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I know you aren’t saying the winner was undeserving CAS, and agree that some juries were likely biased against the Israeli entry.
My point is that I don’t think the Israeli jury results were necessarily due to coordinated vote manipulation, or part of some wider plan to target victory for another country. I appreciate you haven’t said that explicitly either, but your comment about juries possibly being “leaned on” hints at it.
I think Israel did far better in the public vote than it otherwise would have, and probably less well with the juries which goes some way to cancelling each other out (rightly or wrongly).
It was second with the public, 12th with the juries and fifth overall. Given that most of us seem to agree it was a middling song, not great, not terrible I’d say it overall benefitted from the present situation. Juries may have scored it slightly higher (although 12 of 25 is in line with general opinion here) but the public would have scored it way lower and it would have stayed somewhere in the middle just below the top 10.
The whole thing is a farce anyway. I voted twice and I know I will not have been alone!
Germany received by far the most points from Israel. They finished 2nd on the Israeli jurors’ vote and third on their public vote. As usual the German song was crap, but why did Israel give them that many points? Is it because the German singer’s name is Isaak or because German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock is a regular visitor to Israel or maybe both altogether?
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