"The position of Prime Minister Netanyahu binds us"

For us, the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

is binding – PAP, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chairman of the historico-legal dialogue team with Israel Bartosz Cichocki, referring to the critical opinion of Yad Vashem and Israel.

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The discussion in Israel around this document, in which the Yad Vashem Institute spoke, confirms our belief that it cooperation between Polish, Israeli and Jewish historians, teachers and museum guides needs to be strengthened. the truths about the Second World War and the Holocaust – including on the forums of the dialogue teams appointed by the Prime Ministers of Poland and Israel

– pointed out the team leader for dialogue with Israel

ALSO READ: Joint Declaration of Poland and Israel. Netanyahu: The term "Polish death camps" is not true. The Israeli Institute for the Memory of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes criticized Thursday the joint statement of Prime Ministers of Poland and Israel, saying the document "contains a series of highly problematic statements that are inconsistent with current historical knowledge "about the Holocaust.

An attempt to glorify the help given to the Jews and to present it as a common phenomenon, as well as an attempt to diminish the role of the Poles in the persecution of the Jews, is not only against the historical truth but also against the memory of the righteous among heroism. the declaration of the heads of the Polish and Israeli governments signed on June 27, 19659003. Asked by PAP on the opinion of Yad Vashem, Cichocki emphasizes that for the Polish government "the position expressed by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the declaration jointly signed with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawievski, June 27. "

In the Israeli-Polish declaration signed on June 27 by Morawiecki and Netanyahu, the following was emphasized: disagreement over the attribution to Poland or to All of the Polish people's guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis and their collaborators, the condemnation by both governments of any form of anti-Semitism and the rejection of anti-Polonism and '' ''. other negative national stereotypes

Naftali Bennett, Israeli Minister of Education and Diaspora, asks for the document to be revoked on Twitter or sent to the government for approval n

The declaration adopted by the Prime Ministers of Poland and Israel was adopted the day the Sejm adopted the Senate without amendment. the president signed the amendment to the law on the Institute of National Remembrance. The amendment repeals articles: 55a, which threatens fines and imprisonment for the attribution of responsibility to the nation and the Polish state, inter alia for the crimes of the Third German Reich and the art. 55b, which stipulates that the penal provisions must apply to a Polish citizen and a foreigner "irrespective of the rules in force at the place where the act was committed".

The rationale for these changes underlines that "a more effective way to protect Poland's reputation. The provisions of the law on the Institute of National Memory adopted in January by the Ministry of Justice to fight against the expression "Polish death camps" were adopted in January. of the Israeli and American authorities

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