Nazi comments derail European summit

JERUSALEM, Middle East - Israel's prime minister met with his Slovakian counterpart on Tuesday in a first set of sit-downs with Eastern European leaders after a high-profile summit was canceled over a rift with Poland.

Benjamin Netanyahu hosted Peter Pellegrini on Tuesday in Jerusalem and was expected to meet Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban before hosting all three for lunch at his official residence.

The meetings are the result of the cancellation of a planned summit of the Visegrad Group, which includes Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, after Poland withdrew to protest Israeli leaders' comments about Poland's complicity in the Holocaust.