It’s a subject of debate among normal Jewish people, but for most zionists it has been settled since the Maccabees. You can’t ‘start’ a fight on or just before shabbat, you can ‘finish’ a fight that is ongoing, zionists just consider the war on Palestine and Arabs generally to be an ongoing defensive war so they can skip any holy days they need to
alt/spec fiction writers understanding even basic politics challenge: impossible