Poseł Prawa i Sprawiedliwości, Jan Dziedziczak, stanie na czele polsko-izraelskiej grupy parlamentarnej, której utworzenie ma nastąpić w poniedziałek w Warszawie.
Poseł Jan Dziedziczak / PiS
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Jak pisze dziennik „Jeruzalem Post” do utworzenia grupy lobbystycznej dochodzi 70 lat po Holocauście. Będzie ona pierwszą tego rodzaju grupą w polskim parlamencie. Jej powstanie izraelski dziennik nazywa momentem historycznym.
„W chwili wzrostu antysemityzmu w Europie i na świecie, ta inicjatywa polskich parlamentarzystów, otwartego wsparcia państwa żydowskiego, zaledwie 70-lat po Holocauście, jest wyruszająca” – stwierdza na łamach „Jeruzalem Post” Shai Hermes, szef Światowego Kongresu Żydów, który wraz z delegacją z Izraela będzie uczestniczył w inauguracji nowopowstałej grupy w Warszawie.
Oprócz niego w delegacji z Izraela, która przyjedzie do Warszawy znajdzie się również m.in.: Josh Reinstein, szef grupy chrześcijańskiej w Knesecie i dyrektor Israel Allies Foundation European Andras Patkai. W uroczystościach ma uczestniczyć również ambasador Izraela w Warszawie, Anna Azari.
Stronie polskiej w inauguracji proizraelskiego lobby przewodniczył będzie poseł Prawa i Sprawiedliwości Jan Dziedziczak, w przeszłości rzecznik premiera Jarosława Kaczyńskiego.
„To jest bardzo ważny moment dla dyplomacji opartej na wspólnych wartościach.
Siedemdziesiąt lat po Holocauście musimy zwiększyć nasze wysiłki na rzecz mobilizacji wsparcia dla Izraela. Izrael jest jedynym gwarantem przetrwania dla Żydów” – powiedział Josh Reinstein.
Powstająca w polskim parlamencie proizraelska grupa będzie 32 tego typu inicjatywą w parlamentach różnych krajów świata.
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2005-03-04 14:09 |
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C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 001225
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/04/2015
TAGS: EFIN PHUM KNAR PL
SUBJECT: FOREIGN JEWISH NGOS PROTEST LACK OF CONSULTATIONS
ON POLISH PRIVATE PROPERTY LEGISLATION
REF: A. 2004 WARSAW 1368 B. 2003 WARSAW 4074
Classified By: Political Counselor Mary Curtin, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (SBU) In Warsaw on February 16-17, a World Jewish Restitution Organization delegation discussed private property restitution with the Ambassador, SLD party leader Jozef Oleksy, opposition leader Jan Maria Rokita, Treasury Minister Jacek Socha and Sejm Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. The delegation expressed its dissatisfaction with the GOP,s failure to carry out promises to consult on private property legislation with NGOs. The delegation called the current draft legislation conditionally adopted by the Polish Council of Ministers on February 15 unacceptable as it contains no possibility for in rem restitution and provides for cash compensation at the rate of only 15 percent of current value. They also floated the idea of a separate settlement for Jewish owners.
ŁUMACZENIE
1 . ( SBU ) 16-17 lutego (2005 roku) w Warszawie, DELEGACJA Światowej Żydowskiej Organizacji Restytucji Mienia (World Jewish Restitution Organization) spotkała się i przedyskutowała z Ambasadorem (USA), liderem SLD Józefem Oleksym, liderem opozycji Janem Marią Rokitą, Ministrem Skarbu Panstwa Jackiem Sochą, i Marszałkiem Sejmu Włodzimierzem Cimoszewiczem, sprawę restytucji własności prywatnej (w Polsce). DELEGACJA wyraziła swoje niezadowolenie z działań "Partii Rzadzacej" (GOP) spowodowane niewywiązaniem się z przyżeczenia konsultowania przygotowywanego projektu ustawy reprywatyzacyjnej z Organizacjami Pozarządowymi (NGO). DELEGACJA nazwała projekt ustawy, przyjetej warunkowo 15 lutego (2005 r) przez Polską Radę Ministrów, za nie do zaakceptowania z powodu tego, że nie zawiera on możliwości zwrotu mienia w naturze, zawierając jedynie możliwosc rekompensat finansowych, w wysokosci 15 procent aktualnej wartości nieruchomości. DELEGACJA zaproponowała też aby stworzyć oddzielne "settlement" dla byłych właścicieli nieruchomości (po) żydowskich./ Dwa kolejne dokumenty na stronie /Ciąg dalszy w linku niżej
It is estimated that there are more than 170,000 private properties held in Poland that were wrongfully seized from Jewish victims of the Holocaust and communist terror. The properties have an estimated value of billions of dollars, according to a comprehensive report drawn up by experts from the business sector, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations at the request of the Israeli government.
Despite the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, no viable solution has been found to resolve the critical issue of restitution for the Polish victims of the Holocaust nor the 1968 pogrom.
Poland was among the main victims of Nazi Germany: Six million of its citizens – half of them Jews – were murdered by the Germans. Since regaining its independence in 1989, joining NATO and entering the European Union, Poland has established itself as a model for free and democratic states in Eastern Europe and throughout the world. The free Polish Republic has established exceptionally close and constructive diplomatic relations with Israel and the United States.
Poland’s reputation as a force for moral good would be made greater by reaching a just settlement, acceptable to all parties, on the issue of restitution of private property seized from Polish Jews.
The president of the Polish Republic, Bronislaw Komorowski, stated during the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw that one of the central themes in Poland’s drive to freedom was to put right the account of history that had been corrupted during the communist era. As stressed by the country’s former Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, every post-1989 government of independent Poland has discussed the issue of property restitution, but lacked the determination or political will to finalize and pass these legislative efforts.
Whereas most Central and Eastern European countries have adopted legislation to provide for the restitution of or compensation for confiscated property, Poland still stands out for its failure and lack of political will to fulfill and recognize its responsibility to the victims. Poland must revise this approach by passing comprehensive legislation providing for the complete restitution of assets stolen by the Nazis and the Communist governments. The advanced age of remaining Holocaust survivors makes the matter all the more urgent and the need to act all the more pressing.
The international standards are clear. The overriding principle that emerged in the immediate postwar period in Western Europe and was enacted in Allied decrees and legislation that has continued to this day (see the German Property Law 1990) is that property that was taken from Jewish owners and their heirs must be returned, with interest, to their former Jewish owners. A wrong was committed; the wrong must be remedied.
The European Convention of Human Rights (1953), which the Republic of Poland has ratified, states in Article 1 that “Every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.” The convention makes it absolutely clear that “no one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law.”
These principles were reinforced in the Terezin Declaration of June 2009, ratified by 46 countries including Poland, which established clear guidelines for the restitution of private and communal assets forcibly seized during the Holocaust. The declaration stresses the utmost importance of resolving “private property claims of Holocaust victims concerning immovable property of former owners, heirs or successors, by either in rem restitution or compensation, as may be appropriate, in a fair, comprehensive and nondiscriminatory manner consistent with relevant national law and regulations, as well as international agreements.”
The remaining ghosts of the past must be fought and old offenses must be compensated. It is high time that Poland honors the memory of those who were murdered during the Nazi tyranny, and brings justice to the survivors and their heirs by rectifying the wrongful expropriations of property by the Nazi and Communist regimes.
By intensifying efforts to return the confiscated properties to their rightful owners and by honoring the memory of the past, we safeguard the fundamental principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy – and help ensure that no child in the future will have to learn his childhood heroes were annihilated.
The author is a political scientist, writer and expert on European politics. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
