Israeli Eurovision bid fails to qualify for song contest finals

and the band stunk. We lost as soon as the idiot Israeli selectors picked that group to represent the country.

When you are forced into a defensive posture........you become alert to any possilbe offence. If your neighbor is saying, "I hate you, everybody hates you, I hope you are destroyed." That becomes the filter of every echo. It's elementary, actually. Can you understand that, or can someone else explain it to you better, maybe?

The Eurovision people don't like songs with political messages. They would rather hear such deep lyrics like the Polish song - Hey, let's party! That's too deep for me.......

I don't think the problem is anti-semitism. Israel has no neighbouring countries taking part and as we all know: nowadays in the Eurovision everyone votes for the country next door. I think that you should insist that those nice neighbours - the Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis and Egyptians be allowed join the Eurovision. No doubt they'd give douze points to Israel every time :-))).

Who really think that this year Israel song was good ? It was nothing but good and the videos missiles through Africa and Middle East was unacceptable provocation. I have always admired Israel's beautiful songs in Eurovision, but this was far a way from that. Teapacks have other good songs but this is underperformance and not funny at all to play with fire.

It is quite ridiculous to claim that Israel failed this year at Eurovision because of antisemitism. Perhaps people in Israel have different musical taste and like that kind of music, but most Europeans simply don't like that song. I am sure you could have sent someone with a song with wider appeal as you have done sometimes in past. I wonder was there 5 second break in broadcasting anywhere else than in Israel. It seems that at least in Finland, Sweden or Britain there wasn't. And I don't think 5 missing seconds or other small problems influenced the vote that much.

What a pathetic person you are. If it was antisemitism Israel would never have been allowed to enter in the first place. Watching it last night without the red screen appearing, I can assure you it was a really really bad song, when you compare it with the other songs last night. It was in fact worse than the UK's entry which is in the final already, because we bankroll the contest. Now that is a crime against music.

To put an end to all this tactical voting and the poor quality of the songs, they should turn this contest into a festival with no voting and no winners or losers: each country selects a song which represents the country, not that the country hopes will appeal to the largest number of voters from the other countries. That is why all the songs are so bland these days - they are trying to appeal to Mr Average, and they end up not appealing to anyone. That's the way ahead - a sort of WOMAD for squares.

Its antisemitism

Ken Bruce is going to be presenting it on Radio 2. Terry made the contest slightly more palatable,but at the end of the day junk is junk, and no amount of good presentation can make it good.

I don't know why they're complaining, here in Sweden there were no interruption during the israeli song. are they sure it wasn't someone at the tv station in israel who did a mistake? since israel appears to be the only country where it happened.. not that i would be terribly surprised if it was YLE who made a mistake, they have been awful hosts so far and lots of countries have complained.

So that how they finally got israel out of it.The euros are experts at these kind of underhanded "mistakes"

This must be the first ever talkback where no one as yet has mentioned the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. That can't be right. Anyone want to try to make a connection?

Israeal don't need to submit her entry to Eurovision or Afrivision not even Asiavision as u have talked about geography. Every time i check it, she is not a part of any of these Visions/continents but Europeans pitty Israel and make them a part of any Vision. Wow it's all about the Vision, Why not making up some Israeli/Palestianian vision? And hate one another there! EuroVisao....how u say that in Hebrew?

Eurovision is pathetic. Here is a bunch of bands that all want to either look or sound like Guns 'n Roses or Paula Abdul. Where is the originality? Where is ANY representation of the cultures of the countries they come from? With the Barbie and Sven MC's leading the charge no less! What really amazes me is that I hear so many Europeans critical of American culture yet they send bands to represent their countries that mimic the worst examples of American culture! Pathetic!

Cheers!

Why was there such a fuss over the Israeli song? It was just a good laugh and very funny. Some people don't understand humour. Really, there should have been more of a fuss over our (Irish) song. It's explicitly anti-Russian/anti-Soviet in tone.

65 year-old grandmom here plays "Push the Button"everyday.Love the Teapacks!

You are so right, this song was of such low quality, a song like this does not belong at the Eurovision, they should have known this, they only brought shame onto themselves and to our country!

