Andreu Buenafuente returned to the load this Thursday with the second program of Imperfect futureits new space on the nights of the 1 of TVE. And he took advantage of the initial minutes, during his monologue, to put on the table the controversial presence of Israel at the Eurovision Festival, whose final is celebrated on Saturday, May 17 in Basel (Switzerland).
The presenter cited a headline that spoke of the commitment of the European Broadcasting Union (URU) to have “in due time” a debate on Israel’s participation in this musical event. A news about which he said: “They are taking it easy, with a little Pachorra. It would be more likely that Israel did not participate in the final for a bad song than for a genocide.” To what he added, in a wink to Melody’s song: “A diva is brave but some organizers, no.”
In the RTVE retransmission of the second semifinal of Eurovision Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela have remembered during the presentation of Israel that the Spanish public corporation has asked to open a debate on the participation of the PAOS, after the military offensive of its government has charged in Gaza the lives of more than 50,000 Palestinians, 15,000 of them children, according to official data of the local health authorities that Aguilar has transmitted. Since last Tuesday, Israeli attacks have killed more than 250 people in Gaza, most women and children. RTVE also asked Eurovision organizers weeks ago to open the debate on the role of Israel at the Festival. “This is not a petition against a country, it is a call for peace, justice and respect for human rights in accordance with the vocation of Eurovision,” Varela settled.
Yuval Raphael, one of the favorites
The young Yuval Raphael, representative of Israel, debuted this Thursday in the competition during the second semifinal of the contest and achieved her classification for the final. The theme is among the four favorites in the betting houses to win this year. During the Eurovisive pre -selection of Israel, the singer stressed to the media her status as a survivor of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. “Music is one of the great resources for my healing process,” she said when she was chosen representative of Israel in Eurovision.
Buenafuente’s monologue began citing Melody, claiming in humor that only 48 hours left to stop singing left That divathe song chosen to represent Spain this year: “If after Eurovision, sings, it is already at its own risk.” And he cited the two semifinals, which have been held this week to choose the 26 countries classified for the final: “It has coincided that just in Switzerland there were also the United States and China in the first meeting on the tariffs and the curious thing is that they have reached an agreement, I believe that it is no coincidence. They thought it was a quiet place and they have met the Eurovision festival, and they have said: we agreed to:
In his first program, Catalan had already had Melody, although by surprise. At the premiere of space, Silvia April, a good -sighted couple (and who participated in Eurovision with Rodolfo Chiquilicuatre), broke out by surprise in the set imitating the Andalusian artist to sing her own version of That diva.
To close the Eurovisive block of this second program, Buenafuente took the stage to Dídac Flores, which was in the public and that leads a musical about Eurovision, Touelf Pointsto interpret some of the songs that have sung at the festival throughout its history.
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