Hungary Refuses To Pile On to Europe’s Anti-Israel Bandwagon 

In a rebuke of some of the White House’s recent Middle East missteps, Budapest stands up to the progressivist faction that favors Hamas.

Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, at Budapest, May 4, 2023. Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP

With even Prince William and rather less gently the British parliament turning up the volume of the global din over Gaza, the European Union has this week leveled an almost collective swing at Israel. Almost, because what most EU foreign ministers see as a principled stance by calling on Israel to abort an anticipated attack on Hamas holdouts at Rafah, Hungary alone sees as a misguided move at best. 

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