The Hungarian Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement condemning comments made by radical nationalist Jobbik lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi, which were reported in the Jerusalem Post.
Gyongyosi, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, questioned the number of Hungarian Holocaust victims and compared Israel to a Nazi system. He also said Jobbik supported Iran.
The ministry said that it firmly condemned the Jobbik lawmaker’s comments which first appeared in an article written in the Jewish Chronicle.
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The Foreign Ministry reacts on a Sunday! This is a domestic issue requiring a tough response from the Interior Ministry and OV himself.
Agreed! But why would Orban come out of the little box he is always hiding in and make a statement? The man didn’t even have the decency (or balls) to come out and make a statement about the collapse of Malev.
Uhh, Orban made a radio address a couple of hours after Malev canceled all their flights Friday morning…
Yes, a radio address from his safe haven Kossuth Radio. Give me a break! I’m talking about a proper press conference in front of cameras, open to questions from the unbiased “free press”. And it would be him I’d want to see – not his lackey Szijjarto Peter speaking on his behalf.
What “tough response”?
Shall OV shoot that opposition MP by his own hands? 
If that “opposition MP” had been from MSZP or DK, you can bet your Fidesz membership-card that Orban would have called an International PressConference, now it is a question to send out the ‘Grey Emissaries’ who pay some lip-service, without hurting Fidesz standing in “Jobbikorszag” even more
With the upcoming Neo-Nazi ‘Day of Honour’ in Budapest (-http://www.becsuletnapja.hu/en.html), February 11th, the interest from abroad will continue a bit more
Agreed! But the simple answer is that he is kept in a cage by those that sponsor him and where he can do least damage.
Fidesz have to install a new leader if they are to hold on to any credibility before the next election.
The litany of catastrophic policies and decisions over the last two years have defied logic and gravity.
Fidesz and the MSZP have to go into recruitment drive because the sad and amateurish fiends that are charged with representing the people at the moment are being short-changed to the extent of bankruptcy!
To hell with Waldo! Where’s Viktor?
no surprises in jobbik man’s statement.
maybe we should keep the malev plane still standing
in tel-aviv???? Just kidding….
Victor, these are the kind of statements which requires
an clear cut condemnation by the leader you like to present yourself to the outside world.
…did your coacher did not write you a “recipe” for these
kind of incidents?
While the comments of this MP are clearly unacceptable, and deplorable, let us put it in perspective, and since the comments are directed towards Jews, let us do so in a Jewish context:
CNN: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Line-Up To Spit On 8 Year Old Girl Going To School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq8twVXl4GI
Max Blumenthal: “A new Ynet-Gesher survey of 504 Jewish Israeli adults revealed that 46 percent of Israelis support settler “price tag” terror. Only 33 percent of those polled believed that price tag attacks were “never justified.” A sectoral breakdown shows that a wide majority of religious nationalist and ultra-Orthodox respondents support the attacks: 56 percent of “traditional” types, 70 percent of those identifying as Orthodox, and 71 percent of the religious nationalists declared price tag violence to be justified. The most remarkable finding, in my opinion, is that 36 percent of secular respondents support settler terror.”
http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/03/48-of-jewish-israelis-support-settler-price-tag-terror-congress-blames-palestinians-for-incitement/
BBC: Liberal Israelis, however, complain that legislators in Binyamin Netanyahu’s ruling national-religious coalition are seeking to destroy this pluralistic ethos in the courts, as well as in other institutions of state, including the armed forces and civil service. In particular, worried liberals cite a series of bills apparently designed to promote right-wingers to the Supreme Court.
http://www.economist.com/node/21538782
So, where is the international outrage? Where is the US, EU and UN concern about Israeli democracy?
Question you’re a person whodoes their homework and knows the score…
My concern for the Hungarian people is that those Israelis investing in Hungary (as they are doing in my country, US) know the Israel experiment has failed and is only a matter of time. They are preparing to move abroad. With that comes a decline in the host country’s society. They will then export war getting the host involved. Again, the US is a perfect example. Concerned others should really take note.
Dear Question,
it would serve the cause if you would have quoted the survey completely and when it was taken:
straight after the “itamar” murders
Nearly half of Israel’s Jewish population believes the “price tag” activities executed by extreme rightists against Palestinians are justified to a certain extent, according to a survey conducted for Ynet and the Gesher educational organization.
The poll was carried out by the Panels research institute following the massacre of five family members in the settlement of Itamar, among 504 respondents who constitute a national representative sample of the adult Jewish population in Israel. The sampling error stands at 4.4%.
Respondents were asked to refer to the “price tag” activities executed by extreme right-wing elements. Forty-eight percent said there was no room for such actions (33% – “totally unjustified”, 15% – “somewhat unjustified”). On the other hand, some 22% said the actions were “perfectly justified”, and 23% defined them as “quite justified”.
While most seculars oppose “price tag” activities (36% in favor, 57% against), most traditional, national-religious and ultra-Orthodox Jews believe these actions are justified (55%, 70% and 71%, respectively). etc.
@Judas – The second video in the Blumenthal link explains a lot of why more and more people around the world are speaking out against Isra*l’s policies & treatment of the Palestinians. Many of these people are not antisemites.
Nobody takes ones right to critize israels politics.
This is completely legitime.One who follows israels politics closely knows how media,parties,groups etc. critize Israels politics when necessary and/or High court
even gets involved in issues like settlement removals,
check-points etc.
What is however very questionable are attemps to compare
those politics to Nazi ideology and methods, since they are either based on ignorance or on pathological ant-semitismn.
From containment of certain peoples to restrictive laws to archeology programs, Israel closely parallels pre-war Nazi Germany.
Big Fish says:
February 7, 2012 at 6:56 pm
parallels pre-war Nazi Germany
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Sure you did not mean to write ‘pre-war Horthy Hungary’?