Over the weekend, the Ukrainian president shouted in his moderate way that he wants his country to be part of NATO, but in Europe he says they are evading an answer. The delicate wording of Zelenskyy's desperate appeal to accept his country as part of the West, thus saving it, was subtle because it was probably clear to Zelenskyy that Europe would do to Ukraine what the United States Canada and Cuba did to the ship St. Louis, in 1939, six months before the tyrant invaded Polan. Zelenskyy does not want to destroy ties. The fate of his country depends on his recipients. The American ports then in the middle of 1939 answered in the negative to the captain of the ship with 937 Jews to anchor in their territory, and in the same spirit the NATO countries of 2022 suggested over the weekend in their silence to Zelenskyy continue to search for port, so that his ship is now sailing in a stormy sea, in front of the Russian armies, and according to reports Putin is already in Kharkiv, and Europe and the United States agree that no forces should be sent to save Ukraine.

Europe did not surprise anyone with this behavior, as the Machiavellian policy is deeply engraved in its culture, and it does not see the policy as a people, but as a principality. but our question as Israelis is whether the Israeli response, which also actually instructed Ukraine to continue sailing, is also engraved in Israeli culture, or is it a distinctly authentic European culture in the Israeli sense, brought to Israel by the children and grandchildren of European Jews who cried out in vain for safe land From 1933 to 1939; since this European culture has dominated Israeli existence since the founding of modern Israel, it has gained a foothold here as Israel's political culture, and from it even derives the decision regarding Ukraine. or is it really a decision that every life-seeking country, European or non-European, would have made.

To this end, one must ask, of course, whether the culture of the Jewish East was governed by Israeli existence, and not the culture of the Jewish West, whether the outcome towards Ukraine was different. Well, not sure the result was any different. Oriental political culture would probably go as the first source for the Babylonian Talmud, that is, to the books written by the Jewish East, which looked at human society and not necessarily the principalities, or in other words they looked at man and not necessarily at authority. A culture that located values after consideration of all constraints, rather than abandoning Machiavellian abandonment retroactively the exhausting discussion of all reflections of reality beyond the one-value field, in this case policy although it is clear that the profound Talmudic revelation that every problem has a multilayered scale of considerations, and it is possible that even after an in-depth discussion there will be no clear result, and would have to rule simply without unnecessary effort, would have also been expressed in an Oriental cultural debate.

In any case, the editors of the Talmud would probably look at the culture that would clear its justifications for sending St. Louis to the sea, and say of the book that guided it: that it is a shallow, one-dimensional, placid book, which does not attempt to find a new channel in the impossible political and human life, but formulates what is required and self-evident from the relations of states, and the narrow human political character, while renouncing any meaningless intellectual struggle; Just as Israel quickly gave up on Ukraine over the weekend, sending it like Europe to look for another port.