{"id":371907,"date":"2018-08-03T01:51:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/common-enemy-why-israel-is-embracing-fascism-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T01:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:51:57","slug":"common-enemy-why-israel-is-embracing-fascism-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/common-enemy-why-israel-is-embracing-fascism-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Enemy: Why Israel is Embracing Fascism in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, visited <\/a>Israel on July 19, where he met Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other officials. Orban\u2019s visit would have not required much pause except that the Hungarian leader has been repeatedly branded<\/a> for his often racist, anti-Semitic remarks.<\/p>\n

So why is Orban wining and dining with the leaders of the so-called \u2018Jewish State<\/a>\u2019?<\/p>\n

The answer does not pertain only to Orban and Hungary, but to Israel\u2019s attitude<\/a> towards the rapidly growing far-right movements in Europe, as a whole. Netanyahu and Zionist leaders everywhere, are not just aware of this massive political shift in European politics but are, in fact, working diligently to utilize it in Israel\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

On his visit to Israel, Orban asserted that Hungarian Jewish citizens should feel safe in his country, an odd statement considering that it was Orban and his party that deprived<\/a> many Jews and other members of minority groups of any feeling of safety.<\/p>\n

Still, Netanyahu has welcomed Orban as a \u201ctrue friend of Israel\u201d and Orban called<\/a> on his European counterparts to show more support for Israel. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu had visited<\/a> Budapest in July 2017, but that supposedly \u2018historic\u2019 visit did nothing to change Hungary\u2019s official discourse, dotted with racism and anti-Semitism. In fact, in March 2018, Orban derided Jews, focusing his criticism<\/a> mostly on Jewish financiers such as George Soros.<\/p>\n

At an election rally campaign, Orban said<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, visited Israel on July 19, where he met Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other officials. Orban\u2019s visit would have not required much pause except that the Hungarian leader has been repeatedly branded for his often racist, anti-Semitic remarks. So why is Orban wining and dining with the leaders of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}