>>>Smerel – that was AFTER the gezerah min hashomayim was batul and they were given permission to fight
What is this assumption based on? Of course you don’t look first to fight you try the other methods first but had the gezorah not been botel why do you assume they would not have fought back? Chazal say the parsah of Yaakov and Esav in V’Yislach is to teach us that preparing for milchoma is also a way to deal with those who threaten us. Do you think Torah haskafa is otherwise? Based on what?