#Polands President Andrzej Duda

[gryficowa]

There are many Muslims living in my country (Maybe they are a minority, but still…), and looking at what Israelis are like (Read: About Zionist pro-genocidal views), I don't want them to be in this country even more (Because if I mentioned, they are going to jail for their crimes)

I don't want my country, which was a fucking victim of colonization, to protect the fucking colonizers

I live in Poland, a country that was a victim of colonization and was left to its own devices because many countries were like "It's not our war, we don't give a damn"

I live in a country where the effects of the Nazis are still visible today, many Poles try to deny that their national identity was erased just as the Nazis wanted

I don't need any more fucking fascists in this country, the fact that fascism has been reborn for many years is disgusting, in my country there were fucking attacks on Polish mosques (And anti-Semitic graffiti, which appeared less and less over time, because they found a new goat in Poland sacrificial, Islamists and LGBT+…)

I don't need any more Islamophobic pieces of shit in this country

I don't need any more bigots, I want my country to finally get the fuck together and face its fucking trauma, instead of unknowingly doing the same thing to those who hurt us many years ago

Due to the fact that Tatars and other Muslims live in my country, I don't want another Islamophobic group to come here, there are already too many people here who believe in Israeli fucking propaganda

You belong in prison, not in a country full of fucking minorities

I'm a fucking Kashubian, you'll probably fucking murder me, you'll kill Tatars, you'll kill Muslims, you'll kill other Jews because your views are anti-minorities and other groups that are not Jews, don't you dare come back to this country because you're fucking dangerous

In my country there are Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Roma (Whom you call "Gypsies", although it is offensive, I saw one of you wrote about them, you called these people "The problem that Europe cannot cope with", you are disgusting)

You are the only ones I don't want in my country, you are evil people who should not go unpunished

The fact that my country is accepting you is fucking terrifying, because of the minorities I mentioned, you are a fucking threat to them

I'm already terrified of nationalism in my country, and the fact that people who laugh at children's bodies and write shit on telegrams are still coming here is even more terrifying, I don't want Poland to be associated with protecting fucking Nazis

[suetravelblog]

Exploring Kraków

[mariacallous]

Eva Szepesi, 92, is traveling this week to the Nazi concentration camp she narrowly survived, where her mother and brother were both murdered.

Szepesi, who grew up in Slovakia and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz alive today. Just 50 of them are expected to be present on Monday at the camp in Poland for a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation — down from 300 a decade ago and 1,000 a decade before that.

The ceremony comes amid widespread anxiety over whether knowledge about the Holocaust is diminishing as the number of Jews who survived it dwindles. For Szepesi, however, the history has lost none of its power.

“Auschwitz will stay with me until the last day, the last moment,” she said.

For the first time, this year’s milestone ceremony will not feature any speeches by politicians. In addition to the survivors who speak, the only other addresses will come from World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder, representing major donors to the memorial site, and historian Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Five years ago, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda was the only politician to speak. This year, he is facing criticism over Poland’s pledge not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant over the Gaza war, in the unlikely event that Netanyahu visits for the ceremony.

“A lot of people are tired of these speeches by officials, functionaries, politicians,” said Yves Kugelmann, the Switzerland-based editor in chief of Aufbau, a magazine started by German-speaking Jewish emigres in 1934. Its newest edition is dedicated to the subject of Auschwitz and memory, and includes contributions by survivors.

“It is important that we have the witnesses talking about what they experienced,” Kugelmann said.

When Soviet troops entered the camp on Jan. 27, 1945, they found 7,000 survivors whom the fleeing SS had left behind.

Twenty years ago, about 1,000 of them attended commemoration ceremonies at the site, in bitter cold. Now, that is the total number of Auschwitz survivors alive worldwide, according to an estimate by the Claims Conference, which negotiates restitution for survivors and recently launched a campaign featuring messages from 80 of them. (The group found last year that there were fewer than 250,000 survivors alive globally.) Most are in their 90s, and relatively few are able to make the trip.

This year’s event is “the last where we will have a visible group of survivors with us,” said Paweł Sawicki, deputy spokesman for the Auschwitz Memorial. “And this is why it is so important to put the entire spotlight on the survivors.”

