Ukraine as Slavic Palestine

The Saker has one of his posts about historic Ukraine, at Unz. This one is one of his more nuanced takes, and more interesting for it.

The Saker takes the position of an inherent Kiev-Moscow link. Thence, Kiev is more than just a "borderland" (the literal meaning of Ukraine). As for the schismatic state of Kiev today: the Saker deems the Lithuanian / Polish Republic an occupant force, until (famously) dismembered. The Jews and Poles and Papists are to blame for preventing the glorious reunion of all the Russias.

(Poland herself, it would follow, does not belong to Mother Russia - despite that Polish is a Russian(ish) language. Ditto Lithuania... ditto (most of) Latvia and Estonia. Some Russians see Poland as a Prussic race ruined beyond repair by the Teutonic Crusade. Some see Latvia and Estonia as East Slavic lands overrun by Lietuvans and Finns, respectively. Some Russians lay claim to common R1a ancestry for all Balts and Slavs, down to Serbia. And of course there survive Karelian outposts, and Finland herself. Now: I don't see The Saker in this extreme of pan-Balto-Slavic Muskovite / R1a nationalism. I just note that this extreme exists and does need seeing.)

Given what The Saker does believe of Kiev, it is fair to note analogies - to how Israelis and Zionists view the Palestinians.

Here were a rabble living on an imperial frontier, of no real interest to anybody, and too clannish to unite for their own interest beyond the occasional tax revolt. Along comes the land's "rightful" master. Now the locals unite, more or less; claiming their own identity. The land's new master cries foul. "The Ukrainian Delusion", the master scoffs.

One of the more unsightly parallels is that the local villeins-turned-nationalists latch on to full-on hatred of the Jewish people. I could understand it of Palestine; less so of Ukraine. I trust The Saker (channeling Solzhenitsyn) to explain why in the latter case - which is after all the main point of his essay.

Also true of both places: each local populace does own a history, and genetic continuity, independent of the history and ancestry of that nation now claiming their land. Kiev's history is more internally coherent than is that of Aramaeo-Arabic Palaestina Prima. The bad news for Russians laying claim to pre-Lithuanian Kiev is that its empire wasn't Ukrainian. Norsemen ruled it, likely with the aid of local Goths and, later, the English(!). The Slavs just worked there. Like Circassians.