I agree with a lot of your points. Among them, uc the warcriminal #Netanyahu Regime is in power and waging war on its neighbors, all war parties should be excluded from the #ESC.
This is the reason, however, not geographical and plate tectonics. 😉
The reason is that from a legal perspective, the state of Israel is legally entitled to participate. I found out about this when I researched why #Palestine could not participate. Here's why:
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#Eurovision #Eurovision2024
#Music #Israel #Palestine
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If #Palestine should be able to compete in the #ESC ist an interesting, but still maybe the wrong question.
"In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, the Guardian has admitted it has been – even according to its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year.
Remember that when editor Kath Viner comes cap in hand once again, as she did this week, begging for money from readers for her brand of supposedly “fearless, independent journalism”.
It's not the World Court, non-western states, rights groups and Palestinians who have been using the term genocide 'too lightly'. It's the Guardian that's reached the same conclusion far, far too late
“#Israel has sent 'rescue planes' to Amsterdam after locals came after and attacked numerous Israeli 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' fans for tearing down Palestinian flags, chanting "F*ck Palestine," and mocking dead children in #Gaza ….
Israeli 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' fans did not only tear down Palestinian flags and chant violent slogans against Arabs – they also reportedly refused to respect the moment of silence held for the #Valencia flood victims and intentionally interrupted it”
Amsterdamned: 👉Rassistisches Juden-Pogrom in den Niederlanden👈
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...lässt laut seinem Büro Rettungsflugzeuge für verletzte Fans in die Niederlande schicken..."
Die #israelische Fluggesellschaft El Al teilte mit, um 14 Uhr Ortszeit starte ein erster Rettungsflug aus #Amsterdam Richtung #Israel...Hunderte israelische Fans sollen auf diesem Wege nach Hause gebracht werden.
👉Das Außenministerium riet zugleich, keine jüdischen oder israelischen...
"With the ‘west’ distracted by the US presidential election, #Israel has announced the complete partition of northern #Gaza – and has designated the hundreds of thousands of civilians still living there as combatants and therefore targets."
"The United Nations estimate that there are still 400,000 civilians besieged in northern Gaza, where no food has been allowed to enter for over a month and refugee camps and hospitals have been relentlessly bombed."
Israeli media carry report, ignored by UK ‘msm’ With the ‘west’ distracted by the US presidential election, Israel has announced the complete partition of northern Gaza R…
If you are wondering what kind of messages -mala was sending to encourage people to vote for her, literally telling she will continue to support genocide into the future.
These motherfuckers (and Zionists/Fascists like Bernie who were telling everyone he will push her "left", who supported Half-dead Nazi zombie too to push him "left") are the one's who were telling everyone they will stop genocide & people should trust them.
#Israel PM Benjamin #Netanyahu announced the dismissal of his defense minister late Tues, saying trust between the two men “has eroded” in recent months. Yoav Gallant had emerged as one of Netanyahu’s fiercest & most public critics over the war in #Gaza & the failure to reach a hostage deal with #Hamas.
"Yes, the UN can suspend Israel over its Treatment of Palestinians"
"The South Africa precedent "At the start of each annual general assembly session, the credentials committee reviews submissions from each member state before they are formally admitted.
"Usually, this is a formality, but on September 27 1974, the credentials of South Africa – which was then operating an apartheid system – were rejected."
Report: "Prof Haim Bresheeth’s anti-genocide speech before he was arrested for ‘terrorism’":
Bresheeth was arrested by UK Police as he spoke to the weekly anti-genocide demonstration sponsored by anti-genocide Jewish groups outside Israeli Ambassador Hotovely's house.
Hotovely has attempted to justify Israel’s flattening of Gaza & mass killing of civilians & "is feted by the government of Keir Starmer."
Jewish Israeli academic was arrested for this as Starmer government’s assault on anti-genocide speech continues As Skwawkbox reported on Friday night, Israeli Jewish academic Prof Haim Breshe…
The Israeli government is actively working to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a UN agency providing essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees who are entitled to return to their land.
Report: Over 100 BBC staff wrote a letter to the BBC, accusing it of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza & lacking "accurate evidence-based journalism”.
In addition, more than 200 media-industry workers, historians, actors, academics & politicians signed the letter.
The letter said that "Israel must be held to account for its actions & that failing to do so dehumanises Palestinians."
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#Israel -i soldiers are so used to genocide that some of them are surprised that they can be identified online by the videos they themselves post of their crimes in #Gaza
Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking with Peter Beinart about his time visiting the Occupied West Bank:
“Israel is not a democracy. I thought I was gonna go over there and see some really morally complex stuff, but I didn’t. I mean, it was so obviously immoral. It’s blatantly immoral.”
"There's something dark here beyond Israel itself that I think is really, really hard to face."
21K likes, 437 comments - peter_beinart on October 28, 2024: "Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking with Peter Beinart about his time visiting the Occupied West Bank:
“Israel is not a democracy.
This is why #Israel kills the medically trained. Everything to destroy as many people as possible. Gaza is an extermination camp like Ausswitz, Sobibor and Mauthausen. Only the method is different!
Bernie is a disgusting zionist apologist. The genocide against Palestinians has been going on for 75 years and Bernie has voted for every single bomb used against the Indigenous people of Palestine. Bernie insults the intelligence of anyone who opposes #Kamalaharris - We've heard her repeat over & over she'll support everything sociopathic thing Israel does. The problem isnt Netanyahu, it's #Israel . AFTER THE ELECTION YOU'LL RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THIS #GENOCIDE ?? That takes gaslighting to a whole another level!! Fuck off Bernie- you and the #democrats are traitors to humanity !!
Microsoft fired employee Hossam Nasr for organising a vigil for commemorating the lives of Palestinians killed by #Israel in #Gaza. Even expressing sadness over a genocide is against Microsoft’s rules.
Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas.
"Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation."
Middle East crisis live: #Israel passes law banning UN refugee agency in #Gaza from operating inside Israel
“The legislation to ban Unrwa from operating inside Israel, passed by the Knesset just minutes ago, deals a huge blow to the UN agency, which has provided essential aid and assistance across Palestinian territories and to Palestinian refugees elsewhere for more than seven decades.” theguardian.com/world/live/202…
"We are deeply concerned by Netflix’s decision to delete at least 19 films by Palestinian filmmakers or about Palestinian stories from your platform last week — on October 13th and October 14th."
When a young American #Jewish woman, Simone Zimmerman - who has been raised to support #Israel unconditionally - witnesses the way Israel treats Palestinians, it transforms her life.
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in alignment with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and under international law, reserves its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time,”...
I always ask myself whether these people are still capable of logical thinking? If this Israeli airstrike was criminal, what was the Iranian one? If the Iranian one was a justified retaliation in his way of thinking, why is the retaliation of the retaliation criminal? Why are such people tolerated in the #government?
The #unitedkingdom military won’t have to be the commandants of Israel’s new concentration camps for #Gaza because private #UK military contractors — who will be accountable to no one but their shareholders — will run the private prisons.
-mala was sending to encourage people to vote for her, literally telling she will continue to support genocide into the future.
