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The British Army in Cyprus prove colonialism is bad

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  By Eleni Kyprianou While journalist Carol Malone exalted the merits of empire, the British Army confessed to war  crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Proving the effects of British colonialism are still being felt  globally, even in an EU member state. We’ve been bearing witness to the destruction of the Palestinian people since the Nakba in  1948, but never more so than people posting and live-streaming the war crimes committed  against them in the name of colonialism and the expansionist dream of a “Greater Israel” . Earlier in May, Netanyahu declared his plans to “seize all of Gaza” , much to the delight of Louis  Theroux’s latest interviewee in The Settlers , Daniella Weiss, who openly boasted about her  achievements as a settler-coloniser. In March 2022, as Russia launched yet another attack on Ukraine, Malone wrote in The   Express , “There's nothing that can stem our tears over the slaughter of innocents and the  bloody destruction of th...