On Thursday, Hungary hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and announced it would be quitting the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
“The Hungarian government has decided to withdraw from [the ICC],” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Budapest alongside Netanyahu, who was clapping during the announcement.
In a post on X, Orban said the ICC has “become a political tribunal, evident in its witch-hunt against Prime Minister [Netanyahu]. We will not support a court that targets democracies like Israel for political gain. Hungary defends the rule of law. Hungary stands with Israel.”
The ICC issued its warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant back in November 2024. The court also sought warrants for three Hamas leaders, but they have all been killed by Israel.
Orban has been one of the few European leaders consistently calling for peace in Ukraine, but he has expressed strong support for Israel amid its genocidal war on Gaza. “Hungary stood by Israel in Hamas’ murderous attack — and today, Hungary stands by Israel in the attack on the hypocrisy of the International Criminal Court in The Hague,” Netanyahu said in a post on X.
Both the Biden administration and the Trump administration have strongly opposed the ICC’s efforts against Netanyahu since the US is implicated in Israeli war crimes due to US military aid to Israel and other kinds of support. In February, the Trump administration sanctioned Karim Kham, a British lawyer who serves as the chief ICC prosecutor.
An autocrat, from 1998 to 2002, since 2010 in the office as Prime Minister of a national-conservative, right-wing populist party in Hungary, receives the national-conservative, right-wing populist Prime Minister of Israel, wanted on an international arrest warrant by the ICC, who has been in office since 2009 with an interruption of around one year.
https://intellinews.com/israeli-prime-minister-visits-budapest-in-first-european-trip-since-icc-arrest-warrant-374805/?source=hungary
https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/hungary-a-key-country-in-the-populist-reshaping-of-the-old-continent/
https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2024/11/orbans-rebellion-against-europe-gains-momentum?lang=en
https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/what-the-eu-should-do-about-viktor-orban
https://fidesz-eu.hu/en/
https://politpro.eu/en/hungary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidesz
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Orban
https://miniszterelnok.hu/en/ The Official homepage of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/prime_ministers_office/govil-landing-page
https://k-larevue.com/en/hadas-ragolsky/ Hadas Ragolsky, protest leader: “We’re determined not to become part of the diaspora”
Ouch!
Shame, shame, shame….! We know your name!… … … …. ….. ….. ……….
We know now who supports the genocide in Europe openly…!
Hungary alas is not the only European country supporting genocide, Germany, the Netherlands, where the ICC resides, the UK for example do also support the genocide. There is no way around that conclusion.
These are like Hungary also countries who sincerly hold the opinion that the ICC is not to go after Western warcriminals, who are by far the worst of the worst as Netanyahu never ceases to prove, but to go after Africans mainly (still about 90% of their cases are) Like Karim Kahn was told by Western "democratic" leaders:
Orban could have been among them who told him that, but somehow I think these particular 'elected leaders' are not seen as authoritarian as Orban is. They are all equally sick though.
Maybe Nutty Yahoo's plane will crash. There's always a maybe. USA's attitude towards the ICC belies its promise of "peace, freedom, democracy"! Disgusting that some people are so DUMB! Orban joins the ranks of war criminals.
What a shock. Not! 03/04/2025 Israel’s Genocide Has Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined in Palestine
As of late March, at least 232 journalists have been killed in the Gaza genocide, with the vast majority being Palestinians, according to a new paper by the Costs of War project in Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Nearly 380 journalists have been wounded in the violence as of January, per the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
https://countercurrents.org/2025/04/israels-genocide-has-killed-more-journalists-than-wwi-and-wwii-combined/
https://cdn.countercurrents.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Gaza-Journalist.jpg
I'm kinda shocked there were still that many journalists left in the world. I figured the reporting industry was now almost entirely "rip & read" stenographers who just transfered what government spokesmen told them, from one medium to another.
You are correct more than you realize Sapien.
Jun. 14, 2012 These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
That’s consolidated from *50* companies back in 1983. But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates “the illusion of choice,” Frugal Dad says.
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
Sadly it is so.
""Hungary defends the rule of law.""
While ignoring the ICC rule of law to arrest Netanyahu.
They are both fascists.
"Hungary defends the rule of law'.
He must have been promised something to say that. Was he looking upwards and ducking? Is he a Hasbara troll?
He has been promised Israeli weapons at discount prices…!
Look, it's a club. Club members always have privileges.
I now have to scratch Budapest Hungary from my travel destination list…!