Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu attending a closed-door meeting of the leaders of the Visegrad group was overheard by Israeli reporters telling the leaders the European Union would “shrivel and die” unless it changes its open-door immigration policies allowing in a flood of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East, and again called upon the EU to change its policies towards the state of Israel which he described as a European Western country.

“I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear,” he said. “I am not very politically correct. I know that’s a shock to some of you. It’s a joke. But the truth is the truth – both about Europe’s security and Europe’s economic future. Both of these concerns mandate a different policy toward Israel,” Netanyahu reportedly said in front of a microphone accidentally left on.

“The European Union is the only association of countries in the world that conditions the relations with Israel, which produces technology in every area, on political conditions. The only ones! Nobody does it,” Netanyahu said before the feed was cut by embarrassed hosts in Budapest.

“Don’t undermine the one European Western country that defends European values and European interests, and prevents another mass migration to Europe – stop attacking Israel, start supporting Israel,” Netanyahu was also reported to have said at the meeting July 19.

“We are part of European culture,” Netanyahu continued. “Europe ends in Israel. East of Israel, there is no more Europe. We have no greater friends than the Christians who support Israel around the world. Not only the evangelists. If I go to Brasil, I’ll be greeted there with more enthusiasm than at the Likkud Party,” the Israeli PM was alleged to have said.

The meeting of the leaders of the four Visegrad countries–Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic–and Israel were held to discuss EU immigration policies. The Visegrad countries have bucked the dictate from Brussels and have not allowed refugees in from the latest wave over the last several years. The Visegrad four have also increasingly taken a much more pro-Israeli stand than other EU member-states.