Nothing has changed in the last 55 years, until the nineties, the Israeli/Palestinian hot spot was kept alive at the insistence of the eastern block, to keep instability in th middle east. Mind you, in 1947, the Soviets recognized Israel first and "de jure" not like we did "de facto", not because Stalin loved Jews, mind you. In 1947, Israel was almost a "socialist" country, the leadership was all from "kibbutzes" (essentially a "communist" way of life), and the Soviet were hoping to create a mid-eastern Cuba. The Soviet block led the breaking of the arms embargo on the mid east in 1947 by using Chechoslovakia as the main supplier of arms to the struggling state (the Brits supplied the Arab side, but that is another story). By 1953, just before his death, Stalin finally realized that Israel is evolving into a true western democracy and will not be turned to the Soviet side and thus he changed the policy and started supporting anticolonialist movements in the Arab world, to do that, they had to take an anti Israel stance, which they did. They were the body instigating the "regulation" that refugee camps should be kept as refugee camps by the UN and not allow these populations of displaced persons to be absorbed by the local populations (as the Israeli absorbed all the Jewish Arab refugees from the neighboring Arab countries). A hot middle east served an old Russian international policy that if they cannot control their soft southern belly, they would want it to be unstable.
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