BFR said:
How is this for an answer: Maybe because people are sick and tired of hearing about conflict between Jews and Palestinians. They've been fighting each other for thousands of years, and guess what, a thousand years from now they will still be fighting each other. Whereas conflict between Russia and Ukraine has much less history.
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You mean Europeans have been fighting Jews for thousands of years...
It were the Romans that first messed up the area, see all the Roman ruins in Israel, West Bank, Lebanon, etc. Jews and Palestinians (or rather indigenous tribes) were living fine alongside until the British encouraged the creation of an ethnocentric state under the guise of Zionism.
Ukraine goes back to at least the 4th century, and first got displaced by the Mongols, then taken by Russia.
Slavic tribes settled there after the 4th century. Kyiv was the chief town. The Mongol conquest in the mid-13th century decisively ended Kyivan power. From the 14th to the 18th century, portions of Ukraine were ruled by Lithuania, Poland, and Russia.
The area that is today the country of Russia has been inhabited by people for thousands of years. The first modern state in Russia was founded in 862 by King Rurik of the Rus, who was made the ruler of Novgorod. Some years later, the Rus conquered the city of Kiev and started the kingdom of the Kievan Rus.
In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917, most of the Ukrainian region became a republic of the Soviet Union, though parts of western Ukraine were divided between Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia.
The conflict between Palestinians and Jews started in the 1930's
Before the Nakba, Palestine was a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society. However, the conflict between Arabs and Jews intensified in the 1930s with the increase of Jewish immigration, driven by persecution in Europe, and with the Zionist movement aiming to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
