IMO this has nothing to do with Palestine. It's all to do with the wider fight between the East and the West. Israel and the Palestinians are just he pawns in the middle.
Russia has been stirring up anti Israel and by extension anti West sentiment in the Middle East since the cold war!
"In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me [Pacepa], a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-‐style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe. "According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-‐hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-‐Leninist thought. Islamic anti-‐Semitism ran deep.
"In the mid 1970s, the KGB ordered my [Rumanian intelligence] service, the DIE — along with other East European sister services — to scour the country for trusted party activists belonging to various Islamic ethnic groups, train them in disinformation and terrorist operations, and infiltrate them into the countries of our "sphere of influence." Their task was to export a rabid, demented hatred for American Zionism by manipulating the ancestral abhorrence for Jews felt by the people in that part of the world. Before I left Romania for good, in 1978, my DIE had dispatched around 500 such undercover agents to Islamic countries. According to a rough estimate received from Moscow, by 1978 the whole Soviet-‐bloc intelligence community had sent some 4,000 such agents of influence into the Islamic world.
