To name a few:

- Ethnic differences: Ukrainians and Russians have a lot of shared heritage, while Arabic Jews have largely assimilated into the European settlers, so there is not a lot of shared heritage between Israel and Palestine.

- Size of respective military: While the Russian military is an order of magnitude larger than the Ukrainian one, the Israel army is several orders of magnitude larger than any armed resistance of the Palestinians.

- International recognition: While both the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are internationally recognized Palestinian territory, and the Palestinian Authority is the recognized government of Palestine, Palestine is merely an observer state of the UN, not a full member like Ukraine. And importantly powerful western nations don’t recognize Palestine as a state (even though most of the world does).

- Nature of armed resistance: Palestinian resistance is done by non-state actors using guerilla tactics, while Ukraine has a conventional military controlled by the state.

- Control over territory: Ukraine controlled most of its own territory before the war, Palestine only controlled Gaza, and only partially, and the the limited control was held by a political organization which is distinct from the internationally recognized one.

I think if we want to look for comparisons, we don’t actually need to go all the way back to the crusades, it is enough to look at European colonial warfare post WW2. Where Europe was desperately trying to hold on to their colonies, e.g. in Algeria or Kenya in the 50s, Vietnam in the 60s, Angola in the 70s, etc. Even Northern Ireland in the 90s (although Ireland in the early 20s is more like it).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb actually started his tweet by saying:

> Comparisons between Ukraine and Gaza are bad verbalisms.

Bad indeed.