controversy over the city, the government compromised and agreed that it would be held in Tel Aviv.

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The Israeli symbol of the contest is formed by a union of three triangles, to emphasize the power of union and harmony of diverse elements. However, the usual suspects, refusing to accept this gesture of goodwill, began a campaign to prevent Israel being the host country, using a number of open letters in the British newspaper The Guardian. Though no objective individual is likely to perceive any logical connection between songs stealing across the meadows of one's heart in Tel Aviv performed by artists from many countries and unrelated Israeli public policy, the critics insist that the basic issue for removing the Eurovision contest from Israel is systematic violation of Palestinian human rights, land theft evictions, shootings, beatings, and worse by security forces. On September 7, 2018, The Guardian published a letter from 141 "artists from Europe," calling for the contest to be moved from Israel. Apparently, somewhere there's music, however faint the tune, but not in Israel.

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[Berlin_Freeper]

Netta - TOY - Israel - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2018
https://youtu.be/CziHrYYSyPc

[Kriggerel]

Paging Roger Waters...

Roger Waters to the white courtesy phone, please...

Blah blah blah... “Occupied Palestine” blah blah blah...

(Wish it WAS /sarc)

...but of course, it’s *NOT* about t3h j0000z...

(actual /sarc)

[hanamizu]

“...women searching for and finding their voices.”

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In my years on the planet, I’ve found that most women, and girls for that matter, have no trouble “finding their voices”.

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[faithhopecharity]

personally I have zero interest in “eurovision”... couldn’t care less

but..
yes, this report does illustrate the anti-God orientation of parts of Europe (it is not ONLY the IslamoNazi and residual ThirdReichNazis, alas!.. its too easy to blame them Alone when there are some “regular” people that follow, support, endorse, or do nothing to stop...this kind of vile, Satanic hate coming from their countries)

I figure God is testing each of us, as well as each of our nations...(and some are, alas, flunking out royally). Genesis 12:3

[Ezekiel]

Song contests.

"Dare to Dream"

It's a parallel to the 17 YO young man who was hated for his MAGA dreams, taunted by the "brothers" [Black Hebrew Israelites].

Insight and vision flow out of pop culture and politics while no one seems to know what time it is.

Mr Sandmann bring me a dream...

MAGA: Make Ariel Great Again

Have any of the usual suspects noticed that Eurovision ends with Sion? Obviously it was a plot all along, like with that London Olympics logo. :-)

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I watched the Eurovision finals last year and that girl’s song was terrible. The fact that such drivel was even allowed in the contest, much less judged the winner, is pretty good proof that the Eurovision countries are fair minded even if a few individuals aren’t.

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RE: I watched the Eurovision finals last year and that girl’s song was terrible.

Yes, the Empress had no clothes, but only a few noticed.