“They will give the main addresses, and we will not have any politicians giving speeches,” he said, adding, “We do not want to assault this memory by [its] being politically instrumentalized.”

State representatives “will be present, but they will be listening to the voices of survivors,” Sawicki said, noting that it was survivors who in the early postwar years came up with the idea of having a memorial at the site.

Thousands of people are expected to be on hand for the ceremony, which marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (A Jewish and Israeli memorial day for the Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, falls in April.) A heated tent has been set up for participants around the infamous gate to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, historians say, of the estimated 1.3 million people deported to the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1940 to 1945, 1.1 million were murdered there; around 1 million of them were Jews.

For decades, their stories have been told by the few survivors. In the videos shared by the Claims Conference, one survivor, Alfred Sobotka, shares a photo from his bar mitzvah, and points to his father and brother, both gassed on arrival at Auschwitz.

Another, Alice Ginsburg, recalls “the heart-wrenching experience of being separated from my family” forever.

In just a few words, each of them paints a universe lost.

Szepesi, who also appears in a video, was the only survivor from her immediate family. She was only 12 when she was deported to Auschwitz in November 1944, several months after her family had sent her alone into hiding with relatives in Slovakia.

Very few children arriving at Auschwitz survived. She was selected for work, cleaning ammunition. She clung to the hope of being reunited with her family. Liberation came; she later returned to Budapest, where she met her husband, a fellow survivor named Andor Szepesi. They married in 1951, started a family and eventually applied for asylum in what was then West Germany, moving there in 1954.

Eva Szepesi first went back to the site for the commemoration in 1995, convinced by her daughters Judith and Anita. After the ceremony she spoke with students for the first time; they sat cross-legged on the floor in her hotel and listened, rapt.

“I just started and it all bubbled up,” she recalled. Since that time, she has spoken with numerous school groups, particularly in Germany.

“I start with my happy childhood, which was very short” but had a lasting impact, she said. “I received a lot of love.”

She tells them “that when they experience injustice, they should stand up and not remain silent; they should get informed, not believe everything straight away. And you have to be careful that something like that never happens again,” she said, adding that listeners “always tell me, we will be the witnesses of the survivors when they are no longer here; we will pass it on.”

In 2016, she finally learned the fates of her parents and brother. Her granddaughter researched at the Auschwitz archive and found Szepesi’s mother, Valeria Diamant, on a list of murdered Jews.

“I was so scared,” recalled Szepesi, who had accompanied her granddaughter to the archive. As if in a dream, “I saw my mother’s name with my own eyes.” She scanned the list and found her brother’s name, Tamás Diamant, as well.

She had waited 70 years, hoping her mother would come for her. It turned out she had been murdered shortly before Eva arrived at the camp.

“It’s always a terrible thought for me, that she saw from above that her little daughter marched in, into Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau,” she said.

All Eva Szepesi has from her childhood, aside from memories, is a handful of photos that a neighbor had hidden and handed to her uncle, wrapped in a newspaper, after the war. Szepesi looks at them every day, and even sometimes speaks with them.

The shattering knowledge about what happened to her family brought some closure. But she still asks herself: “My little brother was four years younger, and he was murdered. Why am I allowed to live, and he had to die? But I don’t get an answer.”

Educators and Jewish organizations have been working to devise strategies for teaching about the Holocaust when the last survivors with memory of the Holocaust can no longer tell their stories — a prospect that grows nearer by the day. Virtual and augmented reality is increasingly playing a role, as are the children and grandchildren of survivors.

On Monday, Szepesi will be a guest of the World Jewish Congress, accompanied by her younger daughter, Anita Schwarz.

The return to Auschwitz is “like going to visit my grandmother. That is where I actually felt her presence for the first time,” Schwarz said.

“There are so many young people today who don’t know what Auschwitz is, who can’t relate to it at all,” Schwarz added. “Only when you really come to terms with history, and actually with your own family history, can you understand what it means and that you really have to do something, so it doesn’t happen again.”

