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Originally Posted by mobertol
Odd you should mention Israel and Europe together...the European Athletics Championship is on at the moment and Israel is taking part - there must be some reason why! Anyone any ideas?
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Reading round the www it gets complicated. The UN puts Israel in Western Asia, but for most sports purposes it seems to join with Europe, as I said before for religious/ political reasons.
At the Olympics both Palestine and Israel are competing, Israel is placed in Europe and Palestine in Asia for their purposes.
I suspect a lot of this has to do with the large number of people of European origin in Israel. Whatever, the world would be a better place if the whole mess generated by the formation of the state of Israel could be cleared up. But that will never happen while it has the mighty USA behind it.