Arab-Israeli to represent Israel in Eurovision - with inevitable calls for her not to

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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7948494.stm

I think this is great actually. Good on her.

not quite on the topic, but why are israel part of eurovision? my geography is not great, but israels not in europe?

Oh I think its now countries bordering the Med or something. I remember reading this a few years ago when the Israeli trangender person won.