Posted on 08/14/2021 3:17:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Saturday signed into law a bill limiting restitution for Holocaust-related claims.
In a Saturday statement, Duda said: "I made a decision today on the act, which in recent months was the subject of a lively and loud debate at home and abroad. After an in-depth analysis, I have decided to sign the amendment."
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), responded: "Today, Poland approved, not for the first time, an anti-Semitic and unethical law. Tonight, I instructed the chargé d'affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw to return to Israel immediately for indefinite consultations."
"The new Ambassador to Poland, who was due to leave for Warsaw soon, will not be departing for Poland at this stage.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will recommend today that the Polish Ambassador to Israel remain on holiday in his country. This time should be used to explain to the people of Poland the meaning of the Holocaust to the citizens of Israel, and the extent to which we will refuse to tolerate any contempt for the memory of Holocaust and its victims. It will not end here," Lapid promised.
"We are holding discussions with the Americans to coordinate our future response," he added.
"Tonight, Poland has become an anti-democratic and illiberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history. We must never remain silent. Israel and the Jewish people will certainly not remain silent."
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“a bill limiting restitution for Holocaust-related claims.”
I haven’t read the bill, but I wonder if it is in any way analogous to “slavery reparations”?
There has to be some limit.
Poland lost more people in WWII, as a percentage of the population, than any other country, as I recall.
Poland never surrendered, never accepted German occupation.
“it” being the discussion or pursuit of “restitution”.
I am so glad I clicked on this thread and read your comments. That takes integrity.
Continuing it indefinitely would be. The people who actually suffered have mostly died off. So have their next of kin. Those who got some restitution, good for them. Great great grandkids do not get reparations or restitution, not even from Germany, let alone Poland. Enough is enough.
Notice how it’s always the anti-Semites who accuse everyone of being anti-Semites?
We know many Germans were slaughtered, but how many Israelis?
The ownership of the Holocaust is BS. And to your point, there were indeed victims from multiple classes.
It’s important to understand the victims were primarily Jewish given that was the justifying trait for mass murder, but those murdered were in fact humans... Judaism survived unscathed.
Send the bill to Berlin, not Warsaw.
George Soros’ fortune originates from artwork of unknown provenance he showed up with in Romania after WWII.
Lapid’s not an anti-Semite, just a shmuck with a ministerial portfolio. But I know what you mean.
Furthermore, Germany, you know the country that perpetrated the Crime, got all the benefits of The Marshall Plan. Poland got squat.
Oh STFU
So sick of this victimization crap
They lost half the country, East of the Bug River, to the Soviets, and were browbeaten into it by none other than Winston Churchill, with Joseph Stalin, who took part in Poland’s partition, looking on and happy as a pig in sh!t. Poland got screwed.
There have been millions of claims all over Europe since 1945 over lost property due to the various unjust governments that have ruled there. Jewish claims by survivors are common, since most Eastern European Jews lost their property under Nazi occupation, and it was not restored by subsequent communist regimes. And there are lots of non-Jewish claims over property stolen by Nazis and communists or both, as both regimes separately or together stole pretty much everyones property. So on the one hand, such claims are just.
On the other hand, its been thirty years now since the fall of the communist regimes. A line needs to be drawn, otherwise property rights will remain always unstable, if some ancient claim can pop up anytime.
Yep, the Soviets got everything that Ribbentrop let them have in 1939.
Crime Pays!
“Send the bill to Berlin, not Warsaw.”
This seems to be the most appropriate response.
Warsaw has a few things to answer for. My old boss’ father was held in jail on suspicion of cannibalism—i.e., a blood libel—as part of the pogrom that erupted after the end of the war. On the other hand, the angry mobs might have torn him to bits, so being in jail might have saved his life. He’s long deceased, as are almost all the direct victims. Whatever the merits or demerits of this new law, Lapid’s full of sh!t to grandstand about it like this.
There are buildings in Warsaw that stand empty because they can’t find the heirs to them.
It’s a shame because they are the only buildings in Warsaw that actually survived the war, and would really be a great addition to the city if they were restored, as other parts of the city have been. But they can’t do anything.
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