Poland seeks ways to overcome crisis with Israel - FM

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said in an interview for the DoRzeczy weekly that Poland does not wish to deepen the crisis with Israel but rather to seek ways to overcome it. He added, however, that Poland could not tolerate any offence directed at Poles and demanded the retraction of unfair words. The conflict was sparked at a recent Middle East summit in Warsaw, at which Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accused Poles of collaborating with Nazi Germans during World War II. The situation escalated on Sunday, February 17, when Israel's acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz backed Netanyahu's words and accused Poles of "suckling anti-Semitism with their mother's milk."