Sy Hersh fwiw:

A Strike in the Dark: What did Israel bomb in Syria? by Seymour M. Hersh. The New Yorker, February 11, 2008.
That notion was echoed by the ambassador of an Israeli ally who is posted in Tel Aviv. “The truth is not important,” the ambassador told me. “Israel was able to restore its credibility as a deterrent. That is the whole thing. No one will know what the real story is.”