I took college-level American history courses. I should really have something more-sophisticated to say, but, still, the word-association, in my mind, when I imagine colonies and settlers, is childish:
Pioneer Land, at Disneyland. There were palisades, made of pointy logs and a cheesy, toy gun.
Israelis built multi-story buildings, factories, and public utilities.
If you would like to apply the same wording -- indifferently, clinically, amorally -- any metro area, of any first word country, could technically be described in terms of a colony.
But, the plot thickens.
Let's assume that a third country is settling a land dispute, between you and your neighbor.
And, more-complicated-still, both sides have alliances.
Are we appreciating the seriousness of that, or is it like the more-harmless discussion on insensitive Halloween costumes, let's say of Indians, but doesn't involve any real war machines.