{"id":422365,"date":"2025-12-03T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:40:13","slug":"kicking-the-corpse-netanyahus-pardon-request-caps-the-slow-death-of-law-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422365\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking the Corpse: Netanyahu&#8217;s Pardon Request Caps the Slow Death of Law in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">Nearly one year before Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s lawyers requested a full, unconditional pardon from his corruption cases, Netanyahu began testifying in the trial. That day, the courtroom was packed, the judges were solemn and Netanyahu sat stony-faced, until he broke out into self-exculpating oratory. But despite years of anti-judicial vitriol, he seemed to project something like a baked-in respect for the institution the three district court judges were there to uphold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly one year before Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s lawyers requested a full, unconditional pardon from his corruption cases, Netanyahu began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[139941,372,99,173467,26902,16657,27269,50,73832],"class_list":{"0":"post-422365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-attorney-general-of-israel","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israeli-judiciary","12":"tag-israeli-politics","13":"tag-itamar-ben-gvir","14":"tag-knesset","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-yariv-levin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115657102167651025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}