{"id":4107,"date":"2025-12-02T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/what-does-netanyahus-pardon-request-mean-for-israels-future\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:35:47","slug":"what-does-netanyahus-pardon-request-mean-for-israels-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/what-does-netanyahus-pardon-request-mean-for-israels-future\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Netanyahu\u2019s pardon request mean for Israel\u2019s future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are divided reactions to the Israeli prime minister\u2019s pardon request to President Isaac Herzog.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon to end the criminal prosecution against him.<\/p>\n<p>He says it will unite the public, but critics say he is driving further division.<\/p>\n<p>So, what are the long-term implications for Israel?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Bernard Smith<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan Perry \u2013 political analyst<\/p>\n<p>Neve Gordon \u2013 professor of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Barak \u2013 former aide to Benjamin Netanyahu during his time at the Foreign Ministry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are divided reactions to the Israeli prime minister\u2019s pardon request to President Isaac Herzog. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon to end the criminal prosecution against him. He says it will unite the public, but critics say he is driving further division. So, what are the long-term implications for &#8230; <a title=\"What does Netanyahu\u2019s pardon request mean for Israel\u2019s future?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/what-does-netanyahus-pardon-request-mean-for-israels-future\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What does Netanyahu\u2019s pardon request mean for Israel\u2019s future?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}