My personal opinion is that it was rigged in order to whitewash what is happening in Israel. Not a single person I've talked to actually liked the song either. It would be very interesting if we could get some independent researchers to do a survey of the people who voted by phone to see if the majority actually did vote for Israel.
Israel has become a brutal and intolerant occupation force. The Israeli head of the Ministry of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, wants genocide. They shoot demonstrators and journalists with live ammunition. They make laws where throwing a rock is punishable by 20 years in prison while they themselves can legally shoot people who throw said rock. The youth of Israel have gown up to become fanatics with the mentality of terrorists who think killing civilians is an acceptable strategy.
Our collective European vote for Israel in the Eurovision contest was a vote for more of this:
Personally I highly doubt that people watching a song contests that is about diversity and unity would do this. So I have to conclude that it was rigged, or people simply don't know. This is a reasonable explanation considering that the government of many European countries are so afraid of what comes out about Israel that they're willing to censor even YouTube videos. Not long ago an interview by Abby Martin concerning this was censored by many European countries, including the UK, France and Germany to name a few.
Meanwhile, China gets banned from even watching Eurovision because they censored the rainbow flag. On which planet does this make sense? Are we really pretending we're okay with this turn of events?
Bottom line is, Israel is a Fascist regime, and that Netta could stand on that stage and proclaim "I love my country" to cheering crowds is extremely unsettling. How complacent have we become when we allow this to happen? I for one was not aware that the Nazis won the war, but it seems like they did, since now we're apparently all believing the holocaust didn't happen and it's not happening now either.
Since when are people who throw rocks at occupying soldiers terrorists while soldiers who shoot civilians and politicians who call for genocide not?
I for one will continue to boycott Israel, and I hope all the good people of Europe will do the same so there will be no Eurovision in Israel next year.