{"id":4769,"date":"2025-12-08T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:00:01","slug":"sorry-not-sorry-netanyahu-demands-a-pardon-benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4769","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, not sorry: Netanyahu demands a pardon | Benjamin Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu says his corruption trial endangers Israel and demands a pardon.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is asking for a pardon over a range of corruption charges laid against him after repeatedly telling Israeli journalists that he would clear his name in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The prime minister has long described the case against him as a witch-hunt led by the media and the judiciary. If he succeeds in sidestepping the courts, Israeli journalists and judges will wonder what he might have in store for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Contributors:<\/strong><br \/>Daniel Levy \u2013 President, US\/Middle East Project<br \/>Dana Mills \u2013 Writer, Local Call &amp; +972 Magazine<br \/>Jonathan Ofir \u2013 Writer, Mondoweiss<br \/>Dan Perry \u2013 Author, \u201cAsk Questions Later\u201d Substack<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"on-our-radar\" class=\"p1\">On our radar<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">This week, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted Israel\u2019s PR problems have more to do with TikTok than with the genocide Israeli forces have inflicted on Gaza. Ryan Kohls looks at a persistent myth still making the rounds in American political circles.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-phenomenon-of-kim-ou-joon\" class=\"p1\">The phenomenon of Kim Ou-Joon<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kim Ou-Joon is part journalist, part activist, part political performer. An outspoken and sometimes controversial voice who leans to the left ideologically, Kim leads South Korea\u2019s biggest YouTube-based news network, primarily through a political podcast. <em>The Listening Post\u2019s<\/em> Meenakshi Ravi reports on what Kim Ou-Joon \u2013 and others like him \u2013 reveal about the world of politics and media in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Featuring:<br \/><\/strong>Kim Ou-Joon \u2013 Founder and host, News Factory<br \/>Jane Yeahin Pyo \u2013 Assistant professor, Tulane University<br \/>Shreyas Reddy \u2013 Lead correspondent, NK News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 8 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">8 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share dark-view\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu says his corruption trial endangers Israel and demands a pardon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is asking for a pardon over a range of corruption charges laid against him after repeatedly telling Israeli journalists that he would clear his name in court. The prime minister has long described the case against him as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}