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Thanks for posting this.

My guess: the game changed when Assad loaded Hezbollah trucks with the chemical warheads and sent them to Lebanon. Probably enough to take out Haifa.

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I tried searching to test your theory and found this:

Liberman: WMDs Israel thwarted from reaching Hezbollah were chemical arms: Liberman was referring to previous comments he made after a suspected Israeli strike on the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus. (December 8, 2016)

“Israel has no interest in intervening in the civil war in Syria. Our policies and our positions are very clear and are based on three red lines: We will not allow any harm to come to Israeli citizens; we will not allow any harm to the sovereignty of the State of Israel; and we will not allow the smuggling of sophisticated weapons or chemical weapons from Syria to Lebanon for Hezbollah,” he said at Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.