My impression is that while the Arab nations have been great at making florid statements of aggressive intention toward Israel, it is the Israelis that have been the past masters in launching highly effective aggressive attacks upon those Arab countries time and again...and Israel has been the primary aggressor most of the time in actual fact when it comes to real warmaking.

The Arabs bluster, the Israelis attack! And the Israelis take land. And they settle people on it with the intention of occupying it for perpetuity. Sounds like they figure they need "lebensraum" to me...

The only time the Arabs really got it together to make a "pre-emptive" attack on Israel was in 1973.

The rest of the time it's pretty well been Israel right from the getgo. Israel goes wherever it wants to, whenever it wants to, with maximum force. They do what no one else would dare to do (except maybe the USA). They are tremendously skilled at aggression, and at posing as a victim of aggression...a "little guy"...when they are in truth a regionally dominant military power.

Funny how when the other guy does it, though, it's an evil crime, a sneak attack...but when "we" (whoever the "we" is) do it, it's legitimate self-defence. That is self-serving hypocrisy.