Israel is designed so that it cannot reasonably aspire to imperial conquest. It goes against the very construction of its own national identity for Israel to move beyond her borders to try to dominate foreign peoples. Israel however will yes need to learn how to rule an indigenous population that is not Jewish.
The West Bank is, and will never be anything but, a failed state. Palestine cannot survive on her own. She must belong to some super-ordinate state power. The Arab world has decided to prohibit Palestine from attaching to any of the Arab states on her borders. It is therefore left for Israel to lay claim to that land and to bring Palestine under her wing.
Israel, when she is true to herself, will never try to colonize a foreign people who have, or should have, a state of their own but Israel will have to learn how to colonize a domestic people who require some sort of legitimate authority for them to function in an orderly society.
History has bequeathed the West Bank to Israel. The price for that bequest is that history is testing Israel to invent a new way to incorporate an indigenous people into her society without Israel (a) losing her national identity, while at the same time (b) preserving and, if needs be, cultivating from scratch the incorporated people's dignity and sense of autonomy.
Jacob will have to learn how to heal the wounds of Esav and of Ishmael.
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