Eurovision…… can’t handle this 💩 anymore!

Thank you - know you’re being sarcastic but no harm in having a different opinion, life would be boring otherwise as you wouldn’t consider other points. Let’s be honest, we could be worse off in Palestine or Ukraine so let’s count our blessings.

Im Irish and I am glad that RTE has made this decision. I dont want my television licence fee to fund access to a competition that actively allows Israel to manipulate votes, harass contestants backstage and break the rules of the contest so blatantly.

If Russia cant compete, neither should Israel. Or any other country involved in sustained genocidal activities.

Well Palestinians appeared to be pretty okay with the actions of Hamas. Following 7th October Hamas were greeted like returning hero’s when parading their trophies through the streets in Gaza.

I don’t see why you’re asking me to explain the actions of Hamas - I’m not pro-Hamas and I believe that October 7th was an atrocity for which there is no justification, as I have made quite clear repeatedly on this thread.

It was quite clear from the start that October 7th would be catastrophic for Gazans. Hamas betrayed their own people by setting this spark.

My point is that Palestinian civilians have no say over what Hamas does and should not be made to pay Hamas’ actions with their children’s lives.

How Christian of you x

You don’t have to compromise yourself. All you need to do is switch channels. Don’t watch it. Problem solved.

Israel has completely gone past defending itself.

they have committed genocide and ethnic cleansing.

of course they shouldn’t compete.

and just don’t with the anti-semetism comments I’m far from it and sick and tired to death of being accused of it because I stand with Palestine.

Because some people can’t put mass murder to one side and enjoy a singing competition as easily as your good Christian self can.

Then why, if only a minority of Israelis were in danger, did Hamas do it at all then? Thats my question. Why do you think they kidnapped and murdered only a ‘minority’? What did they hope to achieve for the Palestinians? What was the end goal? The reality is that they didn’t do it to further a cause for the Palestinians, but just did it for the hell of it, took their trophies into Gaza, and then the Palestinians paid for it with their lives. All so unnecessary.

So we boycott TV because they show the Eurovision?

This wasn't pedantry because @EddyNeddy didn't say or imply that viewers would turn off the whole of TV.

Am I being pedantic 🤔

why don’t you go out there and support the cause? What are you doing for those poor wee kids? Just arguing with people on social media who don’t really mind a singer on TV? Maybe you should take a flight out and sort everything out before you start slandering people here. Good luck to you. Hope you save them all. Maybe drop by Sudan on the way home, bit of genocide going on there but no one really cares about them eh?

And do you think that everything Israel has done since makes another October 7th less likely? Sure, in the short-term, Hamas’ military capacity is wiped out, but a generation of Palestinian children have just spent two years living through unimaginable terror, with death and destruction raining from the sky, and they will blame that trauma in its entirety on Israel. Being bombed is a radicalising experience - you can’t bomb people out of wanting to kill you.

Everything that the Israelis experienced on October 7th, they have lived for 2 years - and at a far greater scale. Only a small minority of Israelis living in the border communities and at the Nova Festival were in real mortal danger on October 7th. But Gazans throughout the strip were in real mortal danger everyday for 2 years. However traumatised the Israelis are, the Palestinian civilians are a million times more. That is a fact. And it will inevitably lead to more attacks on Israelis that further radicalise them, and another radicalising cycle of violence.

Because some people can’t put mass murder to one side and enjoy a singing competition as easily as your good Christian self can.

See below posted a while ago. Nothing about children which you are so intent on.

Sorry, I must apologise, I read it too quickly. Your option should focus on the perpetrator and not the children before I’m called all sorts of names.

I support the Israeli people, I am of Christian belief. I have already said I do not support the acts of Israel in terms of being disproportionate and extreme. But I do think the Islamic Hamas are using their citizens as cannon fodder. I just don’t understand how a music competition is caught up in this.

Was it really? How? I thought I was being annoying and tedious but clearly not. Love all these free Palestine supporters jumping on a Eurovision post. Can you all not start your own post about the war? I’m sure there are numerous threads.

Was it really? How? I thought I was being annoying and tedious but clearly not. Love all these free Palestine supporters jumping on a Eurovision post. Can you all not start your own post about the war? I’m sure there are numerous threads.

Have you still not read my update? It was posted about 15 minutes ago but still you concentrate on the previous one which I acknowledged as not read properly.

So you don’t think that someone would be justified in murdering your child if your husband murdered their child? So why do dead Israeli babies justify dead Palestinian babies?

And so Hamas decided to kidnap, rape and murder some festival goers. For what? What did they honestly think it would achieve. They hid them under the hospitals and schools, and then just waited, with no plan. The only thing they asked for in the two years since is for the release of Palestinian prisoners, but that wasn’t the reason for the killings and kidnaps on Oct 7th. All that’s happened is thousands of dead Palestinians, and Hamas leaders becoming millionaires…

I can see why Israel ‘defended’ itself, which in this context would have been a day or two of bombing. What they have done is genocide.Sustained genocide over a period of years.

The criticism with Eurovision is that the second Russian troops stepped into Ukraine they were kicked out of Eurovision. But Israel have came close to winning twice now since the invasion of Palestine and it would have been the end of the contest. I love Eurovision and I believe Israel has a right to exist but it’s not hard to see the hypocrisy in the situation the contest has found itself in.

Why do you keep repeating that line without engaging with any of the responses you are getting? Do you seriously believe that ‘Hamas could have stopped it at any time’ justifies any and every human rights abuse committed against Palestinian civilians who had no ability to compel Hamas to do that?