As the Deadline to Disarm Approaches, Hizballah Has Lost Its Credibility
The collapse of the “resistance narrative.”
December 3, 2025
A debate.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally requested a pardon from the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, for charges of corruption—reiterating a suggestion made publicly by President Trump. The request is as divisive for Israelis as the trial itself. A pardon would end a legal process that began in 2016, and a trial that has already dragged on for five years. To those sympathetic to the prime minister (and even some who aren’t), the charges are dubious and politically motivated. Yet even if that is so, the pardoning of a sitting prime minister would itself—many would argue—further undermine the rule of law.
The collapse of the “resistance narrative.”
“God must be at least as incomprehensible to a human being as I am to my dog.”
Albert Goldman’s American religion.
Turkey, Qatar, and Washington.
A debate.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally requested a pardon from the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, for charges of corruption—reiterating a suggestion made publicly by President Trump. The request is as divisive for Israelis as the trial itself. A pardon would end a legal process that began in 2016, and a trial that has already dragged on for five years. To those sympathetic to the prime minister (and even some who aren’t), the charges are dubious and politically motivated. Yet even if that is so, the pardoning of a sitting prime minister would itself—many would argue—further undermine the rule of law.
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