No they can’t. It was the likes of Debka that gave Syria advanced modern air defense systems. The Israelis took the path of least resistance to the undefended target in the eastern Syrian desert. The Syrians took the gamble on not drawing attention to the facility by positioning air defences around it. They gambled and lost.
The Israeli’s used part of Turkish airspace and skirted through the least defended part of Syria to get to the facility. No Israeli planner is going to endanger or take the risk of putting a strike package through the main areas of the Syrian air defense system.
http://geimint.blogspot.com/2007/09/syrian-sam-network.html
Well that’s some interesting information but why didn’t the Israelis just fly directly through the unprotected desert then.
Off topic but I wonder where Assad’s summer home is. These seem to be able to buzz that when they want to.