Northern League leader
Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that he saw eye-to-eye with
Avigdor Lieberman after meeting the head of the right-wing
nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party on the second day of his
visit to Israel.
He said he agreed with Lieberman, who has previously held
a variety of cabinet positions, including foreign minister and
deputy prime minister, on issues including the European Union,
the asylum-seeker crisis and Turkey.
"Lieberman expressed all his doubts about Europe, an
entity that has lost its identity, denying its Judeo-Christian
roots. He called it a soulless Europe," said Salvini, whose
party is Euroskeptic and takes hardline stances on migration
issues.
"Lieberman was extremely hard (on Turkey), calling it a
dictatorship and I support that - never mind entry to Europe".
Salvini said that the pair also agreed on the need to
intervene "in any way possible" against ISIS, including with
action on the ground, "above all in Libya".
He said they both thought that migrant flows brought
"dangers of all kinds".
Salvini also visited Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum and blasted Islamist extremists as today's Nazis.
"The new Nazis are those who kill in the name of Allah,"
he said.
"No one should look the other way, as we did then, when
faced with new lunatics who spill the blood of innocents.
"If Hitler had been stopped, there wouldn't have been six
million deaths.
"If today someone thinks that it's possible to talk to the
new Nazis, it reminds me of Europe of the 1930s".
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