Syria won't go into a conventional war with Israel, especially if they are winning through their proxy, Hezbollah.
Agreed. Gulf War 1 was the last "conventional war" that the arabs will ever fight against a Western nation.
GW 1 showed them that arabs vs. the West in conventional war is suicide for the arab army. After learning the lesson of the "Highway of Death," they've spent the last 15 years testing and perfecting their new guerilla strategies.
What's worse, this strategy is working. Now that they know hiding among civilians and using the media as a weapon is much more effective, they will never try a conventional war again.
We'd better get used to these guerilla tactics and harden our hearts to the sight of small children being pulled from bombed-out rubble, because the arabs will keep doing this as long as it works well for them.