[problematic-polls]

one of THOSE european presidents gets to be the president of USA (don't ask me how it works). pick your poison

1Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany)

2Emmanuel Macron (France)

3Sergio Mattarella (Italy)

4Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine)

5Andrzej Duda (Poland)

6Klaus Iohannis (Romania)

7Katerina Sakellaropoulou (Greece)

8Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (Portugal)

9Petr Pavel (Czech Republic)

10Aleksandar Vučić (Serbia)

11Tamás Sulyok (Hungary)

12Alexander Van der Bellen (Austria)

[troythecatfish]

Poland will evacuate citizens from Israel

Poland is preparing to send military planes to evacuate its citizens from Israel, as announced by President Andrzej Duda on Sunday, in anticipation of an Iranian strike on the entity.

Source: Mintpress

[allthegeopolitics]

The Polish presidential election will take place on May 18, parliamentary speaker Szymon Hołownia announced Wednesday, adding that if there is a need for a second round, that will take place on June 1. The current president, Andrzej Duda, allied with the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party, will complete his second term this year on Aug. 6 and cannot legally run again. May’s presidential election will be a make-or-break moment for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government. While the president’s role is somewhat symbolic, they can veto bills passed by parliament — an advantage Duda has used to effectively obstruct key legislation.

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[beardedmrbean]

WARSAW, Poland -- WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in Poland and elsewhere along NATO's eastern flank.

A conservative who has long had good ties with U.S. President Donald Trump, Duda also returned to an idea he proposed years ago to create a U.S. military based called “Fort Trump” in his country.

The Trump administration has not announced any plans to pull forces out of the region, but has said Europe must do more to provide for its own security. His administration’s stance has raised questions in the region about whether Washington will maintain its longstanding commitments to NATO partners.

“There are no concerns that the U.S. would reduce the level of its presence in our country, that the U.S. would in any way withdraw from its responsibility or co-responsibility for the security of this part of Europe," Duda told reporters in Warsaw after a meeting with Gen. Keith Kellogg, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. “On the contrary, I hope that thanks to the efforts that President Trump is currently making, the war in Ukraine will end.”

“I will say that in my personal opinion, America has entered the game very strongly when it comes to ending the war in Ukraine. I know President Donald Trump, I know that he is an extremely decisive man and when he acts, he acts in a very determined and usually effective way,” Duda said.

The U.S. deployed troops to Poland after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, but increased the deployment and created a long-term presence there after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There are now about 10,000 U.S. troops based in Poland.

Duda said his assessment was based on conversations he had in recent days, both with Kellogg on Tuesday and with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom he hosted in Warsaw last week.

Duda said Hegseth told him “that we can rather expect a strengthening of the American presence here. We even talked about the fact that I hope that Fort Trump, which we talked about during the first term of President Donald Trump, will really be established.”

Fort Trump was a Polish proposal for a permanent U.S. base in Poland, which Duda spoke of publicly during a visit to the White House in 2018. The base was never created.

Polish officials hope to preserve the U.S. commitment to NATO and its longstanding commitment to security in the region, with fears of Russia growing.

They are convinced that Warsaw's strong alliance with the U.S. and its high level of spending on defense will help its cause. They also hope that their position will allow it to advocate for Ukraine.

“We have told both the Secretary of Defense and General Kellogg clearly and distinctly that it is obvious to us that this war cannot end in a victory for Russia,” Duda said.

He also sought to allay growing concerns in the population in light of shifting priorities under Trump.

“Please don’t be alarmed, the situation is under control,” Duda said, words he said he was directing to Polish society. “Let me assure you that everything is being done in a way that favors the building of peace in our region.”

[gryficowa]

Black people are the best strikers in the world (My translator broke down and translated to the worst ones lol)

In Poland, farmers

Fuck Israel, it still hasn't been banned from sports competitions

Fuck Biden, Harris and Trump, they are Zionists, just like those who elect them

Fuck liberals for ignoring that blue people are blue zionist terrorists because they support LGBT+ and suddenly it's not an issue

Fuck Putin, because he's fucking Putin, a queerphobe and he's attacking Ukraine

Fuck all the musicians who stood for Israel

Fuck Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for remaining silent on Gaza

Fuck Zionists for harassing Jews who support Palestine

Fuck capitalism, because it makes looking for products that don't support Israel is like looking for a needle in a haystack (I live in Poland, I don't have stores as big as the US)

Fuck Poland for queerphobia and silence about Palestine, Sudan and Congo

Fuck Andrzej Duda for supporting Israel and supporting a country that Congo is fighting, which put an innocent Pole in Congo in prison because he was considered a spy and saboteur

Fuck Donald Tusk for wanting to strengthen the wall where civilians are trapped on the border because they were deceived by Lukashenko when they fled the war (Yes, Afghanistan)

Just fuck it all

[theiconicmeghanmarkle]

Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife hosted Team Invictus Poland players at the Presidential Palace. The meeting was an opportunity to thank the players - veterans injured in missions for representing Poland in the Invictus Games competition in Düsseldorf (2023).

