Source: The Jerusalem Post
Nov 12, 2006
British readers Sunday were learning that Israel is starting to prepare for full scale war in which Syria is expected to be one of the main players facing the Jewish state.
Both Syria and Iran now top Israel's defense priority list, superceding the Palestinian threat, according to a number of Israeli officials quoted in The Sunday Times.
A defense analyst sourced in the report opined that Israel had missed a golden opportunity to reduce the Syrian threat during the war against Lebanon's Hizb'allah last July.
The Syrian airforce could have been destroyed in a couple of days, effectively leaving that country without the air cover it would need should it decide to launch its SCUD missiles against Israeli targets.
This assessment just adds to the numerous others that together have concluded Israel lost the July war, and will pay for that failure when the next conflict erupts.