AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

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    That doesn’t make Israel a colony of anybody’s. Is Saudi Arabia a colony of the US? Is the CAR a colony of Russia?

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      Reasons why it’s a Western colony and your accusation of racism (not antisemitism?) is absurd:

      $12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.

      Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.

      Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.

      Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.

      Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.

      Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival

      Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.

      Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.

      Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzl as a “rampart of Europe against Asia”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” justification of Western colonialism.

      Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.

      As Biden famously said. “If there was no Israel, we would have to invent an Israel.”

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        $12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.

        This is true but hardly makes them a colony.

        Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.

        Also true, but this doesn’t make them a colony. Saudi Arabia depends on western arms too. Are they a colony?

        Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.

        As is the whole region (either to the west, Russia, or China)

        Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.

        Does this make NATO a colony?

        Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.

        Does this make Pakistan a Chinese colony?

        Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival

        Does this make Kosovo a colony?

        Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.

        Does this make Saudi Arabia a colony?

        Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.

        Phew, good thing we’re not being racist here, eh?

        Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzel as a “bulwark of Western civilization against Oriental savagery”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” of Western Empires.

        That makes Israel imperialist, but doesn’t make them a colony.

        Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.

        If this is true, why do Arab states prefer to normalize relations with Israel rather than help Palestinians? They are at least as complicit in this genocide as “the west”.

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      Israel was created by the West from the British colony of Palestine. So yeah? How is that racist btw?

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        No, it was not. Israel was recommended by the UN, after which Arab states revolted and tried to expel Jews form the region. The latter won the war and declared the creation of Israel. That in no way makes it a colony of the UK or “the west”.

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          “Recommended by the UN” is the exact same fucking thing as “created by the west.” Who do you think holds and has historically held power at the UN besides all the same colonial powers of the west? An absurd lie to claim this distinction is a difference.

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          From the Oxford dictionary:

          Colony
          noun

          1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

          2. a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.

          An area in another country “recommended by the UN” that is then progressively inhabited by settlers moving from other countries. Totally not a colony at all, not one bit.

          /s