Netanyahu Visits Hungary as Orban Defies ICC ‘Arrest Warrant’
Germany’s state-run DW TV: Prime Minister “Orban is rolling out the red carpet for the Israeli leader during a lavish four-day trip in an ostentatious show of solidarity.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Hungary on Thursday, defying an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Prime Minister “Netanyahu begins a four-day visit to Hungary on Thursday, defying an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the enclave,” the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday.
We are all set to welcome @IsraeliPM Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to Hungary. And as we say it here – Üdvözöljük Magyarországon! pic.twitter.com/TGoSyQQKJj
— Maya Kadosh (@MayaKadosh) April 2, 2025
The visit came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor invited his Israeli counterpart to visit the country, in open defiance of the self-appointed world court. Israel, just like the U.S., does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.
“Hungary is legally obliged to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival in Budapest and transfer him directly to The Hague to face charges,” German state TV Deutsche Welle noted. Prime Minister “Orban is rolling out the red carpet for the Israeli leader during a lavish four-day trip in an ostentatious show of solidarity,” the TV channel added.
The Israeli leader’s visit will take place amid media reports that Hungary, a founding member of the Netherlands-based court, is likely to quit its jurisdiction. “Hungary is expected to announce during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit this week that it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court,” The Times of Israel reported exclusively.
In November 2024, the self-styled global tribunal issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for their roles in directing Israel’s military response to the October 7 massacre by Hamas.
Ahead of PM Netanyahu's visit: Hungary expected to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) April 2, 2025
The Associated Press reported Israeli PM’s upcoming visit:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Hungary on Wednesday to meet with its nationalist prime minister despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s four-day visit to Budapest is a sign of both his close relationship with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the latter’s growing hostility toward international institutions like the International Criminal Court, of which Hungary is a member.
Orbán, a conservative populist and close Netanyahu ally, has vowed to disregard the ICC warrant, accusing the world’s top war crimes court based in The Hague, Netherlands, of “interfering in an ongoing conflict for political purposes.”
Members of Orbán’s government have suggested that Hungary, which became a signatory to the court in 2001, could withdraw. Currently, all countries in the 27-member European Union are signatories, and all members are required to detain suspects facing a warrant if they set foot on their soil. But the court relies on member countries to enforce that.
This is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first visit to Europe after the ICC four months ago issued the warrant, urging its 125 member states — including most of the European countries — t0 handover the Israeli leader to the custody of the kangaroo court.
“Benjamin Netanyahu is about to set foot in the European Union on Wednesday, April 2, for the first time since being targeted by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC),” the French newspaper Le Monde noted.
Germany appears to be the next European nation to defy the ICC after country’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, invited Prime Minister Netanyahu on an official visit to the country.
Merz slammed the outgoing Socialist-led government for suggesting that Germany could arrest the war-time Israeli leader in order to comply with the ICC diktat. “The silence of the [previous] German government, right up to the suggestion by the government spokesman that Netanyahu could be arrested on German soil, is now really becoming a scandal,” he said.
In early February, President Donald Trump issued an executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC, a rogue legal body with a history of going after Israeli and U.S. servicemen engaged in combat operations against global Islamist terror. In 2021, President Joe Biden revoked earlier ICC sanctions slapped by the first Trump administration, a move that likely emboldened the tribunal to target Israel after the October 7 massacre.
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Am I reading the headline wrong?
Who exactly is defying the arrest warrant???
Reading the entire post, I find that the Hungarian prime minister is obligated by the ICC, of which Hungary is a member nation (for now), to arrest anyone subject to an ICC warrant upon arrival in their country. The Hungarians are not arresting Bibi, thus the defiance label.
Got it. Thank you! (Lesson learned not to skim before commenting!)
Praise and credit is due to Orban for giving a much-deserved middle finger to the ICC and its “arrest warrant.”
germany and the rest are trying to play the troublemakers so that the usa has to bow to china and/or russia
Trump is already bowing down to the Russians. Trump seriously believes that Ukraine started the war by invading Russia.
“Trump seriously believes that Ukraine started the war by invading Russia.”
Care to back that up with some sort of quote or cite, Sparky?
Quit upvoting yourself.
Actually, Mr. TDS (you have it bad), he said that the push by NATO to be on Russia’s doorstep, along with weak Obama and Biden (only a small invasion please), helped start the war.
“President Putin has made Ukraine’s preliminary steps to joining NATO the principal grounds for the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022. The alliance’s leaders have always made clear that it is up to each European country to make its own decision about membership. But the eastward expansion of NATO particularly inflamed Putin, who has claimed that Secretary of State James Baker and other Western leaders assured Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, at the time a unified Germany joined NATO, that the alliance would expand “not one inch eastward.”
George Kennan would surely have understood Putin’s reaction. The architect of the “containment” policy toward the Soviet Union wrote in 1997 that “expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post–Cold War era.” Kennan continued: “Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the Cold War to East-West relations; and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.””
https://afsa.org/did-nato-expansion-really-cause-putins-invasion
Hate for Trump causes people to make things up.
You are quite correct. The main driver of the war was the genius’s at the State Dept working to expand NATO in direct defiance of Putin’s repeated statements that it would be a red line bringing it to his borders and he would react by creating a buffer. Everyone in Obama and Bidens administration scoffed and meddled anyways.
It’s funny how you keep up voting yourself
Sad, really.
Pathetic, actually.
Perhaps the Hague could be added to the target list since they’re supporters of Hamas.
German socialists arresting a Jew? Does Germany really want that optics?
How is Netanyahu going to get to Hungary? Almost every country he will fly over is a signatory to the treaty creating the ICC. Theoretically, any of those countries could force his plane to land in their country and arrest him.
I’m fairly certain that other countries have been contacted by the Trump State Dept and told in no uncertain terms that it would not be advisable to do that.
The AP writes that Orban is a “nationalist prime minister” as if being a nationalist is a bad thing.
Shouldn’t every country’s leader be a nationalist?? Not if the country has been captured by the internationalist socialist collective.
On that note, I’m glad to see Conor McGregor running for PM of Ireland. That country’s internationalist leadership is hell bent on ruining their country by importing cheap Third World labor. I don’t get it.
To Rufus,
Yes, it seems crazy that so many European countries have committed cultural suicide.
Why would Sweden and England have admitted literally millions of hostile moslem illegal immigrants?
In one generation they will be moslem majority countries.
Already the immigrants are preying on the indigenous people.
Ireland right now is almost entirely a homogeneous country with low crime and high trust.
Why would they want to follow the example of Sweden?
I can only think they want to commit suicide
Israel is not a member of the ICC. Therefore the ICC has no jurisdiction in Israel and has no business issuing warrants against Israel’s unless requested to investigate by the UN Security Council. This has happened. Obviously the ICC has exceeded its authority and any individuals involved should be fired and sanctioned.
Iran and Lebanon also aren’t members of the ICC. The “State of Palestine” (roll eyes) is so they could be investigated as could Hamas.