Israel loses the remains of authority in the world. Two key applications for Poland
Importantly, a year ago, in November 2024, when the total number of victims was just over 43,000, the office of the High UN Commissioner for Human Rights stated that 70 percent. victims are women and children. Considering the fact that not all men over 18 years of age who die in Israeli attacks are Hamas fighters, it can be assumed that even 80 or more percent of the victims are civilians.
Even taking this minimum value, it turns out that at least 44,000 have already been killed in Israel's retaliation. civilians. The scale of damage, deliberate suspension of the influx of humanitarian aid and numerous statements of Israeli politicians, who, such as Minister of Finance Becalel Smotricz, speak of the need to carry out displacements (i.e. ethnic purge), cause that Israel is increasingly criticized in the international arena.
Importantly, critics also come from the Jewish communities at the Israeli authorities. In such a situation, the Israeli Right accuses Jews of anti -Semitism. The scale of indignation within Israel himself is evidenced by the fact that the former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert in a text published on May 27 in the leftist daily Haaretz calls the government of Benjamin Netanyahu “gang”, and accuses his own country of committing “war crimes”.
In an open letter signed by almost 1,000 200 scientists, in turn, are accused not only of war crimes, but also of “crimes against humanity.”
The above voices flowing from inside Israel, but not from Israeli Arabs, but from Jews, they are important and worthy of publicity because they can help in the fight against the growing anti -Semitism in the world, which existed and will probably exist regardless of what is done by this or another government of Israel, but whose rapid growth is undoubtedly related to what the Israeli army does to Palestinians.
Poland in the context of increased anti -Semitism in Europe is in a special situation. Unlike in countries with a large Muslim minority, i.e. in most Western European countries, anti -Semitism in Poland, although present (the proof is, unfortunately, the anti -Jewish obsession of Grzegorz Braun) is growing in incomparably less than, e.g. in France, Germany, Spain or Great Britain.
This does not mean, however, that we can rest on laurels. Considering the common history of Poles and Jews full of difficult moments, it would be such as the voices of opposition to the Army Army cited above, which come from Israel to publicize particularly strongly.
However, this is not happening, and the community -friendly environments to the Polish -Jewish dialogue seem more likely to avoid talking about the war in the Gaza Strip than to emphasize that Israel's actions do not enjoy the support of all Israeli society.
Polish -Jewish dialogue and the Polish dialogue with Israel
It is also worth considering whether the Polish-Jewish dialogue should not be more clearly separated from the Polish-Israeli dialogue. Over the years, the relations of our country with Israel were, if not simply better, it is certainly easier than Polish -Jewish dialogue.
Warsaw's relations with Tel-Aviv deteriorated more or less when PiS took power in Poland, which objectively made a lot of mistakes, e.g. during the amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance. However, the change that took place on the Israeli side cannot be ignored.
It was in Israel that the prime minister was Yair Lapid, who washed the history of his own grandmother to accuse her of the murder of Poles and the Israeli ambassador in Warsaw, and not Poland in Tel-Aviv, behaved ostentatiously provocative, if not a hostile way towards the host country. Considering the nature of the current Israeli government, whose members are absolutely extreme politicians, it should be considered that today it is a dialogue with Israel, and not Polish -Jewish relations are most likely a minefield.
Lesson for the Polish right
The actions of the Netanyahu government from a Polish point of view are also a lesson from which it is worth drawing conclusions also in relation to our own foreign policy. What causes the Israeli government to completely ignore any criticism of allies from Europe and recently also from Washington, because there is a specific understanding of international relations that combines Benjamin Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, Donald Trump and a significant part of the Polish right.
This way of understanding the world boils down to the fact that what the world says about us is not supposed to have any meaning, because only Israeli, Hungarian American, or finally Polish interest counts. The above is probably a reaction to some extent to the appreciation of the global for liberal environments on how we are perceived in the world. The thing is that the right to this sense does not correspond to a reasonable correction, but the extreme of the opposite vector.
The conviction of right -wing politicians that public opinion within their countries was under the influence of abroad or overly sensitive to foreign opinions of centers affecting public debate, probably had some foundations, but the scale of the problem was exaggerated, and the ideas of the debate's debate were more expression of the desire to introduce censorship than any relevance of the debate.
The idea that voices from abroad and those coming from domestic liberal environments should not have any significance for the rulers, have become the equivalent of breaking the thermometer in a fever. This is exactly happening in Israel, whose prime minister in response to criticism from the President of France Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister of Great Britain Keira Starmer and Prime Minister Marek Carney said that their words are an expression of support for Hamas and neo -Nazis who want to destroy Israel.
Netanyahu did not accuse these politicians of anti -Semitism, but the list of their wines he mentioned was that it could be considered in principle as an oversight.
Aberration
To realize the scale of Netanyahu aberration, it is worth imagining what would happen if the Prime Minister of Israel directed a similar tirade towards our country. For years, Poland was paralyzed by fear of an allegation of anti -Semitism. In otherwise, our kindergarten beliefs could seriously harm us in the world, including, of course, in the United States.
Today, when Netanyahu challenges from the worst President of France, the prime minister of Great Britain and the Prime Minister of Canada, and his ministers who are political opponents in their own country of Jews call anti -Semites, accusations against Poland, which 10 or 15 years ago would result in a convening of a crisis staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, would cause at most emotion of arms.
In global politics, it is usually because when a given state begins to believe that what is said about it does not matter, it – yes – ceases to matter, but what the state says.
This rule applies not only to Israel. Also applies to Poland.
