Shalom, everyone, and welcome to the Middle East and Beyond.

I'm Barry Stagner here in Southern California, where the weather is beautiful, but the government is not.

And I'm joined here by Amir Sarfani from the Jesreal Valley.

Shalom Amir, great to see you.

Yes, Shalom, Pastor Barry.

It's good to see you here.

It's the government that is good, but some of the people are not.

But let's not talk about it today.

Well, again, we've got a busy week in the news, lots of things for us to talk about.

And there were some interesting developments regarding BB on a couple of fronts.

Your prime minister who's traveling around the world visited here to the states,

but he also received in Hungary a rather interesting welcome from the host of the International Criminal Court,

the host nation that is, and the reception from the government was quite different from that of the Hague.

And maybe you can bring us up to speed to what exactly transpired there with Netanyahu's visit. Yes, so, you know, it's very interesting that you see the effort of the world power to bring down Netanyahu also here in Israel,

but of course in other places, but at the same time, as in Esther, we see that Mordecai eventually was paraded in the streets led by Haman himself.

And as the Bible says, this is what is done for the man. The king delights to honor and take a look at how he was welcomed in the presidential palace in Budapest in Hungary, rather a very, very significant

and strategic visit right before he continued to Washington, D.C. That was quite a visit

because Hungary is one of the most outspoken member of the EU against

mass immigration, against Islamization of Europe, and a very good supporter and friend of

Israel when it comes to its fight against terrorism.

So Netanyahu very skillfully did two things by going to Hungary.

First of all, he said, the ICC may want me arrested, but here I am on the soil of Europe.

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