“Someone please bring me up to speed as to why Russia/USSR has consistently worked to destroy Israel.”
Outpost of US/democratic influence in the “Arab world.” USSR invested many resources in former British colonial possessions as they crumbled, or later as under Qaddafiyeh. Iraq, after the Baghdad Pact was abrogated by the Ba’ath in ’63, Assad in Syria, PLO-PFLP-assorted Pali groups, probably Iranian revolution, the Tudeh parties in Iran and Afghanistan (yes I know they’re not in the Arad world).
Plus as kabud points out – I see what you were saying now kabud – Jew-hatred is a very reliable organizing principle for a wide variety of groups in large parts of the world.
Also remember Yemen was under Soviet influence for a very long time – and witness the civil war going on there now.
But mostly US influence, strategically speaking. So we pay Mubarak and King Hussein billions a year for patronage, we maintain the House of Saud and the Gulf emirates. And we support Israel – which by the way only began to take the form of massive armaments & etc. after Israel’s victory in 1967.
