Rock the Casbah (and airport)

Good old Israel.  As the West quivers timorously over how to stop (or at least slow) the bloodshed while not getting their own militaries directly involved (Obama's acceptance speech in November 2012 spoke to such war fatigues feelings), Tel-Aviv takes matters into its own hands and makes a mockery of the Syrian air defence systems that Europe and the USA are so keen to talk up (saying that they are better than Libya's is obvious in hindsight, but then in 2011 Colonel Gaddafi was reputed to have vaunted weapons systems).
True, it is was a limited objective of destroying highly accurate missiles from Iran destined for Hizbollah rather than open-ended nation-building, so it was easy to achieve success.  Further, it has mounted raids on Syria before, even destroying a proto-nuclear power plant, so it knows what it needs to do.  Yet all the same, it showed that it could get in and out without being touched.
Israel may have a justified reputation for violating the sovereignty of other countries that would constrain (normally) leading world powers, but it has shown the way for action to be taken before jihadists gain too large a foothold in the civil war.  Russia (and China) are still smarting over the liberal interpretation for the no-fly zone over Libya and will not grant any UN mandate that even criticises Syria, let alone permits more concrete action (even the Yemen option of replacing the man at the top but essentially leaving the existing government in place was dismissed).  A strict no-fly zone that leaves ground installations untouched would only infringe Syrian airspace, thus a partial erosion of sovereignty and the numbers of Syrian dead have exceeded anything that happened in Kosovo.  Of course, the danger is that without air support, the regime will resort to surface-to-surface missiles and chemical warfare more than they already have so far.  This though would prompt full-scale intervention.  Thus, if the West ever got its act together like Israel, the Assad administration would face either a slow death or a quick one, instead of the Russian/Iranian-sponsored stalemate that exists today.