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Israel is facing a Syrian missile crisis with the recent revelation of long-range Scud-D transfers to Hezbollah. In response, Israel declared it now regards Hezbollah as a division of the Syrian army and any strikes will require retaliatory response against Damascus. This is reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when JFK invoked the Kennedy Doctrine and declared any strike from Soviet proxies in the Western Hemisphere against others in the region is deemed a direct Soviet attack on the U.S.