In the case of some countries, there has been a long tradition of philo-semitism and pro-Israeli attitudes. The first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk was a philo-semite and the Czechoslovak Republic was undoubtedly good for Jews; during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948-49, the supply of arms from Czechoslovakia was crucial for Israeli victory.
In 1967-68, the reformed communists in Czechoslovakia were fans of Israel in the Six-Day War, however the Soviets, Brezhnev and the Czechoslovak hard-line communists were fans of the Arab nations, which were allies of the Soviet Union at the time.
After the fall of communism in 1989, President Václav Havel and his advisers were admirers of Israel, and many Czech intellectuals fell in love with Prague Jewish authors like Franz Kafka and others.
That was a specific case of Czech philo-semitism. In other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the unusually friendly attitude to Israel was partly driven by a desire to compensate for anti-Semitism of the past and in order to ensure new democratic nations could never again be accused of such discrimination.
However, these psychological reasons have been relatively minor compared to five other more consequential ones.
Firstly, Israel has been a democratic country and an ally of the West. Arabs (like Syria) and Palestinians (Arafat) were allies of our Soviet oppressors. When communism fell, we Central and Eastern Europeans were liberated from the Soviet yoke and rid of our own communist rulers, leaving us naturally perceiving Israel as our new ally and friend. We wanted to become a part of the democratic West, and Israel had already been a part of the West, so we naturally perceived that country as an ally, much like our stance on the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, etc. We also had little respect for governments in North Korea or Cuba or for pro-Soviet Arab and Palestinian leaders, either.
Simply said, we Central and Eastern Europeans have switched sides from the East to the West in 1989-91.
Secondly, there are considerable Arab/Muslim minorities in Western Europe, which represent a substantial anti-Israeli lobby. If the percentage of Muslim citizens of France is 10 percent (or more) and the percentage of Jewish French citizens is 1 percent (or less), French politicians would gain nothing and lose a lot by being pro-Israeli. The same case exists in Sweden and many other Western European countries. On the other hand, there are almost no Arab-Muslim minorities in Central Eastern Europe, so Central and Eastern European politicians are not captives of their Muslim citizens, unlike their Western European counterparts, who are. This goes a long way to explaining the anti-Israeli bias among Central and Eastern European politicians.

Thirdly, Western European politicians have been keen on coercing Central Eastern European countries to admit Muslim immigrants from North Africa and Middle East, which neither those countries or their citizens want, nor do the immigrants want to live in these areas. The unspoken sentiment in Central Eastern Europe is: you, Western European have made a big mistake by admitting so many Muslim immigrants in the past, and you want to coerce us now to repeat that mistake? No way.
However, there is a non-Muslim majority country in the Middle East, which protects her borders against Muslim would-be immigrants from both Arab countries and Africa. That country is Israel. We admire that. And our support for Israel is a sort of raised middle finger to Western European political elites.
Fourthly, the Western radical left hates the history of Western militaries’ past glories, and is ashamed of the colonial past of the West. It is the strong belief of this radical leftist political ideology that Western countries should never use force against Third World nations and should always apologize. Israel is very successful in protecting herself vigorously against Third World regimes, which have not wished anything good on Israel, so in radical the left’s narrative, Israel is the arch-villain. We in Central Eastern Europe do not have such a strong radical left, which helps explain why we do not consider Israel a villain, but instead a success story.

Fifthly, Israel is a nation-state, for many in Western Europe the concept of nationhood is suspicious (European identity should be preferred to national), but we in Central and Eastern Europe still cherish our national identities after gaining liberty after so many years (40 to 50) under Soviet rule. We see nothing wrong in Israel wishing to remain a Jewish nation state and take measures to preserve her Jewish national character.
Finally, and in elaboration of the last point, both Israel and several Central European nations, especially Hungary and Poland, have had national conservative governments in the past half dozen to almost dozen years. There is an ideological affinity between those national conservative governments.
Poland incumbent government wanted to establish a special relationship with the USA under the Trump administration even if Polish-Israeli relations have cooled in recent times. Trump and his administration were undeniably friendly to Israel, hence Poland’s government wanted to make its best effort to be friendly to Israel, which included hosting a big international conference on the threat of Iran.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been a great admirer of his Israeli counterpart Bibi Netanyahu for years, and there appears to be a huge personal affection between both.
Ten years ago, the Czech Republic was the most pro-Israeli country in Europe. After the last seven years and three socialist ministers of Foreign Affairs — slaving to follow the Western European mainstream on Israel, but opposed by President Zeman — that is no longer the case. Today, the most pro-Israeli country in Europe is Hungary. Who would have had predicted it some 20, 30 years ago?
It’s more than an unfortunate result of the leftist doctrine of the Obama administration. We of the United States are not what Obama and his cronies want the world to see us as. Obama is ashamed of our country. Obama wants to fundamentally change what America stands for. During his first few days in office he returned England’s gift of a bust of Winston Churchill. Intentionally snubbing one of our staunchest allies but that’s his opinion not ours. The fact is that over 75 million of us Americans voted for Trump and we all are generally proud of our nation. We support Israel and we generally will not accept the tenants of the Muslim faith. We as a rule are opposed to mass immigration of Muslims from war torn Muslim nations. We generally understand that their ideology is in direct contrast to the freedoms we love and protect. The constant pounding of the racism drum comes not from the average American citizen but from the radical left elitists who are on a mission to destroy conservative values in our country. We have not capitulated and we will not give in to the evil forces of George Soros and his bought and paid for cronies. Our for sale media is not the voice of the common american citizen. The globalists have taken power but this will not stand. Eventually those who drank the koolaid and bought into this liberal jargon will also come to understand the realities we face. They will see that a man is a man a woman is a woman and calling something by a different label doesn’t alter the facts. In fact if there was no Obama there would never have been a Trump. Trump was a direct response from the American people to the vitriolic nonsense spewed about our nation. We are simply experiencing growing pains. We are facing some of our mistakes from the past. Be not so quick to abandon what has made this world a safer and better place to live. We the people will always triumph over tyrannical rule.
Live is so much BETTER/EASIER when one can HATE, either ONE person or a whole population of a country….!!!!!!! And try to kill them all…..{sarc}. Up to this point in time, I have never seen/witnessed so much HATE and I really DON’T know “what” it is GOOD? for…….All of these HATERS need to be ACHAMED of themselves……
I wish it were so, but I fear the liberals are changing laws for voting to ensure conservatives will rarely, if ever, win in national elections.
In over fifty years of voting (in all national elections) I have never questioned the validity of the results… until now. I fear for the future of my children, grandchildren, and all Americans.
Perhaps, this is the beginning of fulfillment of Biblical last days prophecy.
In any case the future no longer looks bright.