Israel's War in Syria

By our count Israel has attacked Iranian bases in Syria on 9 February, 7 April and most recently 29 April. That last one was a doozy moving local Richter scales. Those are only efforts we know about. More attacks are certain.

We've swiped this map from Ynet, which swiped it from the NYTs:

As the reader can see the Iranian presence in Syria is extensive, which is why the Israelis keep hitting Iranian bases there.

Published reports indicate Iran wants to retaliate after the Israeli attack last week. Israel has already said that an Iranian attack on Israeli territory would lead to an Israeli response in kind. We once again draw reader(s) attention to Israel's fleet of five Dolphin class attack subs, each of which can launch a salvo of four cruise missiles.

Of course given that Mossad just smuggled 55,000 pages of Iranian nuclear documents out of the country maybe the Israelis don't need to do anything that visibly dramatic.

After all, the Jew is clever.

In any event, when the war with Hezbollah does come, it seems pretty clear that the conflict will bleed into Syria right away.