Polish president Andrzej Duda gave an interview to the English-language paper "The Jerusalem Post", in which he explained why, in his opinion, Prime Minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahu should come to Poland despite the judgement of the global Criminal Court to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and receive guarantees of immunity from the Polish authorities. "No hebrew can refuse to come to Auschwitz on that day and pay tribute to the murdered. We must welcome everyone who wants to come here, guarantee his safety and let him honor the memory of those who were murdered," said the Polish President.
The president pointed out that everyone for whom the Holocaust is simply a substance of remembrance should be able to attend the celebrations.
Any individual whose memory of the Holocaust is crucial may participate in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz and meet the last survivors
“He said.
‘Everyone has the right to come to Auschwitz”
Andrzej Duda recalled that with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on 27 January 1945, global Holocaust Memorial Day will besides be celebrated.
That's why this celebration is so special. Israeli authorities are heirs of the Holocaust memory, and Poland is the guardian of this memory
“ He said.
The president besides raised financial issues in this context – that is, the cost of maintaining camps and museums. He besides argued that anyone who wants to come to Auschwitz and worship those murdered in the Holocaust has the right to do so.
No hebrew can refuse to come to Auschwitz on that day and pay tribute to the murdered. We must welcome everyone who wants to come here, guarantee his safety and let him to honor the memory of those who were murdered. This is absolutely exceptional, and I made an exception for her.
“The Polish president excavated it.
Cooperation with Prime Minister Tuski
He besides assured that it was for this intent that he asked Prime Minister Donald Tusk to guarantee Netanyahu's safety in Poland.
The president stressed that the Israeli leader had Polish roots.
It is not only that he is the democratically elected Prime Minister of Israel, who represents the nation of Israel, but besides has individual ties with Poland and in this sense besides with 3 million Jews who lived here before planet War II and were murdered by the Germans during the Holocaust
“He added.
Comparisons with Putin
President Andrzej Duda referred to critical comments which, in the context of ICC judgments, frequently compare Netanyahu with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He estimated that these were “totally unauthorised” comparisons.
Because at Vladimir Putin's command, there was nothing unwarranted invasion of an independent and sovereign state, Ukraine, and the actions of the Prime Minister of Israel were a reaction to the violent attack on judaic society.
“The president assessed.
It was Hamas' people who attacked by surprise the peaceful people of the kibbutz. any in the planet are already forgetting that this attack opened a fresh chapter in the mediate East conflict. So there is no comparison between the 2 situations and the 2 leaders. I will never agree to specified comparisons.
said Andrzej Duda.
Trump Hope
The president of the Republic besides referred to the mediate East conflict, ensuring that Poland is and has always been a supporter of the "two-state solution" and there will be an agreement between the judaic people and Palestinian people.
In this context, he besides referred to a shift in Washington.
I hope that, during president Trump's second term, further steps will be taken to accomplish peace. I believe this is 1 of the large ideas president Trump has.
“He expressed hope.
We effort to look at this conflict in an impartial way from Poland. We justice him as he is, and we effort not to talk on either side.
— he said.
Polish-Jewish Relations
Andrzej Duda stated that relations between Israel and Poland are stable, but there are issues in which there is simply a discrepancy of sentences.
For years we have been asking and demanding that young Israelis coming to Poland visit not only extermination camps built here by the Nazis, but besides see places where judaic culture flourished for hundreds of years
He said.
Nobody says that that 1000 years was perfect. Problems, as always in the coexistence of nations, were many. But if individual thinks that Jews in Poland were so bad, then let them answer the question: why did they settle here?
“ He asked.
