News is from last year, but it’s still dystopic for anyone that missed it:
At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”
on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.
The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”
Israel is a European & American colony, so it is a very pertinent question to the EU.
Kinda seems like the other way around
Colony is certainly the wrong term here. Israel is hardly getting exploited by Europe or the US, nor is Israel being settled by a Europeans and/or US Americans in general. While one could make the point that those settlers have been Europeans/US Americans, that is not really how they viewed themselves or what was their motivation either.
My bad. Should have written settler colony. The first “Israelis” (of the modern state) were settlers from Europe & America. They replaced the indigenous people there. Early zionist thinkers were clear that zionism was a colonial endeavor and were insipired by European colonialism. What their motivations were is irrelevant, as the methods and the end effect was the same.
There is a long list of proof for this argument in BE’s video
They don’t consider themselves European however and haven’t really when the settled there either. So they might be colonists from Europe/the US but they are not European colonists. Yes, European colonial powers sold land that wasn’t theirs for that but that doesn’t change that point. Zionists don’t see themselves as Europeans. If they were inspired by European colonialism? Not saying they weren’t.
This isn’t about motivation. Israel is simply not a European colony, which European capital exploits and controls it after all?
In the age of global capitalism, chests of riches don’t need to be delivered to the empire’s capital. They are distributed among capitalists that profit from the region, like NVIDIA and many others, some of which have also been called out in the UN.
Besides, settler colonialism, unlike extractive colonialism, doesn’t necessarily result in the subordination of the newly created society. The USA, Canada and Australia are still useful to European interests even centuries after their creation. In fact they’ve formed a major world block (including Israel) that is aligned in almost everything:
The USA, Canada and Australia were all exploited by the crown, when it still had a strong control over them.