It’s nice when a genocidal war criminal can take a break from murdering women and children do he can juice a meaningless talent show. Sure to be a Hallmark movie about it, soon.
Kevin M. (RPCV) On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The Israeli prime minister went on Instagram a few minutes before the > final of the Eurovision Song Contest started to tell viewers and radio > listeners to vote for Yuval Raphael's "New Day Will Rise," the Israeli > entry, and vote the maximum twenty times (since you have to have a valid > credit card or debit card to vote online, that would set you back around 20 > euros, roughly a little over $20 in US currency)--other Israeli social > media accounts joined in and the government bought ad time on YouTube--the > song did win the so-called "televote" but did not win the whole thing, due > to being far down the list of the votes of the industry panels from each > European Broadcasting Union member country (their choice, the song from > Austria, "Wasted Love" by JJ and his ultra falsetto, won, but > barely)--needless to say, some EBU members are calling for an investigation > and to have Israel kicked out of future Eurovisions, as Russia was kicked > out in 2023 after they invaded the Ukraine: > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/arts/music/eurovision-israel-votes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.37wA.PktpET56Dd5W&smid=url-share > > What Netanyahu may have forgotten is that the winner's reward, other than > the publicity, is hosting Eurovision next year. Unless Gaza gets settled > (yeah, like that's gonna happen), there are a lot of people who might've > decided that they have better things to do in May 2026 than go to Tel Aviv > for Eurovision. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29d0f37d-c29a-4555-88e4-ef59b5d0f519n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29d0f37d-c29a-4555-88e4-ef59b5d0f519n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AtZVjxZNYfYAmuGXaCuY7VGOH7TamQ_A3amryhgB%3D2jg%40mail.gmail.com.
