I have written more than once with regard to the use of the word “settlers” during the “Taming of the American West” episode of U.S. history. The word implies that the land those people were stealing wasn’t already settled, by millions of Native Americans.
The same trick is being used now in referring to the “settlers” in Israel, who are invaders of lands not their own, with the intent of ending up with the land belonging to the “settlers’ and not the people originally there. (Possession being nine tenths of the law, don’t you know.)
At least when the Spanish sent people to the “New World” to raid, pillage, rape, kill, and convert to Christianity, they were called “Conquistadores,” what they really were: conquerors.
Uncommon Sense 