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Last November, following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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his longtime ally, Viktor Orban, immediately flouted the decision and invited him instead to visit Budapest
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Well, on Thursday that day arrived, Netanyahu set foot on Hungarian soil, and instead of handcuffs, he received military honors
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On the very same day, Hungary said that it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban adding Friday that the country was never fully committed to the institution anyway
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Take a listen. Why was the Prime Minister of the State of Israel not arrested despite the International Criminal Court expectation
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I can give you three answers. The first is that it is not our habit
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In Hungary, we don't arrest our guests. The second is that we didn't want to do that
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Israel is our friend. And the purpose of the foreign policy for our country is to gather friends
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And that's good. Israel is not Hungary's enemy. And it is not even an indifferent country, but a friend
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The third thing is, even if we had wanted to arrest him, we would not even have been able to order the police to make an arrest
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because we never made this international treaty part of the Hungarian law
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So we can say that the prime minister was 1,000% safe in Hungary
