Reply #23: This is an amusing frame, but not strictly true, of course.

[Tesha]

The Israelis and their friends like to portray each Israel action as
"a response to a Palestinian attack" but that's just one way to frame
it; an equally valid frame is that the Palestinians are responding to
Israeli attacks (including the Israeli's continuing blockade of Gaza
and all the harm that's doing to civilians in Gaza).

If one wanted to go back far enough, one might also consider
that the Palestinians thought they possessed a country before
the '49 partition of Palestine in favor of the Israelis. Perhaps
that was one of the earliest "actions"?

Tesha