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Whatever their rhetoric they desperately crave respectability, making Israel a pariah state à la 1980s South Africa would hurt them badly.

Why else are they even trying to be in Eurovision and UEFA in the first place

They’re in UEFA because half of the countries in Asia (AFC) and Africa (CAF) wouldn’t play them. Same reason Russia considered leaving UEFA recently.

>They’re in UEFA because half of the countries in Asia (AFC) and Africa (CAF) wouldn’t play them.

And how's that a problem of UEFA?