The CNN report last Tuesday on the circumstances of the Israeli air assault in Syria managed to rouse the rest of the U.S. mainstream media from its slumbers. During Israel's four-day weekend, a torrent of reports on the incident flooded the U.S., some of them contradictory, others complementary.

In Israel, the double blackout is still in effect: Both the official and unofficial establishment is chary of releasing any reference or bit of information about what happened in the skies over northern Syria in the dawn hours of September 6. On top of this, there is the army censor, which blocks publication of any information on the affair.

Under these stiff limitations, all the Israeli media can do is to attempt to piece together the puzzle for its consumers from their foreign counterparts, including CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Nevertheless, below are a few salient points: