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Awesome scenario choice, love the premise!

Israel, May 9th 2004; The prelude to war: In March of 2002 relations deteriorate between Israel and the Palestinian authority after a suicide bomber blows up a hotel killing 23 Israeli civilians. Israel mobilizes more forces to retaliate against the Palestinians. A deadly retaliation game continues throughout the year and the US and European countries try in vain to bring both sides to a cease fire.

March-April 2003: After Saddam's continuation of "hide and seek" with his weapons and the UN inspectors, the US invades and utterly destroys the Iraqi army, eventually capturing Saddam Hussein some time after their defeat.

June 22nd 2003: A fundamentalist Islamic revolution sweeps Egypt over throwing its moderate government. American advisors are subsequently expelled and Egypt claims the right to remilitarize the Sinai Peninsula at any time. The US stops all arms shipments to Egypt.

January 1st 2004: Tel-Aviv is rocked by a 1kt nuclear device detonated by Palestinian terrorists killing 20,000 Israeli civilians. Fundamentalists mullahs declare "Jihad" against Israel. Jordan and Saudi Arabia offers to mediate emergency discussions between Israeli and Palestinian authorities at a summit to take place in Lebanon. The Arab media propaganda network "Al-Jazeera" claims the Tel-Aviv nuclear attack was staged by the Israeli government in order to further hostilities from Israel and it casts Jordan as an Israeli puppet state.

March 17th 2004: Israel suspends implementation of agreements with the Palestinian authority for an indefinite period of time. Israel mobilizes forces and begin violently retaliating against the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. Palestinians riot in areas still occupied by Israeli forces.

April 2nd 2004: After further attempts at Nuclear extortion fails, North Korea moves additional forces to the DMZ and the US begins moving forces to the Korean peninsula to counter the possible threat.

April 30th 2004: Israel reoccupies the Gaza strip and West Bank. A terrorist compound in Gaza believed to be the source of the nuclear device is struck by Israeli troops. Over 600 "terrorists" were reported to have been killed. Gaza, Khan Yunis, Rafah, Eeir el Balah and other cities are reduced to ruins by the Israelis. Egypt responds by occupying selected locations in the Sinai with light units. Lebanon signs a mutual defense pact with Syria. In secret meetings, Syria, Algeria, and Sudan agree to join Egypt in an attack upon Israel. The date is set for the soonest possible time: May 9th 2004. At the same time a frustrated Israel begins mobilization to secure their existence by destroying the Arab threat once and for all.

Designer's Notes: Israeli reinforcements have no protection levels to allow irregulars and exploiting ground units to disrupt the reinforcement process. Israel will not have chemical weapons available until the Arabs use them first. The US cannot send forces to the region given their occupation of Iraq and the war in Korea. SAM units exist in this scenario. SAM units also consist of heavy AAA gun emplacements to provide defense against helicopters and is limited to LOS restrictions. The best counter to the SAM threat is either ground forces, heavy air strikes, heliborne forces or attack helicopters at 2 mile standoff range. Congestion has been added for Israeli player in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to represent civil unrest, civil uprisings, riots, and terrorist attacks. Best played as PBEM or Arab vs. AI. Based loosely on Norm Kroger's "Middle East 2000" scenario from The Operational Art of War.