[mariacallous]

A group of dozens of Polish American Wisconsinites, including current and former Democratic elected officials, released an open letter Wednesday criticizing former President Donald Trump's comments about Russia's war with Ukraine and backing Vice President Kamala Harris."Earlier this year, Trump said he would encourage Russia to 'do whatever the hell they want' to our NATO allies, and during the debate last week he twice refused to answer a question about whether he wanted Ukraine to win their war," the letter reads. "Polish people in the U.S. and around the world know that our future is tied to Ukraine’s — because after Ukraine, Putin’s next target is Poland."

The letter was signed by more than 60 Polish American Wisconsinites, including Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza, Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz, Milwaukee County Board Supervisor Justin Bielinski and Portage County Board Supervisor Shaun Przybylski.

The letter comes as both Harris and Trump are working to win support from Polish American voters.

During last week's debate, held in Philadelphia, Harris appealed to the 800,000 Polish-Americans who reside in Pennsylvania as she criticized Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and comments about the war in Ukraine.

And this weekend, Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event in Pennsylvania.

The Trump campaign responded to questions about the letter by criticizing Harris' foreign policy experience and saying she and President Joe Biden had “emboldened our adversaries" and worsened conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Kamala Harris is dangerously liberal and there is zero doubt that America will be a more dangerous place if she was our Commander in Chief," Karoline Leavitt, Trump Campaign press secretary, said in a statement.

[theroyalweekly]

William also met with Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, to “express his thanks to the Polish people for their ongoing generosity and hospitality in these turbulent times”. He was accomanied by British ambassador Anna Clunes and his private secretary, Jean-Christophe Gray. -- Rebecca English

[world-of-wales]

THE PRINCE DIARIES ♚

23 MARCH 2023 || Day 2 Poland Visit - Meeting The Polish President, Presidential Palace

The Prince of Wales met the Polish President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on the second day of his trip to Poland.

During the meeting Prince William thanked him for the Polish aid to Ukrainian war refugees. They also discussed how the United Kingdom and Poland can cooperate to provide the best help to Ukraine.

[head-post]

Poland granted Netanyahu safe entry despite ICC arrest warrant

The Polish government passed a resolution ensuring the free and safe participation of Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Last November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other officials, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the ongoing war in Gaza. Under the warrant, ICC member states, including Poland, are obliged to arrest wanted individuals as soon as they enter the territory of a signatory country.

The decision by the government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk contradicts its obligations to the court. The administration announced it would allow Israeli leaders safe passage to the event, as it was a tribute to the millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

The decision may represent a concession to President Andrzej Duda, who has publicly called for safe passage for Israeli leaders, sending a formal letter of request to Tusk. The two are currently embroiled in a public spat which threatens to overshadow Poland’s presidency at the EU Council.

However, Israeli media reported that Netanyahu had not received an invitation. Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Ministry said it had not received any information that he would attend the event. The ministry added that any information that Netanyahu might be arrested upon entering Poland was fake news.

On 27 January, the leaders are due to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. On this day, in 1945, it was liberated by Soviet troops. Today, the site of the camp is a memorial to the more than one million people who perished there during the World War II.

Read more HERE

[agentfascinateur]

President Andrzej Duda wrote PM Donald Tusk saying Poland should ensure Netanyahu can be "unhindered" in attending the Jan. 27 Auschwitz commemoration given the event's exceptional nature.

#exceptionalism is how we got here

#arrest Netanyahu

[stillunusual]

Israeli Telegram channel refers to a humanitarian aid worker killed by the IDF as a "Polish Nazi"…. The above image was posted on an Israeli Telegram channel called "Terrorists From A Different Perspective", which features pictures of people killed by the Israeli Defence Forces and makes fun of them and their deaths.

When I checked it out on 5th April 2024, the channel had 126,000 subscribers.

