Last blog on Palestine...

Hi all!
I had mentioned this to Katrinka, and she thought it a good idea for me to post it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7948494.stm

It's a BBC article about how Israel is being represented by an Israeli Jew AND an Israeli Arab at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 (it is a European song contest, started in 1956, where each country chooses a song to represent it and they have a competition where they decide the "best song of Europe", and the winning country organises the contest next year... it's been happening for 53 years, now).
Anyway, the Arab singer has been getting a lot of backlash from the Palestinians for representing Israel in the contest and the article talks about those things and her reaction to it.

Btw, it's a big deal in Israel since Eurovision is the world's biggest non-sporting TV event in the world and it's important in many European counries - it's estimated that some 200-600 million people watch it world-wide every year; so one can understand why there would be a lot of discussion about it.

Ok.... that's all!
Cheers!