According to this, you have 3 Special forces regiments:

“The special forces division has three regiments. It is not clear if a formal divisional headquarters exists or if for the sake of simplicity the three regiments have just been lumped together. “

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/syria/army.htm

But let’s not even go there – you don’t seriously claim that your special forces could fight the entire Israeli army aren’t you?

Israel is a small country in demography and land area. A small country that reached 30km from Damascus when it was smaller both in numbers and land area.
We are willing to do a lot for the kidnapped soldier not because one soldier more or less means Israel’s destruction, but because unlike some people in this region, for us life are sacred – not death.

Syria is indeed not entirely desert – it’s about 60% desert. Of course, most of the population is located in the other 40%.
Let me remind you that Israel is also a land of hills and mountains, and let’s not forget the Golan – which is mountainous as well, and was conquered by Israel even before the arrival of weapons especially designed for this terrain, like the Merkava. So do you think that Israel couldn’t fight Syria because of its geography?
mms://video.nrg.co.il/lib/2004/news/mark4.wmv

I’m NOT talking about offensive war, I’m talking strictly defensive war in case of Israeli agrission against Syria!

Here are Syria’s strong point:
1) Trained and equipped commando units, who can put up a good fight and cause damage. Their problem is numbers – there aren’t enough of them, just a couple of units.

15 regiments, indeed that’s a small number!

So yeah, I agree with Kfadrat (amazingly!) that Syria could damage Israel, but in the end of the day I think that even he knows which army will be 30km from Damascus (again).

I think you also agree with me and will teach PII that Israel is a very small country, both demographically and in land area and can NOT sustain heavy casualities, imagine what would happen to any government that takes Israel to a war were it loses 1000 dead men and say 100 POWs, Israel is ready to destroy the whole of Gaza just to get back one POW for god’s sake.

there’s is also the fact that Syria is NOT a desert … so no PII Syrian troops won’t be acting like Iraqis in 1991, the fight they will put up is something you never dreamt of, even in worst scenario case and the number of hills allowing flank shots at Israeli tanks will show you a heavy toll on tanks and APCs in a land advance.

I’m ready to pet any Israeli government would fall much sooner than the 30km line 😛 .

I really like what SOC said, ” if you just look at it on paper ” .

believe it or not, Israel would’ve eaten us alive if they were sure they can, obviously they know it will be more costy that anything, just imagine 2000 gun barells and 400 MLRSs ready at all times of day to open fire at Israeli positions in Golan not to mention Syria’s stratigic missile arsenal, the war is not going to be airial war only … people should look at the whole picture, Syria can hurt Israel real bad and Israel knows it very well, this is NOT the crampy crowded not suitable at all Bekaa Valley, we are talking about something completely different here!

To think the Syrians stand a chance against the Israelis is laughable. The Syrian armed forces is a joke compared to the IDF and IDF/AF.

and you know that by sitting in your ivory tower in the states and reading Israeli web sites right???

Hopefully Syria doesn’t get too involved in all of this either or they will lose yet another conflict to the Israelis.

actually it’s about time we get involved again, if nothing else just to change this sterotype the west has about the Israeli abillities!

And why the HELL are children in jail in Israel anyway?

most of them were born there, don’t ask me what their brignant mothers are doing in prison, that’s a matter of democracy and equal treatment in the oasis of democracy in the middle east!

the only sin any Palestinian ever did and which is enough reason for Israelis to kill/impreson him/her is to exsist !!

Sorry, but terrorists everywhere ARE sub-humans. Not Arabs, not Palestinians, not Syrians – terrorists. Sub-humans.

what about Israelis??? Kahanah hay, Isac Shamer, Baroch Goldeshtine … should I go on? it’s a long list!

I rest my case. A person like you will describe an attack in the heart of Tel Aviv as legitimate, as it is, after all, “an occupied territory”. You are the kind of person who will never accept any kind of peace in this land. The only peace you and those like you know is the destruction of Israel and the creation of Palestine instead of it – not next to it.
Peace will only happen here when every side will acknowledge the other’s right for the land, which is a homeland for two nation. As such, it has to be partitioned between the two. You are one of the many people who still don’t get it – we have an equal right for this land. Until people like you in the Arab world won’t get it, we’ll continue to kill and be killed.

No – this outpost is located in Kibbutz Kerem-Shalom – inside the pre-1967 Israeli territory. It is inside the 1949 cease fire line.

I’m NOT going to be drawn AGAIN into this endless debate, how can one convince someone who stole somebody else’s land that theft isn’t right???

The raid was conducted early this morning, probably before dawn – if you have a picture of Assad in his pyjamas in Damascus, I’d like to see it. All of the reports you showed were from the evening.

http://sana.org/eng/21/2006/06/28/43972.htm

Information Source Says : Air-Defenses repel two Israeli Warplanes Over the Coastal Region

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 – 10:30 PM

Damascus, (SANA)-
An Information source said that two Israeli warplanes flew at law altitude over the coastal region toward Kandil Valley at dawn on Wednesday and were repelled by air-defenses that forced them to leave the area.
The source said that these hostile acts constitute an inexcusable and rejected provocation , indicating that if it meant to hold Hamas leadership responsible for the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier ,then Israel would have made a big mistake that exceeds the limits of logic.
The source added that the operation was carried by the Palestinian popular resistance in Gaza , and was announced by the resistance there , and such operation cannot be done by a remote control.
The source described such an Israeli act as an expression of the Israeli failure and internal crisis which Israel is trying to export abroad , and for that reason Israel is directing accusations to others.

to add the two aircraft were faced by two SA-3 missiles, they evaded and turned away even before crossing the coast line and Wadi Qandeel isn’t even close to the Presidential palace!

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now can you tell me what you all call the kidnapping of 8 Palestinian ministers and 24 PMs this night in the West Bank by the Israeli terrorism machine???

And what I last heard was that the IDF inquiry found out that after the tank was hit, the crew was in a state of shock and did not fire against the terrorists.

And even if they would have, it’s still a sneak attack, murder and kidnapping conducted by sub-human terrorists inside a sovereign Israeli territory – and not fightings and capturing during combat inside occupied territory.

now now, keep the bad language back as each one of us most certainly has loads of them names about the other side, ok, keep it civilized!

now can you explain what’s ” sovereign Israeli territory ” ???? this IS BS and you know it IS, there is NO such thing as a sovereign Israeli territory, 60 years ago there was no such thing as Israel on the first place!

and to add to that this land where the military post is was occupied in 67 from Egypt, how dare you call it your’s???

Your terror-sponsoring leaders will not be able to sleep at night because of the roar of the Israeli fighter planes over their house, like this morning, over and over again, first as a warning and then as an action.

HA HA HA HA HA … you really believe this BS your media is loading you with??? well take this:

http://sana.org/eng/22/2006/06/28/43891.htm

and this:

http://sana.org/eng/22/2006/06/28/43940.htm

the president was in Damascus recieving the envoy of the Jordanian King and the Speaker of Lebanese parlement at the same time your stupid media claims he was in Lattakia !!!

same BS happened last time you guys claimed this, your media claimed he was in Lattakia watching the SUPPOSEDLY over flying aircraft while he was in Damascus recieving Saudi – then – crown prince Abdullah!

your arrogance makes you as blind as a wall could be!