From the Independent site ....

'For once the Arab-Israeli conflict was pushed to one side when a Palestinian Christian was named as the winner of Project Y, Israel's version of Big Brother. Remarkably, in a land riven by the conflict, Firas Houri won the popular phone-in vote.

Despite the 21-year-old Mr Houri's popularity as the show progressed, nobody believed that the only Arab in the house could win. In fact, shutting an Arab up in a villa full of Jewish Israelis for three months, as the producers of Project Y did, could be said to have been a risky venture......'

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And I thought all Israeli's were evil.

thats what makes me angry about people having mindsets that some sort of unnecessary principle is more important than everyone living in peace. Things like this make it difficult to justify political stubborness but the Israelis will probably vote the same again next time the election comes round.

I wonder if the folks that were criticising BB think this isnt an achievement for the programme ? It does a lot more than just entertain but this is probably BBs biggest achievement I can think of (and the Israelis were doing the voting).

Its probably done more to make Israelis watching feel uncomfy about their politics than anything theyve seen on their own news programmes.