Robert Fisk: Would President Assad invite a cruise missile to his palace?

So now Syria is in America's gunsights. First it's Iraq, Israel's most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of mass destruction – none of which has been found. Now it's Syria, Israel's second most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of mass destruction, or so President George Bush Junior tells us. No word of that possessor of real weapons of mass destruction, Israel – the number of its nuclear warheads in the Negev are now accurately listed – whose Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has long been complaining that Damascus is the "centre of world terror".
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Powell to visit Mideast, will focus on peace process

Syria calls on UN to turn up heat on Israel's nuclear program
Syria, seeking to shift world attention from itself to Israel, asked the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to help transform the Middle East into a "zone free of weapons of mass destruction."

Accused by the United States of developing chemical weapons, Syria insists it is not doing so but charges that Washington is ignoring Israel, which is widely assumed to have nuclear weapons. Israel declines to discuss its nuclear activities.

A draft resolution - circulated by Syria in the 15-nation Security Council during a closed-door session to discuss the situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip - would welcome all initiatives aimed at the establishment of a "a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons" in the Middle East.
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If it's not OK for Syria to have WMDs, why is it OK for Israel to have them? And Israel has a lot of them. Enquiring minds want to know.