Re: ISRAEL 2019
We are in Israel, we are entering an election year, so the current government is trying to cut every single coupon it can for its campaign. Then the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem, there was an attempt to transfer a soccer game between Israel and Argentina that tried to move to Jerusalem and that failed, the entire ruling party
The Minister of Communications, the Minister of Culture and the Prime Minister himself, tried to exert pressure to put the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. Fortunately for us, the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel. There is an international supervisor who sees this and sets an ultimatum. Which the prime minister is trying to implement. But his ministers can not resist the temptation of political capital.
And sometimes it's funny / sad to think that if the Eurovision Song Contest arrives in Jerusalem in the end, they will take credit for it instead of those who really deserve credit for the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, which was forgotten last year.
Even if this is destroyed, they will not lose because the ultra-Orthodox Knesset members are in the government. Opposed to the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, because of desecration of the Sabbath and such ...
They just host it in their capital like many other countries do, there is no rule you need to host it in the largest city anyways (Malmö 2013 calling!). People who have problem with it are the ones dragging politics into it, from Israel's side it's a natural choice.
