(Political) How come even though there happens to be more Palestinians living in Ukraine than in Russia, but Ukraine supports Israel and Russia largely supports Palestine, though maintaining a well established diplomatic relationship with Israel. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇱🇵🇸

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1. my impression has been that the US is welded to Israel at the hip in a suicide pact, willing to destroy the international order they’ve built up for fifty years if necessary to support Israel to the bitter end

   Ukraine desperately needs western support.

   Criticizing the United State’s support for Israel will make things more inconvenient for US politicians, who in turn, will be less disposed to assist Ukraine.

   Therefore, Ukraine is pro Israel.

   I’d add more; Israel and Palestine is a pretty close 1:1 to Russia and Ukraine. But Ukraine is fighting for their fucking lives, man, and Palestine really doesn’t offer much. Sure, they don’t deserve to get exterminated because they don’t offer much, but Israel is high tech, has a robust defense and security industrial complexes, access to top notch US tech, is a primary competitor for things like AD missiles but also a independent producer of AD missiles, jamming technology, etc etc. There are material benefits (or potential material benefits, at least) to staying buddy-buddy with Israel.

   One of the likely outcomes is a frozen conflict at the end, a permanent militarized border a la Koreas, or Israel. That, too, is a reason to be interested in Israel’s security industrial complex.

2. A large part of Israel’s population emigrated from Ukraine. Many Jews live at least part of the year in Ukraine because many of their prominent rabbis came from there-the Lubavitch, for example. Ukraine’s history is very intertwined with Jewish history in Eastern Europe. 

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