Poland: "We are not fighting anti-Semitism because of Lapid, but because it is important to us." Israel today

In Warsaw today (Wednesday) reacted angrily to a claim by senior officials in the Israeli Foreign Ministry that Jerusalem decided to return to Poland the diplomat in charge of the embassy following contacts with the Polish government, following a series of steps taken to end the crisis between the two countries. The Polish.

After the approval of the law, which limits the period for filing property restitution claims, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid launched a blatant attack on the Poles, returned to Israel for consultations the temporary commissioner of the embassy, ​​Tal Ben-Ari Ya'alon, suspended the new ambassador Yaakov Livna and "advised" the ambassador Poland in Israel will not return to Israel.

Lapid: "Polish law is antisemitic and immoral" // From Yair Lapid's Twitter account

Among the "signals" received from Warsaw about the desire to end the crisis, according to Foreign Ministry officials, was Polish President Andrzej Duda's strong condemnation of the antisemitic demonstration of far-right activists in Kalisz on Poland's national holiday and the Polish government's announcement of its intention to adopt antithesis. "International Alliance for the Remembrance of the Holocaust."

A senior Polish source told Israel Today: "We are not fighting anti-Semitism to please Mr. Lapid.

We do this to fight anti-Semitism.

"Whether Israel has an embassy in charge of Warsaw or not is an Israeli decision."

Meeting of Polish citizens who support the application of Polish law // Photo: EPI,

Warsaw clarifies that there were no signals from the Polish government or contacts between it and the Israeli government.

"We are very busy these days defending our borders," say representatives of the Polish government, referring to the tensions created in recent months with Belarus following its attempts to flood Poland and through it the rest of the EU with illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.

Poland's conservative government has declared the border area a closed military zone and completely blocked the border for illegal immigrants.

"This is what concerns us now, not Israel," they said in Warsaw, adding: "In any case, there is no situation in which any government will expel the Polish ambassador and the Polish government will send signals to it of a desire to reconcile or apologize."

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