Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. Photo: Thomas Kienzle / AFPIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday lashed out at "outrageous" remarks by his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki, who said the Holocaust had involved "Jewish perpetrators" as well as Polish. "The Polish Prime Minister's remarks here in Munich are outrageous," he said, adding that he intended to speak to Morawiecki "forthwith" about the matter. 'Unbelievable'Appearing at the Munich Security Conference, Morawiecki was questioned by a journalist who told of his mother's narrow escape from the Gestapo in Poland after learning that neighbours were planning to denounce them. his reaction was unbelievable:" we do not deny the fact that there were Polish perpetrators as well as there were Jewish perpetrators or Ukrainian perpetrators...." https://t.co/q1OBnBkQoF — Ronen Bergman (@ronenbergman) February 17, 2018Francois Heisbourg, a London-based diplomacy expert, called the reference to "'Polish perpetrators like there were Jewish perpetrators'" a "shameful response".

Source: The Local February 18, 2018 01:41 UTC