Read what you have just written:
"Russia and Japan both invaded us and caused devastation to us; Israel breached the contract with us under its protector's pressure. Does this necessarily place us in a position against any of them?"
You discussed that three matters together. Those are historic incidents that have happened and have impacted on China. What do you expect your audience to react when you list them together one by one? People normally expect similarity of importance when you list those negative incidents one by one. I do not think such expectation is surprising at all. I am not sure why you are surprised.
In addition, what do you expect for China position against any of them???
What is China's position against Japan? Do not we pound their officials year after year for the correct recognition of history: Japan's invasion of China?
How about China's position against Russia? Before U.S.S.R. Collapsed, where did China put its majority army force? Against whom???
As for Israel, such breach of contract was definitely not in the same level of the previous two.
BTW, for your feeling towards Jewish people, you do know you will be attacked by a bunch of hooligans who are pretty much anti-Semitic.
I only show my respect for Jewish contribution to humanity and support their retaliation against terrorists (e.g. hamas) attack, I was already labelled by them as anti-muslim, islam-phobia, non-Chinese, definitely indian pretending to be Chinese, definitely a jew, an american who learned Chinese in the past and etc. So be amazed when you receive similar treatment.
As for Russia's military help towards China, please do not think that is Russia's intention to help us. After U.S.S.R. collapsed, Russia's economy was so bad that it could sell anything it has to get money. China monetary influx into Russia while getting military technology benefited both at that period. Trust me, if Russia had better economy then, it will not sell those military technology to China.
Anyway, I do not advocate clinging to the past as well. The topic is about Iran and Israel.
Did I mention, or even suggest, anything resembling what you conjure up as "forget about those" or "burn the history books"? And does listing those together necessarily amounts to attributing the same weight? Maybe you want to disagree with anyone with a different view without examining carefully whether there's some merits in it, but please quit twisting my words.
Neither Russia, Japan nor Israel I would favor since it is well know there's no permanent friends or enemies; the only thing we should favor is profit. Personally speaking, I harbor not a tiny intimate feeling towards Russia or Japan. I believe territory robbed away by Russia still stamped with the imprint of Chinese dreams, and it would require much more bloodshed to emasculate its aggressiveness and jingoism. And as to the Jewish people, to the contrast, I has always been amazed with the Jewish inspiration of monotheism (though not first monotheism first appeared), Talmud and the great number of talents it produced etc.
But then what? Russia was the main source of China's imported military technology; Japan has played an important role in China's economic boom; Israel's effect is rather limited due to some apparent reasons. I am not talking about being thankful to favor some countries or dissatisfied to dislike some other. I am talking about reality of the present. They are acting in their profit; so is China. And this is what a pragmatic attitude should be based on. History has fermented some kind of emotions towards some country; we have admiration for glorious achievements and despise for atrocious invasions. But we are not counting on such emotions to make any decision, though we need to take into consideration of the public feelings.
So why cling to the past, at the cost of flexibility of policy making and deviation of our purpose? Why do we need to isolate ourselves from Russia and Japan when there's positive prospect of cooperation? The past is over; if it's not over, then the revenge is not near. In the geopolitical sense, Israel is too far from China and too small to be a rival in the future so I believe, without US's hindrance, there would be great mutual benefits. Russia has been and will always be a rival or even threat to China due to its territorial proximity and geological strategic advantage towards China. Japan still has some history issues to meddle with.
Returning to reality, one must weigh the choices and conditions to make policies and decisions, casting those sentiments aside.