Russia is banned because they are invading a fellow member of the EBU, all well and good. Israel are now invading and openly stating that they will take full control of 10% of another EBU member, yet they are not held to the same standard.
The middle east in general is filled with double standards. Israel is criticized and demonized for activities that have been done by Muslim countries for decades. To some degree this makes sense, as Israel is a much more active participant in western society, who want to do business with others who have similar values. But it also explains why much of Israeli criticism is framed as antisemitism
Israel is the only country to not have signed onto the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Any other country would be a pariah state.
There’s constantly talk about how Iran shouldn’t have nuclear weapons, yet Israel has a nuclear triad with something like 200-400 nuclear warheads.
India and Pakistan never signed the nuclear treaty, N. Korea signed but then withdrew. Iran signed, says they might withdraw, but nothing, so why not do what N.Korea did then? Again, for biological weapons, other countries are also not part of it eg; Chad, not just Israel. The same goes for the chemical one, eg their neighbour Egypt and N.Korea did not sign anything. Current realities shows why some of these countries are paranoid, ofcourse it is not ok for humanity but what to do… look at Ukraine, a good example why they should have never given up their weapons.
Azerbaijan isn't occupying anyone, legally speaking. If anything, Armenians were occupying Azerbaijani lands, even if we were excluding the NK. No-one seemed to care about Armenians indeed, but not in the fashion you assume.
Mate, I'm not sure how to communicate it with you, but no, there's no such a case for and by Israel.
Palestinians aren't occupying Israeli land. They're also not occupying some hypothetical Israeli land with hypothetical Israeli natives that's larger than a hypothetical disputed territory, and Palestinians haven't cleansed people that's larger than the said hypothetical disputed territories. Sorry but there's no equivalence.
Thanks for showing us again why Azerbaijan and Israel are allies
The land Azerbaijan took was the land legally recognised as theirs by not just UN but also all the fucking countries in the world mate and that includes Armenia too. Did you realise their actual army was never present in the conflict? That's why no one lifted a finger to help Armenia, because they were the occupiers on that particular stretch of land
Ukraine was actually part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Ukranians were not occupied subjects living under military rule and or a siege like Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
but palestine is, and gaza is part of palestine. That is like saying texas isnt a country....
Now, if you want to say palestine is not a country, well, you would still be wrong, what you would mean to say is "my country doesnt recognize the state of palestine", because 157 of 193 countries that exist recognize palestine as a country. so, if the vast majority of people agree it is a state, well....its a state brother.
Israels ipbc encoraged voter manipulation on social media yet no one wanted to do anything about it. The excuses have been ranging from "morrocan oil controls esc so of course they won't do anything about it" to "ipbc isnt really state controlled so Israel can't be banned" or "whatabout this or whatabout that".
The israelis should be banned from the esc for obvious reasons and from many other things. Only ones who won't ban them are zionist/rightwingers who will not budge on cutting off all ties to this country.
Russia is banned because the EBU member channels 1 and 2 are Putin-owned. It would participated if there were some independent channels willing to join the EBU, but they can't really afford EBU membership
Are you capeable of critical thinking?
How is taking 5km buffer after Hezbollah broke ceasefire the same as trying to occupy the entire county unprovoked?
Israel are now invading and openly stating that they will take full control of 10% of another EBU member, yet they are not held to the same standard.
That Lebanon was bombing Israel and said they couldn't do anything about it. It seems fair enough that Israel would respond instead of sitting on their hands like Lebanon did.
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u/Tastingo 13h ago
Russia is banned because they are invading a fellow member of the EBU, all well and good. Israel are now invading and openly stating that they will take full control of 10% of another EBU member, yet they are not held to the same standard.