That's crazy because Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, definitely defined it as a colonial endeavour.

You should read his book: "The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question", it's quite enlightening on exactly where this movement began and its historical motivations, which is absolutely the same MO as modern Israel.

Also the notion that people who are over 1000 years removed from a piece of land coming to violently remove current residents from their homes and massacre and imprison them for over 70 years isn't colonialism is absolutely ludicrous. Please seriously think about this sentence again. Think about it hard, like, harder than you've ever thought before.

>Arab expansion in the middle east is a colonial endeavor.

It's clear after you typed these first two sentences that you're probably a genocidal maniac, like approximately 57 percent of the Israeli population who believe that the current amount of force used is still not enough.

>Arab countries recognized the Jewish people's legitimate rights in the region and were looking for peace we'd have peace a long time ago.

There is absolutely zero legitimacy to the Zionist regime.