no matter what you think about Israel’s treatment of Gaza all this time, no one can make an argument that Hamas didn’t strike first in this most recent action.

What a pointless, ahistorical line of thought.

Yeah sure if you just ignore everything else and start from that day, they kind of look like the aggressor.

But even then that’s not true. “Israel was just peacefully minding its own business, illegally occupying the land they stole when the people they stole it from attacked outta nowhere”. Occupation is aggression.