@pairko
History has valuable lessons for us, but modern technology and democracy make drawing inferences from it somewhat tricky nowadays, but there might be some comparison to draw from then to now in that regards.
Israel relates to pre-EU history quite a bit though in another way since it was one of the last big mistakes (neglecting the U.S. imperial mistakes from the 2nd half of the 20th century) from the age of Western Imperialism imo.