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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I don't recall groups of Mancs carpet bombing any hospitals or obliterating entire cities in retribution to be fair so I don't see how this is a helpful comparison, other than to point out that many nations have experienced terrorist catastrophes and not used it as justification for the careless bombing of civilians.

Anyway... I've gone over why the standalone number is irrelevant as a statistic in the absence of a directly opposite choice in the Eurovision threads but that doesn't really matter here: if you're right and the vote reflects people separating "Israeli individuals from Israeli state" (as I agree, everyone absolutely should, for all nations) it's still or perhaps even more disingenuous to imply that the Eurovision vote demonstrates widespread public approval for Israel's military/political actions.

And thus, has no bearing on the simple fact that international support for Israel (as a state) is potentially at an all-time low. Which was really my main point.

As I have already explained no one said there was widespread approval for Israels actions, the positive vote was for a 20 year old girl bullied by people who jump on the latest bandwagon which happens at the moment to be be Palestine

and the comparison with Manchester is very appropriate, she was bullied because she had sympathy with those Israelis killed..how very dare she have empathy for people from her country