00:00Iceland is the latest country to announce it will not be taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest next year,
00:08after the organizer EBU said Israel could participate.
00:13Iceland's public broadcasters said the decision to allow Israel to join caused disunity.
00:19Local media said a crowd had gathered outside the broadcasters' headquarters to show their support.
00:25The announcement comes a week after four other countries announced they were pulling out of the contest for the same reason.
00:32Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland all said they wouldn't participate, citing Israel's offensive in Gaza as a reason for the boycott.
00:41Well, we would like to see other countries and other broadcasters, such as the BBC, follow the lead of RTE,
00:48follow the lead of the Spanish broadcaster, because we cannot understand how European broadcasters would continue to support the state of Israel being in the Eurovision,
01:00given that Israel targets and kills broadcasters, journalists and camera crews,
01:06and continues to refuse to allow EBU members to send their own stuff in.
01:13The EBU has previously said it strives to remain politically neutral.
01:17However, in 2022 it banned Russia from competing following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
01:24That means that it was a good measure of the rescue and prison.
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01:28In 2022 it's the only one that has been on.
01:30For a high level of the transport captain is a никgo sovereign,
01:32considering in 2022 it will be strongly known as the people of Israel.
01:34And the Nacht founder and the scientists트도 in the United States at the same time as the entire country
01:38looked at the sea.
01:40The most significant part of the island and the citizens of the state are now,
01:43in 2022 the coast of the international bank.
01:46The bank and the international national offshore agreementsies.
01:48It's been a special and commonplace of the rest of the churches of this country.
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