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annadpk t1_iudznpr wrote

It won't. Israel survived this long because it put its interest first. From a foreign policy perspective, there is little gain. What has Ukraine done for Israel?

Secondly, domestically the Israeli government is too divided. Moreover, there are a lot of pro-Russian voices in Israel.

>Scott Lasensky, an Obama administration State Department official who is now a professor of Israel studies at the University of Maryland, said Israelis are predisposed to viewing Putin kindly because of his philosemitism — a friendliness toward Jews that upends centuries of antisemitic hostility from the tsars and then the Soviets.
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>He recalled Putin visiting Israel in 2014, and meeting with his German language tutor, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Israel. (Putin would have needed German as a KGB officer stationed in East Germany.) “They wowed Putin,” Lasensky said of the Israeli government.
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>“It’s a different kind of relationship, and they’ve kept it on the warm side,” Lasensky said, noting that Russia allows Israelis visa-free travel, which the United States does not.
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>Notably, in 2014, when the US spurred a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, Israel absented itself, breaking its practice of voting with the US even on the most obscure issues.

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All_Work_All_Play t1_iug3ljy wrote

I still don't understand why everyone cares what Israel does. But geopolitics isn't my forte by any metric.

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vivainio t1_iueflnl wrote

Israel has survived this long because they have strong friends in the west

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Nileghi t1_iufc0iw wrote

they werent friends with the west until the end of the 60s, long after they survived their most dangerous and existantial wars.

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PurpleSUMFan t1_iufe9qr wrote

I understand the US didn't really help israel much until eisenhower came in but weren't the british and french tight with israel, to the point that the brits and french made a plan with israel of how to deal with the suez canal crisis that involved israel invading and then the other 2 coming in to pretend to break up the fight while actually holding it?

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Nileghi t1_iug1liu wrote

yes, but the US quickly told them to break up with Israel after this incident. The Suez crisis was the last time France and Britain started acting like the superpowers they used to be, and it was a good introduction to them to the superpowers of tommorow USA and Soviet Union.

The USA then proceeded to impose an arms embargo on the entire region, including Israel. Israel then started its own military industrial complex made out of scrap metal.

Its how worldwide global names such as the Uzi came about. A humble weapon constructed in a desert out of scrap metal that won wars.

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