Relations between Poland and the State of Israel Cover Image

Stosunki Polski z Państwem Izrael
Relations between Poland and the State of Israel

Author(s): Krzysztof Bojko
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: responsibility of Polish citizens for the Holocaust; anti-Semitism in Poland; John Paul II; Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs - Władysław Bartoszewski; Israeli President Moshe Katsav; Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research;

Summary/Abstract: Breaking off the relations with Israel by the People’s Republic of Poland after the Six-Day War of 1967 and the ensuing nearly twenty-year-long absence of the Polish diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv had a very adverse effect both on Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations in the following years. The establishment of the Interest Section of the People’s Republic of Poland in Tel Aviv in 1986 and the restoration of diplomatic ties at embassy level in 1990 admittedly led to the normalization of bilateral relations, but could not bring about a breakthrough that would be manifested, for example, by a quick improvement of Poland’s and Poles’ image in Israel. Throughout the 1990s, the majority of Israelis […]“

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 144-153
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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