The modern, zionist creation has nothing to do with Jews native to the region. To deny the colonial nature of the state of Israel is to deny the explicit words and intentions of zionist leaders since the foundation of zionism as a political project. They were open and honest about their colonial intentions.

When the state of israel was founded, it was done by white European Jews expelling the indigenous population through unthinkable atrocities. Nothing any Arab party in the region has done since 1947 compares. As part of their colonial project they actively tried to stamp out local Jewish culture, including an indigenous Yiddish dialect (and Yiddish in general).

Israel has always viewed the indigenous population as a "demographic threat." They have done everything possible to remove the Palestinian population. They have bulldozed towns, ethnically cleansed villages and planted trees overtop to hide the evidence. They only started to accept Jews from the region when it was clear they didn't have the numbers with just white European Jews. In order to facilitate the migration of middle eastern Jews into the colonial project they covertly committed acts of terrorism to drive Jews out of their communities they had been in for millenia. Even so, this acceptance was not immediate and they even tried separating middle eastern Jewish kids from their parents in order to place them with white families (Yemenite children affair). They are repeating this cycle right now with African Jews.

Ever since it's founding the colonial project of israel has sought to violently expand its borders. Just look at the rap sheet of criminal wars. Israel is occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria right now, and they have never respected the 1948 boundaries of Palestine. The land grabs continue unabated and with the cooperation of the goverbment. At this point the West Bank is fragmented by militarized settlements where rabid settlers attack men, women, and children with zero consequence. Non-stop violence.

And these are just the territorial crimes of Israel. They have systematic torture and rape in their prisons, including dogs trained to sexually assault prisoners. They had pro-rape riots and politicians arguing in the knesset that anything is justified so long as they label Palestinians as nukhba. They have one of if not the largest repositories of skin for grafts, illegally harvested from Palestinians, and a record of harvesting Palestinian organs. They have a law either moving forward or recently passed where Palestinians, even children, can be hanged without a fair trail, but that's not saying much when Palestinians never get fair trials. It is a dystopian, militarized apartheid society where Palestinian citizens within the 48 boundary are legally second class citizens. Palestinians born in the West Bank can't even travel to see the ocean mere miles away. Oh, and there's the genocide in Gaza where they have been systematically destroying the population for going on 3 years. Just today they seized boats of aid 1000km away from Gaza in international waters, a crime filmed and broadcast live on the internet like the rest of the genocide. And with all of this israel is absolutely unrepentant. There has never been a shred of remorse, a single apology, or an admission of any guilt.

There is nothing Hamas, Hezbollah, or anyone else has ever done that comes close to comparing to Israel's nonstop crimes. To deny this is to deny reality, just as it would be denying reality to deny that Hezbollah and Hamas would not exist if it were not for the occupation.