Cav's Place

Last year I was saying that it was easy to boycott Eurovision, since Romania wasn’t participating or broadcasting on TV and watching live on-line wouldn’t have been feasible when I had to get ready for that year’s half marathon, which was taking place the following morning. And the lack of participation or TV broadcast remains true this year, but the competition taking place a week later means that I could have watched it live on-line. But, of course, I still won’t, and I also still won’t write what used to be my usual posts, since the reason for the boycott, the fact that Israel continues to be allowed to participate despite the continuing war crimes, ethnic cleansing and undoubtedly genocidal actions against Palestinians, remains valid, in fact being even more so than last year. And, with the plan to conquer and destroy Gaza having now been approved and openly announced, the situation is certain to only worsen even further.
There are opinions stating that the EBU has a mission to protect public broadcasters, especially when they’re in conflict with the authorities and in danger, as is the case even now in Israel, so they feel that they must continue to support the broadcaster, possibly even taking it as an act against the government, at least as long as the sort of ultimatums that resulted in banning Russia and Belarus won’t be put forward by the other participants… And the fact that those ultimatums still don’t exist is a major problem in itself, but I definitely won’t take any of it as a suitable explanation. Well, not unless the Israeli entry would be one that actually would criticize the government’s actions and/or support Palestinians, at least in some roundabout way that’d pass the competition’s censorship rules. And that’s definitely not the case, in fact quite the contrary, or at least that’s what I gathered.
Either way, I want to mention that FalastinVision is taking place this year as well, and while I still won’t actually watch it, I will once again replace my usual posts about Eurovision with one about that, which I’ll probably write next week, after listening to all of the songs properly, since so far I only listened to the four that didn’t make it into the final… And I must say that, with one possible exception, I wonder why they didn’t make it, and I’m quite sure that I’ll be baffled by quite a number of the finalists being there instead of them. Not that it makes that much sense to even leave so few songs out at all, so I wonder why didn’t they just let all of them compete all the way to the end. But, out of those four, I really want to point out The Liveless Life, which struck me as particularly good, and the heartbreaking story behind it should have also counted for something…