• mynachmadarch@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    I haven’t heard it at all so I can’t comment, but I do know they were forced to re-write it pretty late in the game to turn down the more obvious anti-palastine political messages in it after several countries threatened to boycott this year. It might have already sucked, haven’t heard either version, but a late re-write changing it can’t have helped.

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        6 months ago

        The original was titled “October Rain” (a reference to an October Hamas attack),
        had lyrics like:
        Hours and hours
        and flowers
        Life is no game for the cowards (most I’ve heard felt it in context to be saying screw Palestine, they started it and hide in their holes killing, let’s bomb them all)

        And the Israeli delegate to Eurovision (the board member guy, not the artist) said they were sending a song all Israelis could connect to.

        So yeah, my albeit western interpretation is it was very anti-palastine, pro-israel

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          6 months ago

          Regardless of the interpretation, that’s pretty tone-deaf of them (no pun intended) if they thought that was going to win them the competition.

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              6 months ago

              Very true, although I don’t know that Netanyahu would be doing this if he were a person who believed in the Jewish god. I’m not saying Yaweh is peaceful, but the modern Jewish interpretation of Yaweh doesn’t usually include “he wants you to commit genocide” despite what the Bible might say about the Amalekites or Egyptian children.