The horrible fact is that the entirety of Western civilisation has been founded on terror and genocide - millions of totally innocent people were deliberately and calulatededly slaughtered -on Turtle Island, Australasia, India, etc etc, across the past 500 or so years... this is what settler colonialism has always been about - the elites of the Western powers just disguised it with fancy words like 'Renaissance, and 'Enlightenment'... but the goal of expanding beyond West European borders, to take over lands on distant continents involved the same sort of barbaric actions we are seeing in Gaza now. Different technology, same bloodshed of innocents, simply to gain land and steal resources.