[Eleutheria5]

Simple solution. Leave Poland. Israel awaits.

Forgot to make fun of him:

Camptown racetracks sing your name.
Duda. Duda.
You say Israel is to blame
Duda. Duda.
for the Duda days?
Thin-skinned Poles are that way.

[escapefromboston]

I can’t imagine Katz’s statements helped the situation.

[bgill]

Accept they don’t regret a thing and deal with them as enemies. The ball is in Poland’s court to do with as they may but Israel isn’t required to play the game anymore.

[Snook79]

Ironically, he probably thinks Adolf Hitler, but fails to see that Hitler was a symptom of European anti-Semitism.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Am I the only one on FR who is heartbroken by this contretemps? Things are bad enough now without two allies fighting. I can see where both are coming from (particularly Israel), but these guys need to stop painting themselves onto tree branches. This is where diplomats come in - both sides need to find some carefully-worded statement they can live with. It is in Israel's interest going forward to have good relations with Poland.

I read a letter to the editor in one of the Israeli papers where some Israeli living in Poland claimed that internally in Poland, there is plenty of soul-searching and openness about Polish involvement in the Holocaust, the problem is what the leaders say for external consumption.

[ConservativeMind]

“Poles suckle anti-Semitism from their mother’s milk.”

Uh, yeah, that’s racist, without a doubt.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Victim blame much?

[Gay State Conservative]

Poland's history over the last 100 years (or more) has been a *very* difficult one...largely due to its proximity to Germany and Russia.It's my understanding that there was (and,perhaps,still is) anti semitism in Poland...but then one can even find it in Israel.

In recent times Jews have suffered greatly...and Poles have suffered too.