Presuming that the people in those homes aren't doing this for free (suffering the risks and direct noxious effects of storing high explosives and propellants in their living quarters as well as the strong possibility of becoming "collateral damage" in an Israeli missile strike aimed at those munitions), this would seem to be the Arabic equivalent of Amway or Tupperware, a way for the private fellah to make a few dinars on the side.

 

Regarding the slaughter in Syria, it's difficult to imagine the Israeli government not involving itself in the resistance against this particular instance of the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party tyranny.  The latter has to regard the border area abutting the Israeli hold on the Golan Heights as one of its most stable frontiers (the IDF isn't about to try anything militarily aggressive right now, nu?), and therefore one from which forces could be drawn to hammer the rebels.

 

But how do the Syrian resistance factions look upon the Israelis?  Are they yammering pervasive anti-Israeli rhetoric in condemnation of the various accommodations made by the regime in Damascus, or are their spokescritters showing enough smarts to indicate that playing the "Israel delenda est!" card is really, really stupid when it comes to getting sympathy outside the Arab League countries?

 

And what the hell are the attitudes in neighboring Iraq and the Kingdom of Jordan?  It should be appreciated that the situation in Syria has caused a lot of sweating in those neighboring polities, but there's damned near nothing reported even in StrategyPage.com about how the populations and governments there are reacting. 

But the current revolution in Syria aims to replace the pro-Iran minority government with one that would be hostile to Syria and Hezbollah.

Would it not be more accurate to rewrite the above sentence thusly?

 

Be interesting to see if a civil war breaks out in Gaza between the pro-leadership and anti-Fatah factions. IF the anti-Fatah faction wins the leadership in Syria and Lebanon will be totally discredited as negotiation partners in a future deal.