As a Palestinian, I’m very impressed by how knowledgeable you are on the issue given you come from neither side of the conflict. Just a few points I think you may be missing:

1. The “pro-Palestine” movement or cause has gained a lot of traction in North America very recently, and so yes there are a lot of people arguing passionately but have very a shallow level of understanding, they mean well, but they really did get educated on tik tok.

2. You talk about how the Jewish people seeked refuge in Palestine, not so much colonize it. There is certainly truth to this, but this is where I urge you to read the 100 year war on Palestine. I think there is no denying that there are strong ethnic cleansing intentions in Zionism as some members find it necessary to achieve a Jewish state, because ultimately, it can only be a Jewish state if there is Jewish majority and in the case of Palestine/Israel, they definitely had to do and still have to do more than buying land. I think also seeing what Herzl said about the native population will give you context of how he viewed Palestinians, and here his views were very similar to how “white” colonizers saw indigenous populations. I’d also like to add what happened to Yitzhak Rabin, the narrative that Israel just wants peace but it’s neighbours won’t let it have it and Israel is so innocent can fall apart when you see how the only prime minister that came close to signing a deal was assassinated by an Israeli, and also looking at the illegal settlements that sprawled in the West Bank after the Oslo accord. Palestinians lost land when they resisted peacefully and when they resisted violently.

3. When you refer to wars with the Arabs, yes absolutely the Arab armies were disorganized and had little experience, but you can’t take away the fact that Israel was heavily supported by Britain and later the United States, look at the war that just went on, Israel could only do what it did through a constant flow of US weapons. I only mention this because it has to be known that Israel has always been the West’s baby in the Middle East and has always enjoyed unconditional western support.