all of this is said by a private person, completely detached from my position in the IDF and with no knowlege of IDF stratigic capabilities. I am a tank commander not a division commander.
1- The Sinai penisula is demiliterised. to get through Egyptians forces have to cross the suez cannal and than drive anice few houndred kilometers to the border. All these kilometers are closer to israeli airbases than egyptian ones. Its not enough to have F16s, you need good pilots to fly them, air controll and EW systems to support them, and so on.
2- A syrian division thrown at the golan is likely to become mincemeat very quickly. in the Yom Kippur war the sent somthing around 6 times that and the Israeli Air Force was almost non present. non the less they were utterly destroyed and had it not been for the Iraqis and Jordanians they would have faced the fall of Damascus almost for sure.
3- If foreign sources have anything close to an understanding of Israels order of battle, the IDF can hold both fronts including the lebanese border, while it will be a strain. This means that not only the IDF could defend both fronts, but it an probably hold one whil counter attacking on the other.
4- an this is a much more tactical remark, I would hate to bet on the Syrian fleet of T-55,T-62 and T-72 against Israels Merkavas and Magach tanks.
