
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






























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: