Speaking of Israel...

[Husar]

I was including the Italian, Portugese, Belgian colonies in my assessment. Had those German colonies been British, the atrocities would not have happened to the extent that they did, if only due to Britain having already reformed in response to it's own set of atrocities in the preceding centuries.

Reformed? We began this by talking about how Britain ruined the Middle East after WW1...
The idea that everybody should hand over their colonies to Britain and bow in submission because Britain "invented" or "mastered" the submission of large parts of the planet is pretty ludicrous. The idea to focus on our own matters and not get colonies at all was a much better one.

Matter of opinion apparantly, though I could not think of a different set of labels to seperate Britain from the rest of the European colonisers.

It's just more British exceptionalism, or at least it sounds like it is.

We also invented the Maxim machine gun, doesnt mean we always obeyed it's mindless chatter any more than we did the capitalists; that you king did, well, buyer beware and all that.

With that argument you could also sell guns to children...