19 July, 2017
"Israel is a bastion of European and western values in the heart of a very dark place", the premier said in Budapest on the second of a three-day visit to Hungary. I know that's a shock to some of you.
Szydło is also expected to discuss Polish-Israeli economic and security partnership with Netanyahu, and Europe's migration crisis, along with other European issues with her V4 partners. "Both of these concerns mandate a different policy towards Israel".
The European Union is the only global organization that conditions relations with Israel, which gives it technology, on political considerations. "The only ones! Nobody does it", Netanyahu said before officials realised the meeting was being overheard by reporters and cut the feed.
At Wednesday's meeting, Netanyahu addressed Israel's overall relationship with Europe, saying that it was in the EU's interest to build a relationship with Israel.
Observers say Israel is seeking closer ties to nations that can help defend its interests in worldwide forums.
"Don't undermine the one Western country that defends European values and European interests and prevents another mass migration to Europe", Netanyahu added, describing how Israel was defending Western values in a very hard region of the world. Stop attacking Israel. Support Israel.
"There is no logic here".
In an off-the-record conversation that was leaked between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and leaders of the Visegrad Group, the Israeli prime minister urged Europe to take Israel's side in its ongoing dispute with the Palestinians - for its own good. Europe is dissociating itself from the biggest center of innovation in the world. East of Israel, there is no more Europe.
His Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, a virulent opponent of Muslim immigration, has hailed Netanyahu as a "patriot".
"It's time to have a re-assessment in Europe about the relationship with Israel". "If I go to Brazil, I'll be greeted there with more enthusiasm than at the Likud party".
