Poland to Address ‘New Situation’ With Israel After Public Row

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/poland-to-address-new-situation-with-israel-after-public-row

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    > Poland’s Foreign Ministry said it will discuss the “new situation” in relations with Israel after an air strike this week killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including a Polish national, triggering a public spat and a reprimand by Israel’s ambassador.

    > Hours after Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland’s solidarity with Israel was being put to a “really serious test,” Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna invited the Israeli envoy, Yacov Livne, to a meeting on Friday. The envoy had rebuked a deputy parliamentary speaker for calling the air strike a “war crime” and accused the Polish official and his party of antisemitism.

    > The deputy minister aimed to discuss “the new situation in Polish-Israeli relations as well as moral, political and financial responsibility for recent events in the Gaza Strip,” Szejna told PAP newswire on Wednesday.

    > The Polish government joined other allies, including the US, who condemned the strike that killed workers from World Central Kitchen, a prominent disaster relief group. US President Joe Biden issued a statement late Tuesday saying that Israel “has not done enough” to protect aid workers in Gaza.

    > In Poland, the public row escalated soon after the attack. Livne was criticized for his response to the deputy speaker, Krzysztof Bosak, for failing to condemn the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas. The envoy also made reference to a member of Bosak’s party, who caused a nationwide scandal in December when he used a fire extinguisher on a lighted menorah set up in a lobby of the lower house of parliament in Warsaw, the Sejm.

    > “Antisemites will always remain antisemites,” Livne wrote in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday.

    > Tusk responded that most Poles had shown solidarity with Israel after the Hamas attack last year, but that the political jab was out of line.

    > “The tragic attack on volunteers and your reaction have caused understandable anger,” the premier wrote on X.

    > Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, urged the Israeli envoy to calm the standoff. It was time to “apologize rather than to stir up emotions,” he said.

  2. I guess Poland is the only country that summoned its Israeli envoys over the attack on aid workers.

  3. a tragic event, but wtf, driving in a war zone, just like that, in a hollywood movie? dangerous. and implying Israel targeting aid workers? what would Poland do if some sect based in belarus shoot rockets on daily basis and raided villages on polish side of the border?

  4. The israeli ambassador had a mental breakdown yesterday and went full psycho on Twitter accusing of antisemitism polish politicians from left to right only because they demanded explanation.

    Apparently some of these politicians have Jewish (or are Jewish) roots so it is even more bizarre.

  5. Yesterday, the israeli ambassador gave an interview to this big yt channel and boy oh boy.
    Here are some takeaways:
    – Israel did nothing wrong
    – it’s WCK fault
    – poles are antisemites
    – holocaust
    – no international investigation only israeli
    – when asked to say one good thing about, he said some of the greatest poles were, in fact, jewish

  6. about time someone demanded some consequences instead off kissing their asses like Germany.

  7. Ok, this situation surpassed Bosnian civil war rethorics

  8. Every bit of critisism towards the Israëli regime is antisemitism. Got it. Does that mean that if a Jewish regime commits war crimes, it cannot be considered a crime? I don’t understand but playing the victim card when you just killed 30k+ innocent civilians is really pushing it. If anything Israël is losing its unconditional Western support very rapidly. It is absolutely sad that it took the lives of 7 “westerners” before we start recognising the human tragedy properly, rather than the tens of thousands of already lost lives.

  9. Holy people killing each other in the Middle East because god told them it was a good idea. A tale as old as time

  10. Good. [Israeli state murdered Polish citizen with cold blood](https://ibb.co/5nHZcrx). Text is in Polish by fairly recognized OSINT expert.
    TLDR: all three strikes on aid worker cars were deliberate and there can’t be mistake that IAF knew those were aid worker cars. They even waited until wounded were evacuated from 2nd car to 3rd car before striking that one as well.

    Original tweets, if someone wants to do MTL:
    [https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775163154571399225](https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775163154571399225)
    [https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775072520439271748](https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775072520439271748)

    [https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775172067530354695](https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/status/1775172067530354695)

  11. Time to cut the ties to the terrorist state of Israel until they stop killing civilians and compensate all families.

  12. It looks like Israeli bots are sleeping. They aren’t many pro-war crimes and anti-refuges posts in last few days.

    Edit: Never mind, Israeli bots are still downvoting.

  13. Noticing an even more unhinged level of behaviour by zionists over the killing of the aid workers.

    Just reflex accusations of “blood libel” and usual yelling of “anti-Semitism” over people being outraged they targeted aid workers three times as they were fleeing from car to car until IDF finally executed them.

  14. If European aid workers are being murdered in broad daylight, wonder what the innocent civis have to deal with.

  15. So if anyone calls Israel out they are antisemitic, horrible country is Israel always has been, now the rest of the world is seeing this also

  16. We should have realised how trigger-happy the IDF was after its soldiers killed three israelian hostages.

    At this point, the IDF is utterly incompetent at best and genuely psycothic at worst.

  17. The Israeli state continues on its path to political isolation.

  18. Israel army as we know they killed even their citizens that try to comeback from hostage and were waving a white flag. Israel army is madness, the massacre being justified stating that hamas is among those people. Sorry but at this point Israel is a terror.

  19. Then send him back and request a sane ambassador.

  20. Man, fuck Israel. They should be completely boycotted like Russia.

  21. How I miss Szewach Weiss. Best Israeli ambassador ever.

  22. Its sad to say this but with calculations on feopolitical level west should support israel as an ally in the middle east with somewhat western values. I hope they will do some kind of probe into it and find someone guilty for it. Internatioal volunteers are something else than palestinians in this equasion.

  23. >an air strike this week killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including a Polish national, triggering a public spat and a reprimand by Israel’s ambassador.

    A Polish national was killed and who gets the reprimand? That’s right.

  24. Interesting how the narrative on this sub has changed when Ireland was still being vilified for highlighting Israeli hypocrisy only days ago.

  25. I certainly don’t see the issue after Hamas used anything like ambulances? To transport terrorists and also let’s not forget Hamas destroying Israeli ambulance with people when Hamas was not provoked…

    You can say what ever you want but it’s a war that the Palestinians started Hamas had support from the Palestinians in Gaza and some even in the west bank and if it’s that hard for you to understand war and to understand that the iNnOcEnT pAlEsTiNiAnS are not that innocent and have been brain washed to kill Israel just because of some false Muslim nerrative, just let it run itself out…
    You can say a thousand things that are wrong but the ones who started and continue to use their own civilians as meat shields will continue the Nazi way as they worshipped them… Yet Israel is wrong? I did not hear anybody having a issue with how ww2 ended after the massacre that the those who fought the nazis did… Was it OK then why?

  26. Any idea how the Israeli airforce selected that target? AI? What does it tell in general about how they select ‘targets’? Is a convoy per definition a target?

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