The article is behind a subscription wall, but if you search for it through Google News you'll be able to read the whole thing. The whole very, very worrying thing:

Unusual activity has been reported on the Syrian side of Israel's northern frontier along the Golan Heights, including helicopter activity and the movement of tanks and troops. Syria massing troops along its southern border is nothing out of the ordinary, particularly since Israel launched a major airstrike on its territory Sept. 6. But the Israelis appear to be a lot more concerned than usual about Syrian intentions as of late. When Israel scrambled its warplanes Sept. 27 for the third time in the past two weeks, Stratfor saw a pressing need to investigate why the Israelis are so spooked about a Syrian reprisal for the Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike, and why Israel has gone out of its way to reassure the Syrians that it is not looking for a fight. Israel's apparent skittishness could be caused by concerns circulating in the region that Syria might launch a surprise offensive to recapture the Golan Heights. A split has surfaced within the Syrian regime, where some are arguing that an offensive in the Golan Heights would be in Damascus' best interest and would galvanize Arab support and bring Syria out of regional isolation... the Israelis are giving every indication that they are preparing for the worst-case scenario.

Here's the problem: Syria knows that it would get brutally dismantled in a conventional war against the IDF. Their plan during the summer hinged on two things: (1) the ability to defend their airspace against IDF incursions and (2) the ability to to take a tiny bit of the Golan and hold on till global anti-Israel diplomacy was brought to against the Jewish State. But the lack of Arab support after Israel's air raid showed Syria that it can't count on diplomatic support, just as the air raid itself showed them that they had seriously underestimated the IAF's superiority. Syria has to know that. Israel knows that Syria has to know that. Syria knows that Israel knows... and so on.

So what could Syria possibly be thinking, and why is Israel so nervous? STRATFOR suggests that some of Syria's non-conventional arsenal is still intact (of course it is), and that Israel fears that Assad is going to use it against Israeli civilians. But even STRATFOR admits that this would mean the physical end of Assad and his regime - and they might have added that while Assad is a thug, he's not a suicidal theocrat. He doesn't go to war unless he thinks he can win.

Why Assad might think he can win - and why it amounts to an existential threat to the Jewish State - after the jump.