Ive looked at it a bit more today and have a few more reasons to be cheerful(and one other not to be.)
In 2005 Israel also had a Hebrew/English song(they did in 2006 aswell but it was nothing like 2008...2005 was) - a woman with a similar type of song - and they qualified from a bad semi final draw that year - a lot trickier that year too as it was 10 from 25.
The negative is that a lot of the countries that scored them highly in that one aren't eligible to vote for them here...altho there are quite a few who did aswell so its not much of a negative.
And also, lets not forget that even with a few negatives, its 10 through from 19...and given some of the dross in this semi it really really should make it.
Aye I'm convinced too. Never in doubt
