Netanyahu to Poland: Don’t rewrite Holocaust
Do not test Israel’s resolve, warns Netanyahu
Munich, Feb. 18: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said 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.
Speaking on Sunday at the Munich Security Confe-rence, where Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki made his comment a day earlier, Netanyahu remembered the 6 million Jews “killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.” He added: “We will never forget and we will never allow the rewriting of the historical truth.”
He also warned Tehran over aggressions by what he called Iran and its “proxies” in Syria, while showing what he claimed was a piece of an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli airspace.
Saying he had “a message to the tyrants of Tehran”, he warned, “Do not test Israel’s resolve.”
He brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called “a piece of that Iranian drone, or whats left of it, after we shot it down.” — AFP