Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister in Jerusalem on March 9, 2016. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/flickr/cc) By Jeffrey D. Sachs / Common Dreams The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, dated by scholars to the 7th century BC, God promised the land to the Jewish people and instructed them to destroy
By Michele Justic In what Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has called, “one of the most successful rescue operations in the history of the State of Israel,” early Monday morning, members of Israel’s elite counter-terrorism unit, Yamam, along with IDF troops, succeeded in rescuing two hostages, Fernando Marman, 61, and Louis Har, 70, in Rafah. The […]