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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered sharp criticism of his Polish counterpart after Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki had remarked yesterday, at the press briefing after a Munich Security Conference in Germany, that his country’s controversial Holocaust Bill was legit as there were also ‘Jewish Perpetrators’ during WWII.

Mr. Netanyahu said the Polish government’s stance on this issue was “outrageous” and it simply showed “an inability to understand history.”

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In essence, Polish PM Mr. Morawiecki said: "It's extremely important to first understand that, of course, it's not going to be punishable, not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators - as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian, not only German perpetrators."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Netanyahu in Munich responds to the Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki “his sttms here in Munich are outrageous. It is misunderstanding of history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people. I will talk to him soon about that” (how soon? They r both here…)<a href="https://twitter.com/MunSecConf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MunSecConf</a></p>— Tal Schneider (@talschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/talschneider/status/964920252214718466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2018</a></blockquote>

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The Polish head of state gave this in response to an Israeli journalist who asked if anyone who said there were Polish collaborators in the Holocaust would be considered a criminal in Poland under the new law, as some have come to understand it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Polish gov statement: The comments of PM <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Morawiecki?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Morawiecki</a> during a discussion in Munich were by no means intended to deny the Holocaust, or charge the Jewish victims of the Holocaust with responsibility for what was a Nazi German perpetrated genocide <a href="https://t.co/aVPsm3ek7V">https://t.co/aVPsm3ek7V</a></p>— Igor Janke (@IgorJanke) <a href="https://twitter.com/IgorJanke/status/965038730644983809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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The Polish Holocaust bill, which is highly controversial, states that: "whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich… shall be subject to a fine or a penalty of imprisonment of up to three years".

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-poland/israels-netanyahu-condemns-polish-pm-for-jewish-perpetrators-comment-idUSKCN1G10TE