You couldn't say the Arab revolt started it. You'd have to push the date up to the settlements that lead to it. That gets tricky because a small number of settlements feels like something unworthy of being called the start of a war, but continuous settlements in large numbers is certainly worth seeing as an aggressive act. It's hard to define a point where the settlements crossed the line.
Can you then say that the war was started in the 1940s and not with the Arab revolt?
You couldn't say the Arab revolt started it. You'd have to push the date up to the settlements that lead to it. That gets tricky because a small number of settlements feels like something unworthy of being called the start of a war, but continuous settlements in large numbers is certainly worth seeing as an aggressive act. It's hard to define a point where the settlements crossed the line.