[jhpigott]

I think the Syrian delivery of SCUDs to Hezbollah certainly hasn’t helped the situation, but it looks like Israel is directly threatening to retaliate against Syria for ANY attack by Hezbollah.

[Shaun_MD]

Earlier Saturday, Israel was firing flares over southern Lebanon. The Lebanese army went on full alert.

[SkipW]

So what?

[Enchante]

"...if Hezbollah dare to launch ballistic missiles against us,” said an Israeli minister

seems that the warning/threat from unnamed Israeli minister is specific to "ballistic" missiles which would be the SCUDs but not the kinds of rockets the Hez-Nazis have used in the past..... but I think Israel should now have a public doctrine that any attack from Hezbollah (OR Hamas or other terror groups) *may* produce retaliation against Syria and/or Iran or any other sponsor(s). Yes it ups the ante but it's (past) time to end this process of Syria and Iran using proxy terror groups to attack across Israel's borders. Israel can keep options open by not pledging an automatic retaliation but now, even so-called "limited" rocket attacks (pre-SCUD) ought to produce serious and costly retaliation against the Syrian military and strategic sites..... force Baby Assad either to step up to full scale war or back off from any sponsorship of Hezbollah etc.