Dear Dennis,
Look in a mirror, where the “Pre-Elementary school ignorance” is clearly your own issue. But,
-1- Perhaps you are correct for the wrong reason, in that “at its inception, the Palestinian did not strike the first blow”, because
-2- If you start the conflict in 1948, when the Jewish State of Israel was reborn, the first Arab blows were struck by the invading forces of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and many Islamic Jihadist (Mujahedeen) forces, who wanted to be part of another ethnic cleansing of the Jews (just like the people of Gaza on October 7). And,
-3- Since a state of “Palestine” had never existed before 1948, you could also argue that there was no such things as a
“Palestinian” people, so it was totally impossible for “Palestinians to strike the first blow” in 1948.