I think the problem is one of definition: today "settler-colonial" has negative connotations. But it you read Ben-Gurion's writing, or Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, the settler-colonial model was exactly what they had in mind. Likud has a direct lineage to Jabotinsky's Irgun.

Israel is also a very necessary settler-colonial enterprise. Consider how the Allied powers, with the war over & the magnitude of the catastrophe the Jews of Europe underwent becoming apparent, do they lift a finger to help? Do they open their own borders, or expedite immigration to Palestine? Not one bit.

We were on our own.

Jabotinsky acknowledged that Palestine had an indigenous population with deep ties to the land. His mistake, I believe, was in viewing all Arabs as a single "nation", & so Palestine Arabs would have no trouble relocating to some other Arab country.

Perhaps if Israel had offered Palestinians compensation for lands lost, along with a stable, secure & sovereign state in Gaza & the West Bank after '67 they would have accepted. We'll never know.

Pity Biden didn't push hard on Netanyahu & the Kingdom to say to hell with Hamas & proceed with the Abraham Accords... Another might have been, I guess.