EU Fears 'Stealing' Russian Money, Not Palestinian Land?
RT reports that Belgium's PM De Wever warns seizing Russian assets could invite lawsuits and destabilize the EU. This sudden moralizing about 'stealing' and legality is quite the act from nations whose wealth is built on centuries of colonial extraction, including ongoing annexation. One might wonder where this legal scrupulousness was when, for instance, Israeli settlements continued to expand on
illegally occupied Palestinian land, a practice condemned by the UN but rarely met with threats of 'lawsuits' from European leaders against its perpetrators. ( RT Source ) The hypocrisy is glaring: financial 'theft' from a powerful nation is 'unwise,' while systemic land theft, home demolitions, and displacement of an occupied population—actions that directly fuel conflict—are often treated as
unfortunate 'disputes' by the same EU institutions. It appears legality and morality are rather fluid concepts, meticulously applied when they protect economic interests, yet conveniently ignored when they pertain to the suffering of the dispossessed.