The row, initially sparked by media reports suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Poles of complicity in the Holocaust, deepened on Monday after the comment by his minister Israel Katz, who also labeled Poles anti-Semites. Katz’s words led Poland to pull out of a planned summit of central European states in Israel. US ambassador Georgette Mosbacher, asked if Katz should apologize, said the comment “warrants an apology”. Mosbacher said she felt two strong allies like Israel and Poland “shouldn’t be using that kind of rhetoric. “The entire Polish nation cannot be blamed for the Holocaust,” he said in an interview with Reshet Beit Radio.

Source: bd News24 February 20, 2019 10:52 UTC