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Eurovision: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez calls for Israel to be banned - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by mannycalavera@feddit.uk to c/eurovision@lemmy.world

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Is the EBU going to ban Spain do you think?

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I have always found it odd that Israel plays in UEFA European tournaments in football/soccer and yet Jordan, Lebanon, etc do not.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not like they can play in 90% of the Asian countries to be fair
I believe lots of countries "in the middle" choose their continent. I know it's the case for Russia and Turkey at least. Depending on the sports they'll go be small fish in a big pond to improve or get paid more (UEFA typically is more interesting than other football leagues) or big fishes in a small pond, where they can get nice placements and, where relevant, qualify for the Olympics more easily.
(Would still be nice to have Eurovision be European, though.)

[–] Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not like they can play in 90% of the Asian countries to be fair

And why is that?

I know it’s the case for Russia and Turkey at least.

THAT is when the idea is debatable. Because they have such close history with what they define as europe and have part of their territory within the defined land borders. How Azerbaizan and Armenia qualify god knows. If Lebanon and Syria don't qualify regardless of their desires, then neither should be Israel.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 9 minutes ago

Lebanon is allowed to participate. They don't, probably because it's too expensive and not worth it for them.

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Odd doesn't begin to describe bribery in attempt to boost public image

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

+1 for Lebanon, and even Syria should be included

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Lebanon is already allowed to compete (their national broadcaster Télé-Liban is a full EBU member) as is Egypt (National Media Authority), Algeria (Etablissement Public de Télévision Algérienne) and Tunisia (Télévision tunisienne). They just opt not to.

See https://www.ebu.ch/about/members

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

In this thread we are talking about inclusion in UEFA vs AFC vs CAF, not Eurovision. Lebanon is in the AFC, Egypt is in the CAF.