Poland Israel

Hypocrisy from Warsaw: Does Poland want to build bridges with Israel or burn them? - opinion

If Poland truly wants to be taken seriously as a friend of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state, it must do more than send an ambassador and issue empty platitudes.

IT’S LAUGHABLE that Poland is positioning itself as a moral beacon; pictured: PM Donald Tusk.
Maciej Hunia met with President Isaac Herzog.

After long hiatus, there is finally a Polish ambassador in Israel

 YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Auschwitz (illustrative).

Poland to 'protect Netanyahu' from ICC arrest warrant during Auschwitz visit - report


Israeli charged with assault for spitting on Polish ambassador

 Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski

Polish PM: Poles were greatest victims of WWII

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poles were the most murdered victims during WWII, due to which they will never pay any sort of compensation.

Poland's former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish faction to submit bill to prevent WWII property reparations

The Kukiz 15 faction plans to submit a bill interpreted as preventing Jews from claiming reparations for property lost in the Holocaust.

Pawel Kukiz of Kukiz '15 party addressess supporters after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw, Poland October 25, 2015.

What will it take for the Israeli-Polish crisis to end? - analysis

The first was that my grandparents probably never would have thought 75 years ago that one day a grandchild of theirs would be walking into the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda delivers a speech before the official start of a march marking the 100th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2018.

A pragmatic pact formed in Poland

Such peace will unfortunately take more time to ripen, but several key achievements were accomplished in Warsaw en route to the grand goal.

PARTICIPANTS POSE for a photo during the  Middle East summit in Warsaw earlier this month.

Righteous Poles and their dangerous adversaries

Wpolie also have stories of Polish rescuers who faced retribution, not from the Germans, but from fellow Poles, when their help to Jews on the run came to light, as in the three stories that follow.

ORIGINAL ARTIFACTS at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, where rescuers of Jews are also honored

Middle Israel: the foreign minister’s Polish joke

A day will come when Israelis will also be in a position to talk to foreign governments as frankly as they talk to each other. Until then, Israeli foreign ministers will have to make friends.

Israel Katz (L) whispers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during a cabinet meeting, December 9th, 2018

February 20, 2019: Bailing out of Labour

Readers of 'The Jerusalem Post' have their say.

Letters

V4 summit canceled in Jerusalem after Poland quits over Holocaust crisis

Poles furious after acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz quotes former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir to the effect that 'Poles imbibe antisemitism from their mothers' milk.'

Middle East summit in Warsaw

Warsaw to attend Visegrad summit as crisis dies down

Netanyahu’s remarks on Polish role in Shoah clarified

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a commemoration event at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during the ceremonies marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day