On Wednesday, each side said it would continue to abide by the cease-fire but also threatened escalation.
While the imbalance in conventional forces may provide a rationale for the continued deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (following the logic of the Cold War deployments), NATO would be highly unlikely to threaten escalation in the event of strictly conventional attack even in the absence of an explicit "No First-Use" policy.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon of Israel said Tuesday that if the S-300s "arrive in Syria, we will know what to do," suggesting that would again threaten an escalation with another Israeli strike.
While threatening an "earthquake" of escalation against Israel, Hamas said it could restore calm if Israel halted the Gaza offensive, once again committed to a 2012 Egyptian-brokered truce and freed prisoners it detained in the West Bank last month.
Hamas officials in Gaza have threatened a "major escalation" of rocket strikes against Israel, raising fears of a return to the intense violence of recent weeks.
But the involvement of the Florida legislature directly in determining the result would be a huge escalation of the contest, threatening all-out partisan warfare.Nevertheless, the Bush campaign does seem to be contemplating this option.
"The Drug Industry Cashes In" (editorial, Nov. 18) correctly points out that the drug industry's price escalations threaten to make a mockery of its deal with the Senate Finance Committee and the Obama administration.
The Palestinian cabinet, meeting late Friday, accused Israel of military escalation that it said was threatening regional stability.
Efforts to deliver humantitarian aid were being threatened by the latest escalation of violence. .
Reuters reported that the Jarablus Military Council — which is allied to the US-backed, Kurdish-led SDF — said Turkish aircraft attacked a village south of Jarablus, called al-Amarna, causing civilian casualties and conducting what the council called a "a dangerous escalation that threatens the fate of the region".
