I certainly think that's a point worthy of consideration. One problem is that we can always say "YOU STARTED IT!" based on which point in the conflict we choose to go from. So I've pointed out that the Oct 7th attack was a reaction to the 1967 occupation, so it's Israel's fault. You've in turn pointed out that Israel's seizure of the "buffer zone" areas in 1967 was made necessary by Palestinian hostility before that, so it's actually the Palestinians' fault.
We could play this game all day. But unlike a lot of such political games, in this one there is actually an ultimate, right answer. Palestine was a functioning region of the Ottoman Empire for centuries, with (like other regions and countries) a majority religion defined by its majority population and space for religious and ethnic minorities as well. The first thing to change that and turn it into a battleground between two separate ethnicities that had to have their own state excluding the other, was the Zionist project from the late 19th century and then the actions by Britain to encourage that project as a separatist aspiration, to tolerate the driving of native Palestinians off their lands etc.
This gave rise to the 1948 war. That gave rise (as you rightly point out) to anti-Israeli resentment and violence by Palestinians. That gave rise to the 1967 occupation. That gave rise to the intifada and Hamas. That gave rise to Oct 7th...
Now I'm NOT saying that this means the answer is to obliterate Israel and try to recreate the Palestine of the 19th century. I'm saying we can gain a better understanding of the Palestinians' attitudes and actions within the conflict by admitting, honestly and realisitically, the original genesis of the WHOLE conflict which was visited upon them, which was not of their doing.
Especially seeing as the Palestinian ‘cause’ is to annihilate Israel and wipe out the Jews?
That's not the "Palestinian" cause. Plenty of Palestinians just want to be left in peace to get on with their lives. That's the cause of the particular subset of Palestinians who have reacted to the situation in the most violently extreme manner. Any situation where one country illegally occupies and oppresses another people is going to provoke a range of reactions like that among those people.
But it's quite handy for the untra-Zionist element within Israel, who see themselves as having the ultimate right to rule ALL of Palestine and would happily just wipe out any remaining vestige of Arab/muslim Palestine that stands in their way. Because they've always got an excuse to justify their violent oppression of the occupied territories, all of which is only necessary because they initiated the settler colonial project in the first place.