BRATISLAVA (EJP)---Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon praised Slovakia’s role in voting against the Goldstone report on the war in Gaza and for taking a firm stance on Iran within the EU, during meetings in Bratislava with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.

The visit was part of Israel's ongoing efforts to assemble a 'moral majority' against the Goldstone Report when it returns to the United Nations.

“Just as we commemorated Slovakian righteous gentiles, so we once again see Slovakians who are not standing idly by and are taking a firm stand on fighting against extremism and intolerance,” Ayalon said.

"Slovakia, as a member of the EU, NATO, a Member of the Human Rights Council and other important international bodies can play a unique role in joining like-minded nations against those who seek to slander and act against the Jewish State," he added.

During his visit, the minister addressed the annual ceremony in honor of the Slovak Rigtheous Among the Nations who saved Jews during WWII.

"The most important issue is that we must not be silent in the face of tyranny, extremism and terrorism. Just like 65 years ago when there was a small group of people who stood against Nazism, so today we seek a moral and qualitative majority to stand against the automatic majority,” Ayalon said.

He compared the situation before the Holocaust to today. "Just as the Holocaust was predated by delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish People, so we see today another regime using words, education and the media to prepare the way for a new Holocaust while denying the past," said Ayalon, in a reference to Iran.