How will escalation in this war happen? It will happen in part because the lunatics that are attacking Israel don't really know what they're doing. They're a combination of braggadocio and machismo built on a foundation of incompetence and fanaticism... Various spokesmen from various factions speak for the entire organization - but since these Arab fanatics speak in terms of honor and martyrdom, no one can ever say "that other spokesman who said we were going to launch rockets at Haifa... yeah, actually we'd rather not risk that escalation."... Now we have this Iranian idiot - knowing that an Syria must attack Israel and that Israel must respond - committing Iran to attacking Israel if Israel attacks Syria.

Iranian threats against Israel continue: Iranian media outlets published sections of interviews given by Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani, who said that Hizbullah's military capability has greatly increased in the last decade, and threatened that if Israel harmed Syria, the Iranians would respond with force. Sheybani stressed that Iran would support Syria if it is attacked by Israel. "There should be no doubt on this issue: If Syria is harmed, even in the slightest way, we will respond with force. This, on the basis of the joint defense agreement in effect between the two countries and already signed by the two ministers of defense," he said.