>>17936132
>The Soviet Union created it in the 1940s by financing Jewish terrorists and helping send Russian Jews there
That's not really accurate. Yes and no. I'm not aware of any financing, and the Soviets didn't let Russian Jews leave, they organized and set up the draining of 300,000 Jews from Eastern Europe (most of them Poles and Romanians, smaller amounts from the other countries) to Israel. This was the biggest thing they did to help Israel directly at the start, along with diplomatic support. The partition of the territory was supported by the Soviet Union and the United States.

One of the reasons for this is that they saw the Jews as anti-British, and were suspicious of pan-Arabism at this time because they thought it was a British thing. And they wanted to solve a problem where there were these Jews sitting around in camps in Eastern Europe. Most of them had their property taken from them during the war by fascist governments, and they didn't want to go around kicking Poles out of their apartments and giving them back to their former Jewish owners. It would've been a big mess. Also there were still a lot of antisemites in Eastern Europe.

But it's a historical irony if that it was more of a lefty cause then. If you were a tankie in '48, you probably would've been militantly pro-Israel.

>>17936077
>A. It was Czechoslovakia which directly supported Israel against the arabs, not the USSR
That's true, but the USSR knew what was going on, and could've intervened to stop Czechoslovakia, and didn't do so. The Soviet government was very sensitive about it. They thought it would cause a big uproar and make them look bad, and were also well aware of "Judeo-Bolshevik theories" and didn't want to be directly linked to any arms sales. It'd be like "oh Jesus there's Karl Marx and the Jew teaming up to destroy the world again..."

>B. France offered more support than the communists did so even if your original point was correct it wouldn't matter
In the 50s/60s.