Netanyahu has also formed a close alliance with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has lavished praise on Miklos
Horthy, Hungary's World War II-era ruler, who introduced anti-Semitic laws and collaborated with the Nazis.
He has been engaged in a similar bromance with Viktor Orban, the ultra-nationalist prime minister of Hungary, who barely veils his Jew-baiting and has eulogized Miklos
Horthy, a Hungarian leader who collaborated with the Nazis.
By the 1930s, Hungary, under its "regent" Admiral Miklos
Horthy, former commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian navy, had become increasingly dependent economically upon Germany, which led to the rise of the Nyilaskeresztes Part--Hungarista Mozgalom ("Arrow Cross Party--Hungarist Movement), an ultra nationalist, pro-German party backed by Hitler.
Last summer, just before Netanyahu went to Budapest for a summit to meet with Orban as well as the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Hungarian prime minister praised Miklos
Horthy, who was Hungary's leader during World War II when 600,000 of the country's 800,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
See generally Miklos
Horthy, World War II Database, https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php'?person_id=189 (last visited Jan.
He's on the record as saying Miklos
Horthy, the Hungarian leader who cooperated with the Nazis, was an "exceptional statesman".
Its leader, Admiral
Horthy, went along with Hitler's anti-Semitic policies, sacrificing rural Hungarian Jews while protecting most urban Jews, especially those in Budapest.