"appear to be Israel in a military response, but God bringing the destruction to the attackers."
Fire and sulfur raining down from the sky and melting the skin off the attackers, with Israel cleaning up the bodies for several months. Sounds like nuclear warfare to me. Read the entire bible and see that character of God. Direct intervention with the angels happened only once, and that was the Assyrian army. According to scripture, one powerful angel came into the camp of the Assyrians and killed 185,000 men. Not saying this would not happen again, just sounds like Ezekial 38 that Israel excercise her "sampson option".