Poland to evacuate embassy staff, citizens from Lebanon
Poland has decided to reduce its embassy staff in Beirut and will assist Polish citizens wishing to leave Lebanon, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel “will never allow the rewriting of the historical truth” about the Holocaust, a statement that comes as tensions between Israel and Poland over the issue flare anew.
Israeli politicians accused Poland’s prime minister of anti-Semitism for equating Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to supposed “Jewish perpetrators.”
Poland and Israel were already at odds over a new Polish law criminalising some statements about the country’s actions during World War II.
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Speaking today at the Munich Security Conference, where Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki made his comment a day earlier, Netanyahu remembered the 6 million Jews “killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.”
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