Israel is a settlement or more specially a colonization. Look at the maps. Jews were 10% or less of the area with commensurate land holdings 100 years ago.
“And so two basic parameters which are in fact constant seem to characterize the region of Palestine. The first is the absence of permanent boundaries for the State of Israel and its corollary, the policy of territorial occupation. It was this policy which led, immediately after the military operations of 1948, to land acquisition by seizure through the establishment of Kibbutzim and Jewish settlements.
After the military operations of 1948 and before the signing of the Armistice Agreements, the State of Israel had taken over the sub-districts of Jaffa, Ramleh, Haifa, Nazareth, Beisan and Tiberias and a substantial part of those of Acre and Safad. The Jewish forces were also occupying the coastal area of the sub-district of Tulkarm and the western sector of Jerusalem. Thus, about 20 million dunams of land in all, 7/ including some of the land reserved for the Arabs in the 1947 partition plan, that is to say, just over three-quarters of all the land in Palestine, came under the control of the military forces of the State of Israel.” From the UN on the question of Palestine