Talk:Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Why Israel is in the contest? It´s not in Europe. 88.114.42.128 (talk) 13:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Israel is part of the European broadcasting area which stretches on Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Caucasus. The EBU is European not in the geographical sense, but in respect of this random international convention of broadcasting areas. For many years Israel was the only non-European country which took part in the contest regularly (if we consider Turkey and Cyprus to be within Europe). Then again, Morocco tried its luck in 1980 and decided to quit for good. Today many countries in the Caucasus which recently joined the EBU take part in the contest. Lebanon also wanted to join it, but withdrew due to political reason: it refused to broadcast the Israeli song, a thing which is a violation of the rules. DrorK (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
