Hungary Hosts Netanyahu

The premier of the Jewish state will be feted at Budapest with ‘military honors’ notwithstanding an ICC arrest warrant.

Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP, File
Prime Minister Netanyahu, left, and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban chat as they attend a signing ceremony in the Parliament building at Budapest,July 18, 2017. Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP, File

The Danube appears to be overflowing with sense. That’s our takeaway from Hungary’s welcoming of Prime Minister Netanyahu to Budapest this week — and word that the mainstay of Mitteleuropa will be withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, which has handed up arrest warrants against Mr. Netanyahu and his erstwhile defense minister. The visit to Hungary amounts to a setback to a kangaroo court from one of its founding members.   

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