As I said, you are in part driven by a simplified view of a complicated conflict. You might want to read up on some history to find out why jews chose to leave their homes in Russia, Europe, Northern-Africa and the Ottoman Empire to congregate in one small part of the latter, where some of them already lived. That’s a bit different from, let’s say, Morocco walking into the Western Sahara to plant their flag.
Iran is shipping munitions into Lebanon, which are then fired across the border on Israeli villages, but it’s only escalation if they shoot back?
That’s the mindset of the schoolyard bully that keeps spitting on someone and then says the other kid ‘escalated’ by kicking him in the nuts