If you knew your geography, it would be Asiavision.

It is a "vote for my neighbour" contest. Holland, sure with one of the best performances didn't qualify as well. 9 East-European countries, have to say more? Follow the example of Italy and don't enter this humbug contest anymore.

The Eurovion entry for Israel was justifiably rejected, and not for political reasons: this 'song' was ugly and the persentation was crass. The Finns saved us the embarassment of having this number heard again.

Israel should sing in the Afrivision, not in the Eurovision

You are right about US and Israel not belonging in the EUROPEAN Song contest. Maybe americans and israelis should have their own competitions being such good friends.

No Terry Wogan on BBC Prime. But you can watch the contest on Israeli TV turn the sound down and listen to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/

To be perfectly frank Teapack was the worse song last night, and no in the UK we didn't have the red screens during the song. Although it would have provided relief. If Israel helped to pay for the costs they can automatically be in the finals like the UK. It will be really interesting next year when the Palestinian people have an entry, they will be able to have a singing parrot, but they will still win.

It's time to get back to basics for this Eurovision Song Contest. Time for the public vote to be discontinued and to bring back judges. From what I have heard this will happen possibly next year as this contest is not decided on talent but politics. The UK and Israel will never do well in this tournament unless the rules are changed to make it a fair and balanced show. At present it's a farce and disgrace. This is something Terry Wogan has repeated on many occasions, block voting by Russian and Baltic countries are spoiling this contest and the public need to keep their politics away from such tournaments.

If you are really a Likudnik and crying Antisemitism... go back to reading the Jpost. If you were takin the piss by showing how ridiculous it is everytime us Jews and Israelis cry "Antisemetism" 9especially the right wing)- I applaud you... it worked!

WELL what a relief -Today i am at least happy that this "song" music -lyrics -presentment -robotic stage jerking -has been thrown out . What a window on Israel for the EUROVISION CONTEST - Its a happy day this rubbish stays within the borders, although to hear children rendering the words Push ........ in hebrew english is also a pain to the senses . Teapacks in english -Teepex in hebrew THATS YOUR NEWSPAPER ONLINE IN ENGLISH AND IN HEBREW VERSIONS ?????????? lETS HOPE WE CAN FIND A SUITABLE ENTRY FOR NEXT YEAR -WITHOUT THE GIMMIKS ---A WHO AND A HAH TYPE HAH WHO HEE -WOW FOR A QUALITY MUSICAL SONG . JACK.

Coming from the US I didn't grow up with the Eurovision contest and ever since coming here, I find it a pretty hilarious concept. Since I have watched it, it has been an amusing night of comedy/talent/political messages (and political voting - we all know who votes for each other). The majority of performances could EASILY be sketches written by Eretz Nehederet and sung by bands like Teapacks, offering political statements about peace and love around the world... all whilst wearing elaborate costumes and set amidst a backdrop of lazers and light effects. Basically, not a true loss for Teapacks last night. At least, they still have their dignity!

Funny how that red screen thing happened in the middle of the Israeli entry. You know, the entry that the Eurovision organisers didn't want in the final. I wonder if someone's hand 'slipped' onto the off switch for 5 seconds. All the east Europeans voted for eachother anyway.

Yeah, it's dissapointing - but not terribly. There were some very good songs that failed to qualify and Kobi Oz's was not among them. It was a bad song. Period.

Others do have TV and many are thinking to buy TVs.

I vote for the Likud, but I am not paranoid!

You guys if you are clever enough, you should've made a song about peace not war or push the button?? what is this?

The israeli brand of political song does not go down well in Europe. Eurovision Song Contest is for entertainment not for sending a political message.

I am more sorry for sabotaging Teapack's performance than I am for their song not making it to the finals. I think the Israelis indeed should raise the question about the DELIBARATE 5 sec. break! The Finnish discrimination is never direct, like elsewhere in the world, but indirect; when Finns want somebody out, they "smoke" him out; the popular methods are sabotage, isolation(socially especially) and ignoring.....without big gestures and words. "Acting out" is cheap and vicious: it is a form of emotional abuse! No wonder Finnish suicide rates are on the top of the world! Give them hell, Israel! PUSH THE BUTTON! Israel deserves a fair play!

