The first missile that goes ballistic out of Syria will be dealt with as though is is indeed, a NUKE - game over man.
Also, Syria is currently executing a proxy war against Israel as described by Mr. Syrian Defense Minister - the missiles are really rockets and are not ballistic. The difference is that Syria will no longer hide behind Hizbola.
Remember the meeting Ahmanutjob and Al-Hassan last thursday? Well shortly after that meeting, Ahmanutjob met with Nazrallah, head of Hizbola.
I anticipate a warm bag of buttered popcorn :)
I had actually asked my question rhetorically. I also agree that Syria has no nukes and does not have the means to fully carry out the threats they have made. It's my humble opinion that all this "saber" rattling is just a ploy to try and ramp up anger against Israel among the other Arab nations by getting Israel to do something in response.
read Isaiah 17:1 if you have any doubt what the response will be.
How do you figure? During GWI, Saddam launched dozens of Scuds at Israel & couldn't provoke a response. Granted that the US was telling Israel not to complicate things by retalliating. IIRC, Israel reserved the right to retalliate IF any of Saddam's Scuds were carring Gas, Biotoxins, or radiological warhead (crude A-Bomb).
Israel will probably ride-out any small-scale missile attack until they can tell if it involved WMD's -- at THAT point, the gloves are off. Up to that point it will be Tit-for-Tat, except that Israel will want to hit a little harder to prove that they can dominate any escallation.
First rule of combative/aggressive behavior:
First you do the doin’, THEN you do the talkin’, but don’t talk so much you miss any try at payback.
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This bozo would sound like something out of a comic book, except that the idiots in the DBM eat this crap up and validate the Delta Sierra’s that spout it.
.......then, the same morons in the DBM will wonder why the response from Israel/US (when it finally comes)is “soooooooo violent”. (Sorry, but I don’t do lisping titters very well.)