It may be a full 79 years since the end of World War II.
But leave it to the deputy foreign minister of Poland, Władysław Bartoszewski by name, to remind us of the virulent anti-semitism that both brought on the war and resulted in the infamous mass murder of some six million Jews.
Here’s a current headline, this one from the Jerusalem Post: “Netanyahu will be arrested if he comes to Auschwitz memorial, Polish government confirms.”
The story reports:
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski said that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Poland, he will be arrested in accordance with the country’s commitment to the International Criminal Court (ICC).Bartoszewski’s comments came in a Friday conversation with the Polish economic and legal newspaper Rzeczpospolita regarding the preparations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which is set to take place this January 27.Netanyahu was charged in November, along with former defense minister Yoav Gallant, for a series of crimes by the ICC. States that signed the Rome Statute are legally required to comply with ICC arrest warrants.
Recall. Again.
Jan. 27, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz. And for those who came in late and drew a blank, here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia:
The camp at Auschwitz was established in April 1940, at first as a quarantine camp for Polish political prisoners. On 22 June 1941, in an attempt to obtain new territory, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. The first gassing at Auschwitz — of a group of Soviet prisoners of war — took place around August 1941. By the end of that year, during what most historians regard as the first phase of the Holocaust, 500,000–800,000 Soviet Jews had been murdered in mass shootings by a combination of German-Einsatzgruppen, ordinary German soldiers, and local collaborators. At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich outlined the Final Solution to the Jewish Question to senior Nazis, and from early 1942 freight trains delivered Jews from all over occupied Europe to German extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Most prisoners were gassed on arrival.
In short, Auschwitz was dead center in Hitler’s rabidly anti-semitic drive to eliminate Jews. It was the home base for the mass murder of those European Jews.
Is it any wonder that the Prime Minister of Israel would want to travel to Auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation by, of all people, the Soviet army and Western allies?
Of course not.
The irony here? In November of 1947, a trial began of those who were in charge of Auschwitz. Who ran the trial? That would be, per the historical record, Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal. As a result, there were, per Wikipedia, “23 death sentences, seven life sentences, and nine prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years.”
Here we are now in the world of the 21st century, and apparently, Poland’s current leadership has reversed course — big time. Instead of focusing Poland’s Middle East foreign policy on the leaders of Hamas who instituted the mass murder of Jews on Oct. 7, 2023, the Polish government says it will target the democratically elected Jewish Prime Minister of Israel, who is in charge of defending his country and whose visit for the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz would remind current generations of what took place there — and why.
And no one blinks?
Perhaps there would be some international blinking if in fact an arrest warrant were issued for the Polish officials whose actions are clearly giving a pass to the murderers of today’s Jews in the Middle East.
Don’t wait up.
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