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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s president for a favor. In a previously
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has found himself to be an outlier among his Democratic colleagues once again, this time as part of his direct appeal for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President Isaac Herzog earlier in November, urging him to consider granting the prime minister pardon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the contentious appeal weeks after President Trump had made the same request to the Israeli president.
Right-wing delegates confronted Isaac Herzog, who said he was invited to discuss the challenges facing Zionism in America.
Benjamin Netanyahu taunted Zohran Mamdani this week, saying he would return to New York, defying the socialist mayor-elect’s pledge to have him arrested on charges of war crimes. “I’ll come to New York,
Herzog has come under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to grant Netanyahu a pardon. Trump has compared his ally Netanyahu's legal troubles there to his own at home, which he has characterized as a political witch hunt.