Ungern: "Vi måste förbereda oss för krig mot judarna"

"The radical right wing in Hungary is taking to the streets in reaction to Israeli President Shimon Peres' comment that "Israel is buying up Hungary", which was published on the Maariv website nrg. At a gathering of businessmen in Tel Aviv on October 10, the president said, "The economic situation in Israel is excellent. We are buying up Manhattan, Romania, Hungary and Poland, all due to Israeli business acumen and connections."

The major Hungarian newspapers quoted Peres's words from the Maariv article, and the reactions were not long in coming. A wave of anti-Semitic reaction swiftly began in Hungary, and there is soon to be a large protest by the radical right in front of the Israeli embassy.

For some time already, members of the radical right wing in Hungary have been claiming that "Israelis and other foreigners are taking over the country, and it will not be long before the Israelis buy out the government and take over all industry and employment." Thus Peres' words fell on fertile ground. "This is one more indication that Israel wants to turn Hungary into its colony," said one right-wing speaker."

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Hungarian EU presidency is steering into a fresh controversy with the installation of a 'history carpet' featuring a map of 'Greater Hungary' in the Justus Lipsius building where ministers and leaders from all 27 member states meet during summits.

Intended to be a "historical timeline" of Hungarian symbols and images, the 202 square-metre long carpet rolled out on the floor of the Council of the European Union building is likely to spark fresh controversies about the nationalistic outlook of the government in Budapest, after the government adopted a new citizenship law for Hungarian minorities abroad.

But to MEPs from countries in the region, the very choice of the map - depicting Slovakia and parts of Romania and Serbia as part of the Habsburg empire - is indicative of the nostalgic sentiments and even irredentist impulses of the current government.

A Slovakian man called, Alojz Hlinát placed a protest sign over the image depicting the map of historical Hungary. The protest sign says, “Europeans, stop this”.

This incident shows, the insidious nature of the Trianon Peace Treaty that carved historical Hungary up and created new countries out of its parts. Now, the psychological implications of the treaty make it impossible to build friendly, bilateral relation between Hungary and the successor states. This was exactly the goal of those who dreamed up the treaty: creating a hostile historical context that can't be fixed

Karl Pfeifer : Some Hungarian media such as “Echo TV”, “Magyar Hírlap”, “Magyar Demokrata” and to some extent also “Magyar Nemzet”, have published anti-Semitic statements of a kind that would not be possible in mainstream media in Western Europe.