You see an abstract figure jumping into the abyss.
You look back at the script and shout, "We were already in this movie! Stop and turn the wheel back."
But business is rolling against everything that is perceived as a normal course of history.
We hear this phrase, "the right side of history."
Whoever used that phrase was President Obama.
Apart from the arrogance that puts the speaker as someone who knows that history is progressing.
Progressing somewhere, and he knows where, this is one of those hollow statements that temporarily resolves mental discomfort.
But a country like Israel is required to understand where it is in the vicious circles of this event, of the Russian offensive to occupy Ukraine.
Utilitarian consideration
The moral side is important, but from the moment US President Joe Biden made it clear that the Ukrainian people are the wall Putin encounters, whereas the US will in no way send troops there, it means everyone in the international arena has a utilitarian consideration that is not moral at all.
Even what the US can do without high shoes on the frozen ground, it does not. For example, rise to the heights of Russia's nuclear threat.
Israel is not only facing the bombed-out Babi Yar;
Opposite the city of Proskorov, which was renamed Khmelnitsky.
It stands similar to Ukraine as a border state, a buffer state, in many ways it has a border with Russia in the north.
The Israeli leadership returns to the dilemma that has accompanied the country since its establishment in 1948 - at the height of the previous Cold War.
The heart of Israel was in the West, but without the limited political and military assistance of Soviet Russia, we would not have a state.
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, Ben-Gurion made a pathetic effort to join the alliance with the United States, and even offered to send IDF units to Korea.
This of course did not happen.
American support for Israel was weak.
The Americans were willing to touch the Jewish state with only a 10-foot stick.
Limited financial assistance and arms embargo.
Ben-Gurion paved the way for American alienation during the Eisenhower era and the dangerous hostility of the USSR, was of Western neutrality, similar to Sweden and France, which became an important strategic partner on a rainy day. And of course, the development of the Dimona textile factory.
The right balance
Beginning with the rise of Levy Eshkol in 1963, an era of rapprochement with President Johnson began in the United States. In the face of a Soviet-Arab alliance, including the war on terror. 1967 to 1973, including the Yom Kippur War, this is the period in which the IDF also fought against the USSR. No one can preach to Israel on this issue.
Israel has paid the price for abandoning the line of Western neutrality.
In the last decade, Israel has found the right balance in the world, where Russia is a weaker power than the United States.
The high profile that Israel is displaying in the current campaign is pushing us again to the American side.
An effort is needed to continue to differentiate between the political-strategic dimension and the moral dimension that cries out to us from the soil of Ukraine.
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