Same question for Morocco, Australia, Egypt …
Actually, I know the answer (since I googled it 
). It’s to do with membership of the European Broadcasting Union, whatever that is. ?
Well done the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia for boycotting Eurovision because of Israhell
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I never knew that … which goes to show you can teach an old dog new tricks. 
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I beg to differ. Year after year we are presented with the absolute bottom end of musical offerings.
The event is frequently used as a political bun fight. The performers are so bad it hurts my eyes as well as ears.
I don’t care who goes and who doesn’t go because I won’t be watching.
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I’m kinda of the opinion (regarding the song contest) matching Groucho Marx about being a member of a club 
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It has become a pretty excruciating spectacle hasn’t it … and each year seems to get longer and longer.
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Reruns of it could be put on a repeat loop and played to hardened criminals 24/7. I suspect it’d be a greater deterrent than any other torture or death sentence.
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Now that is a brilliant idea … and anywhere where you needed a deterrent or wanted a crowd to disperse.
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I’ve been boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest for more than 5 decades.
When I was a teenager, it was very “uncool” to like a Eurovision song entry - most of them were quite naff and repetitive “catchy tunes”
From the snippets of news I’ve heard in the last few decades about the biased voting, I can’t see the point of it - it seems to create more competitive ill-feeling than good relationships between the competing countries.
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With rare exception, the concept of “music” seems to have boycotted the contest for a few decades.
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I have to agree …some of the entries are horrendous …pure punishment on the ears.
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That’s simply inhumane
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I agree with keeping the politics out of it. Otherwise it seeds fatigue against the cause, whatever that might be.
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Obviously there is so much bad feeling and even hate between some of the countries competing, that it has long since defeated the object of what it was originally intended to do.
Same as the EU has done to Europe.
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With all due respect Swimmy, the IRA and Ireland situation is completely different to the strife in the middle east.
How can you possibly chastise Israel for their response when the British (sometimes aided by the Americans) have done far worse over the centuries…A tad hypocritical I think.
No matter how much love and peace you bestow on the world…You will never get different races, religions, etc to live side by side in peace and harmony for long. Humans are not fundamentally built like that. Even when they move to another country they group together and form their own communities. I’m not saying they don’t mix, to a point, but no matter how much the establishment forces them to coexist using diversity as an excuse, it just causes resentment. At some time in history, just about every country in Europe has fought each other…And some scars are long to heal…
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It’s hard keeping schtum at times.
Discipline 007, discipline.
Spaceman should have won, if it wasn’t for geopolitics!
I don’t often disagree with you Foxy but Israel’s actions in Gaza are indefensible, and nothing short of a massacre.
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This might rank as one of the most dismal posts I think I’ve seen.
First, regardless of “we did worse once” claim, denouncing Israel’s atrocities in Gaza is correct. There is no justification for their actions. Half defending them with “something worse once happened” is no defence at all. Worse, it creates the excuse for future atrocities…
But even more damning, your claim is without merit. Have look at the below link. Show me things the UK has done that are worse that the genocide in Gaza. It is not there. Certainly the UK, along with other colonial powers, did commit horrible acts - but genocide such as in Gaza, on the scale of Gaza, is simply not there.
That’s what makes life interesting Morty, we all have different views and opinions.
Without delving into the why’s and wherefores…Which this thread is not about…
I will just say this…
If I had an army and was the leader of a country, and a bunch of terrorists kidnapped, raped and killed a couple of hundred innocent citizens who were enjoying a music festival, I would not stop rooting them out, by any means, until they had all been destroyed together with the people who protected them.
And that’s my last word on the subject…
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Throughout the IRA’s campaign there were arrests, army presence and oppression but not mass bombing of civilians hiding terrorists
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