Yoav Segev, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service: Israel wins place in Eurovision finals with Jewish-Arab duet
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Title:Great, but a distortion of the real conditions.
Name:Gray
City: State: Germany
Not to blame the artists for this, who present an encouraging move to the world, but this will lead many viewers to see Israel as a nation where different cultures as accepted and integrated. Of course, the total opposite is true! There is widespread, even legalized, discimination of Arab Israelis, most evident in the segregation at public schools, a policy that is more typical of an Apartheid state. This is something Eurovision viewers should know, so they get not carried away by the positive example of the artists. One swallow doesn`t make a summer, and one mixed duo isn`t evidence of Israelis and Arabs having the same rights.