The Arabs admitted they started the war in 1948.
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” – Azam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League
“The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers. We do not deny it.” Jamal Husseini, head of the Arab Higher Council representing Palestine Arabs, April 16, 1948, address to the UN security council.
“WE EXTEND our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.” – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Declaration of Independence, May 15, 1948.
On October 7 Hamas rekindled its forever war in the name of Islamic supremacy by raping, pillaging, and mass murdering Jews. Hezbollah joined the fray the next day by indiscriminately bombing Israeli civilians. By all criteria it’s a just war.