Polish, Israeli Leaders Speak by Phone as Holocaust Feud Deepens
- Netanyahu, Morawiecki talk after Polish PM’s Munich comments
- Statements after the call show countries still differ on issue
Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, speaks at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with his Polish counterpart on Sunday after comments by Premier Mateusz Morawiecki deepened a dispute that started when the Warsaw parliament approved a Holocaust speech law last month.
Morawiecki, responding to a question at the Munich Security Conference Saturday about legislation that bans any suggestion that Poland was responsible for atrocities during the Nazi-era genocide, included “Jewish perpetrators” in a list of non-Germans that committed World War II-era crimes. Netanyahu called the remarks “outrageous” the same day.