The photo shows the dead body of Damian Soból, one of seven humanitarian aid workers killed on 1st April 2024 by an Israeli drone, which fired three missiles at a World Central Kitchen convoy that was escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The convoy’s route was pre-approved and registered with the IDF.

According to Haaretz.com: …."at some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile. Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car. The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them"….

Damian Soból was from Przemyśl, in Poland. He was 35 years old and had also previously provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The other six victims included citizens of Australia, the UK and the USA.

The Hebrew text underneath the image translates as follows: "Let's say good morning to the Polish scum who is now together with his ancestors, Adolf Hitler's soldiers, deep in the furnace of hell. Rumour has it that after his death the name of the Polish Nazi was changed to Robert Lewandowski"….

The posting of this image and the emojis at the bottom of the screen speak volumes about the delightful folks who subscribe to this channel.

Leaving aside how despicable you'd have to be to gloat about Soból's death, referring to his ancestors as "Adolf Hitler's soldiers" and calling him a "Polish Nazi" is also a calculated insult to the millions of Polish slavic victims of Nazi Germany that's beyond obscene.

The targeted killing of Damian Soból and his fellow aid workers understandably caused public outrage in Poland, after which the Israeli ambassador Yacov Livne appeared on Polish TV to deliver a few half hearted words of condolence (referring to the attack as an "operational error") while playing the victim and whining about antisemitism. When asked about the high levels of anti-Polish sentiment in Israel, he claimed it doesn't exist….

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a “tragic mistake” and promised a “transparent investigation”….

However, World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés had no doubt that "Israel systematically targeted our volunteers, vehicle by vehicle. This was not a mistake. It was an execution"....

UPDATE

Poland demanded a full investigation and compensation for Soból's family. Polish president Andrzej Duda called for accountability. Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski pressed Israel for a response.

Israel eventually responded by confirming that there had been an investigation but its report is classified and there will be no compensation. Needless to say that Soból's killers will never face justice….

[usafphantom2]

Russian cruise missile violated Polish airspace

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/30/2023 - 12:15 in Military, War Zones

On December 29, a cruise missile launched by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation violated Polish airspace during a target attack in Ukraine.

The incident occurred at 7:12 a.m. local time, near the Poland-Ukraine border. According to the Polish Armed Forces, the missile re-entered Ukrainian territory after approximately three minutes in Poland's airspace.

Map showing the place where the Russian cruise missile would have entered Polish airspace on December 29. (BBC infographic)

In the X, the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said that the object entered through the Ukrainian side of the border and was observed by the country's air defense system, penetrating about 24 miles into Polish airspace and disappearing after less than three minutes. He also stated that air defense troops were mobilized to identify and find the object.

The flight trajectory of the missile was continuously monitored by Polish and Allied radar systems. Polish air defense systems were in readiness and F-16C/D fighters were sent to patrol the area where the missile crossed Polish airspace.

In addition, to verify the radar data, ground forces, air forces and territorial defense troops were mobilized to track the trajectory of the missile on the ground.

President Andrzej Duda called an emergency meeting on security; NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg released a statement on X saying he talked to Duda about the “missile incident” and said that NATO remains vigilant and monitoring the situation “as the facts are established.”

This incident was part of a major Russian attack involving twelve Tu-95MS Bear-H bombers, each launching Kh-55/Kh-555/Kh-101 cruise missiles, along with Tu-22M3 Backfire-C bombers that launched eight Kh-22/Kh-32 supersonic cruise missiles. More than 90 cruise missiles were used in the attack, with most allegedly intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense noted that the combined Russian attack used more than 90 cruise missiles of the types mentioned, 36 Shahed-136 attack drones, S-300/400 anti-aircraft missiles in ground attack mode. In addition, five MiG-31K Foxhound fighters each launched a single Kinzhal ballistic missile launched from the air.

Ukrainian authorities said that at least 144 people were injured and that many others probably remained buried under the rubble.

According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yurii Ihnat, Russia “apparently launched everything it had” against targets throughout Ukraine. Surprisingly, the attack did not seem to involve any Kalibr cruise missiles launched by ships or submarines, with long-range Russian bombers bearing the weight of the operation.

Tags: Military AviationWar Zones - Russia/Ukraine

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