Michael Snyder

We are witnessing an old-fashioned standoff in the Middle East right now.  The IDF was supposed to have sent thousands of troops storming into Gaza by now, but threats from Hezbollah and Iran have caused Israeli officials to pause.  Do the Israelis really want to fight an extremely bloody two front war?  Iran has actually brought up the possibility of "pre-emptive action", but that would inevitably spark a military response from the United States.  Do the Iranians really want to fight the U.S. military?  There are some that are hoping that this standoff will ultimately allow cooler heads to prevail, but I see it as the calm before the storm.

After everything that has happened, there is no way that Israel can allow Hamas to survive.

And on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly did not sound like a man that is ready to back down…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a news conference on Tuesday, described Hamas as “the new Nazis,” and called on the world to unite and eradicate the terrorist organization the same way it defeated the Nazis.

During his remarks, Netanyahu also stated that the atrocities that Hamas just committed were “the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust”…