Sen. John Fetterman is a staunch Israel supporter who has now asked that country’s president to pardon embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

TalkingPointsMemo.com obtained a letter that Fetterman sent to Israel President Isaac Herzog asking him to issue a pardon for Netanyahu amid an ongoing corruption scandal.

“In a world this dangerous, I question whether any democracy can afford to have its head of government spending valuable hours, day after day, in a courtroom rather than the situation room,” Fetterman wrote in the Dec. 2, TPM reported.

“I fully support it and I stand on the letter,” Fetterman told TPM.

Written on Senate letterhead and bearing his signature, Fetterman’s letter said he has monitored Israeli court proceedings with “growing alarm” and he told Herzog that the

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