And because there is really no dividing line between colonialism and the counter-colonization Western Europe is experiencing today, Johnson's observation applies with at least partial validity to modern South Africa, Israel, France and the Scandinavian countries.Saved by the "at least partial validity"! Saved from the ravages of one maniac straw man, from the cue of geography ripping through the felt, from one fatal presunpt.
The straw madman is "really no dividing line". Colonialism and "counter-colonalism" are sociological species so different they cannot mate and produce killer porpoises or even sterile mules. There sure is a dividing line.
The felt ripping cue of geography is miscued when comparing western Europe with South Africa and with Israel. Israel's Jewish population is largely Sepharidic, not western European Ashkenaz.
And the presumpt taken felos de se is that Israel can ever be lumped in with any other nation or place. It cannot, it is unqiue, whatever happens there is always sui generis.
European unemployment is often cited at 10%, but yesterday I saw another very ominous statistic. GDP in
France and Germany fell 20% over the last ten years. That is one reason our trade balance is out of whack, They don't have the money to buy anything from us.