Israel’s warm ties with nations that duck their Holocaust crimes – Red-carpet treatment for Croatia’s president, whose approach to past war crimes is at best ambivalent, is an affront to victims of former Nazi collaborators | Timesofisrael

The recent visit to Israel by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović has once again focused attention on one of the more difficult dilemmas facing Israeli foreign policy. How should Jerusalem treat countries which are increasingly friendly to the Jewish state, want to strengthen bilateral relations, and occasionally even vote against, or at least abstain on anti-Israel resolutions in international forums, but have a bloody Holocaust past, which they have failed to confront honestly, and as a result, a badly strained relation with their own Jewish community?