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- Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel views Herbert Kickl’s speech positively.
- Kickl condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks and apologized for Austria’s Holocaust role.
- Kickl pledged to move Austria’s embassy to Jerusalem if the FPÖ forms government.
- The FPÖ won the September 2024 election with 28.8% of the vote and 57 seats.
- Analysts say Israel’s post-Oct. 7 outreach enables the FPÖ to whitewash its Nazi past.