So, your argument based on settlement colonialism, is that Israel belongs to the Jews, since prior to its conquest and colonization by various nations, it was an independent Jewish state?

Or are you conveniently skipping all of history subsequent to the Arab Conquest and conversion of Israel to a Muslim state through a combination of colonial settlements combined with forced conversion?

History if full of settlement by conquest. However, it would be wrong to refer to the more recent Jewish migration to Israel as colonialism, since colonialism inherently refers to a mother country... instead, the Jewish migration to Israel was a "return" of Jews to the land of Abraham.

While their dispersion around the world for centuries produced significant intermarrying with indigenous populations, Israel remained their homeland.

To refer to the Jewish return to Palestine as "colonialism" is a misrepresentation. What is the "mother" country of the Jews? I don't know any Brits, who during their national holiday say "next year in India".

Let's be honest. Israel throughout history was the land of the Jews until the Arab Conquest. At that point the colonizers, Arabs and subsequently Ottomans attempted to convert it to an Islamic province within their empires. Upon its liberation, Jews returned, and the Arab colonizers resisted.

I don't blame the Palestinian colonizers for wanting to remain on the land, their forefathers colonized, not the Jews for wanting the return of their country.

But arguing Palestinians are the indigenous people of Israel is like arguing whites have become the indigenous people of the US.