https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2017/11/who-saved-israel-in-1947/
After all, the Jewish people has been closely linked with Palestine for a considerable period in history. Apart from that . . . we must not overlook the position in which the Jewish people found themselves as a result of the recent world war. . . . The solution of the Palestine problem into two separate states will be of profound historical significance, because this decision will meet the legitimate demands of the Jewish people, hundreds of thousands of whom, as you know, are still without a country, without homes, having found temporary shelter only in special camps in some Western European countries.
The Soviet Union voted “yes” for partition, as did its satellites Belorussia, Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. (Yugoslavia, another satellite, abstained.)
“They saved the country, I have no doubt of that,” Ben-Gurion would say two decades later. “The Czech arms deal was the greatest help, it saved us and without it I very much doubt if we could have survived the first month.” Golda Meir, in her memoirs, similarly wrote that without the arms from the Eastern bloc, “I do not know whether we actually could have held out until the tide changed, as it did by June 1948.”
Probably becayse most countries don’t give a crap about principle and are a heck of a lot more pragmatic than you would think. At the time Israel was fairly left leaning, one of the most left leaning countries outside the Eastern block. The kibbutz that were attacked on the 7th of October were a prime example of the small collectively owned communities that existed at the time. They were probably useful as a potential ally for the USSR and a heck of a lot more acceptable than the “backwards” conservative societies that surrounded it to Stalin
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