What the article fails to do is offer up a proper critique of the music that was played by Teapacks, which was poor. The song sounded like a mish-mash of four different versions all jammed together. Also the combination of trying to sing in three different languages did not help them, particualary since they sang in hebrew for about a minute and clearly the audience who understood Hebrew was limited. Eurovision on a whole is terrible and this year's version particularly the bands competing last night were largly an embarrassment to their own representative countries. Pop as music is vanilla, some like it I know. On a whole Teapacks could have done much better by performing a better song.

I always thought that those Teapacks tasted better in hot water. Am glad really someone finally "pushed the button" on these wannabes. Sugar anyone?????

Really bad song...Teapacks usually does so much better. But why not talk about nuclear war anyway? Does the Eurovision bubble have to ALWAYS be full of a load of untalented singers churning out soppy love songs of no consequence or rockers trying to shock the world? Got so bored with the lack of talent last night, I turned it off....only fun thing about the Eurovision is Terry Wogan's classic commentary...is he on BBC Prime, anyone know?

Very good... that they got kicked out.. that was not a "song".. it was "screaming and hurting my ears".... I have a classic musical education and all I can say is... most Israeli "singers" could not sing if their life would depende on it...

Another blantantly unsuitable lousy entry got what it deserved.

Israels failure was most probably neither a technical problem nor due to the "message" of the song. Out of the 10 qualified countries, 9 were part of the former Soviet-Union empire. (only exception Turkey). So no "French connection", but definitely Eastern European voting connection here....

As a native English speaker, I find it excruciating listening to a bunch of Europeans (and yes, even Teapacks in this case) singing in "English." I hope whatever song wins is sung in that country's native language. Bad enough everyone feels the need to mimic American rock/pop style -- worse still when they try - without success -- to sound like us too.

I did not understand right from the beginning why most of the judges here (9 out of 10) have voted for this song. In my opinion from the choice of songs given the song "Voulez Vous" was a much better song.

Nine out of ten qualified songs are from East Europe, where countries vote blind for their neighbors, no matter what their song and no matter how others perform. Only exception are the fanatic Turks, with their people spread all over West Europe, busy voting. The modern rules took all flair of the contest as we knew it, anyway - Eurovision Song Contest is dead: End of discussion!

One more reason to keep the TV off, and another good reason for having a good book or good DVD. No loss. Eurovision has always been pretty stupid, and there is no change, and Teapacks are not my favorite. Where's real music?

Israel was the only country that had its entry song interrupted by a several second no-feed signal. I have no data to calculate the probability of a glitch happening by chance during the program and happening exactly during Israel’s time slot, but would it not have been only fair to repeat Israel’s song uninterrupted? Perception of fairness is as important as being fair. But for Israel the “country in the world most covered by the press, yet about which the least is known” (Fiamma Nirenstein) even this has been abandoned

If we'd achieved some kind of success, never mind gone on to win, you'd be here penning lauds and dithyrambs to the Eurosong. But because they rejected us (and I happen to think we had a decent song this year), "we don't wanna play no more!" LOL! mls.lists@btinternet.com

Just sold my TV

Kobi Oz and Teapacks are a few levels of sophistication and talent above nearly any other Israeli act, not to mention the pop schlock normally performed at the Eurovision. Competing in this contest may have been an interesting experiment, but ultimately Teapacks have far more important work to concentrate on back home, namely, continuing to churn out witty, thought-provoking songs in their signature hybrid Middle Eastern style.

I am ashamed and dismayed at our choice of song and band. When will Israel learn that the unappealing and terrible appearance of T/Pack with the added song choice being not at all suitable for a European audience, will gain us zero points. Wake up and let us be proud of our country...this morning I am not...

Just as well that Teapacks did not get through with 'Push the Button' at Eurovision. Does everything have to turn into a political statement? Eurovision is instantly forgettable anyway.

Ha! That the song didn't make the finals I'm not surprised. The level this year is outstanding. Listen, for example to the entry from Belarus singer Dima Koldun. Pure quality! Kobi Oz should know that groove, songwriting and irony have no place here. Shame on you Teapacks!