How do you guys feel about the soviet unions support for israel?

I have heard alot of leftists calling israel a colonialist imperist state but im not here to talk about that. The soviet union actively supported the idea of israel, voted for the 1947 partition plan and was one of the first nations to recognize it as a country, from what I see the only reason the soviets started backing the Arab states is because israel sided with the west during the cold war and it would've been more beneficial for the soviets to ally with the much more oil rich and larger arab states. So what is the general consensus on this amongst socialists?