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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 24 OctOber 2018

Hungary's Orban says EU elections are decisive for migration

By PABLO GORONDI would become a minor- event Tuesday, called on
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — ity and "terror will become Hungary to join the Euro-
Hungary's prime minister re- part of life in large cities." pean Public Prosecutor's
asserted Tuesday that Euro- "Those who want to knead Office to better fight state
pean Union leaders delib- a European empire out of corruption.
erately failed to stop mass the European Union are "The current Hungarian gov-
migration to the continent all, without exception, ernment is not sustained by
and want to create a "Eu- pro-immigration," he said. an armed power with lim-
ropean empire" to subju- "They deliberately failed to itless replacements or by
gate individual nations. use their huge military and the endless line of Russian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, police might, they delib- tanks," said Akos Hadhazy,
speaking during commem- erately failed to defend an independent opposition
orations of a short-lived Europe from the masses of lawmaker. "It is sustained by
1956 anti-Soviet revolution, migrants." a practically unimaginable
called on voters to reject Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his address on Since 2015, Orban has amount of money, the Eu-
globalism and support "the the national holiday marking the 62nd anniversary of the out- made increasingly strict ropean Union funds which
break of the Hungarian revolution and war of independence
culture of patriotism" in next against the Soviet Union in 1956, at the House of Terror in Buda- anti-immigration policies can be stolen without lim-
year's European Parliament pest, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. his principal political focus, its."
elections. Associated Press which helped his Fidesz Hungary and Poland are
"The European Parliament party in April win a third among the few EU mem-
elections in May will decide the House of Terror Muse- of patriotism." consecutive two-thirds ma- bers who reject joining the
in which direction Europe's um. "We should reject the Orban also claimed that if jority in parliament. EU prosecutor's office, call-
wagon will turn," Orban ideology of globalism and immigration continues, "au- Opposition parties, at their ing it a matter of national
told a large crowd outside support instead the culture tochthonous Europeans" own commemorative sovereignty. q

Israeli marks 70th anniversary of 1st diplomatic outpost

By VANESSA GERA Germany during World War event he witnessed as an
Associated Press II. The Israeli Embassy in Po- 18-year-old at his mother's
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Is- land is in a leafy residential urging.
rael marked the 70th anni- neighborhood. The Star of David on the
versary of its first diplomatic The modern state of Israel Israeli flag he saw raised
mission as a new nation was created in 1948, and with pride that day was the
Tuesday with a re-enact- many of its early leaders same symbol that Warsaw's
ment in the city that hosted and settlers were Jews from Jews were forced to wear
the outpost — Warsaw, Po- Poland — the heartland of a few years earlier while
land. European Jewry before the confined to a ghetto a few
Israeli Ambassador Anna war. blocks away and sent to
Azari, flanked by other dip- During the ceremony, em- death camps by Nazi Ger-
lomats, hung the Israeli flag bassy officials showed a man forces.
from a balcony of the his- brief video of the 1948 cer- Kalwary said his mother was
toric Bristol Hotel in central emony establishing the mis- very moved by the cer-
Warsaw. sion. emony recognizing Israel's
Just as in 1948, a small One key difference: while place on the world stage,
crowd on the street below all the diplomats then were describing it as a moment Israeli Ambassador Anna Azari holds the Israeli flag from a bal-
applauded and sang the men, the ambassador and he could never forget. cony of the historic Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, during a cer-
Israeli national anthem. many other Israeli diplo- The anniversary re-enact- emony on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018.
Israel chose the Bristol as mats in Warsaw today are ment follows efforts by Po- Associated Press
the seat for its mission be- women. land and Israel to repair
cause the hotel was one Holocaust survivor Marian their typically strong ties af- said publicly about the Ho- adviser read out a letter of
of the few buildings that Kalwary attended Tues- ter a Polish law that sought locaust caused tension ear- greeting from President An-
had not been destroyed by day's reenactment of an to regulate what could be ly this year. A presidential drzej Duda on Tuesday.q