{"id":43963,"date":"2026-10-28T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=43963"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:38:57","slug":"brent-nelsen-unpacks-what-a-netanyahu-defeat-could-hold-for-the-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-unpacks-what-a-netanyahu-defeat-could-hold-for-the-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen unpacks what a Netanyahu defeat could hold for the prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with India news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/world\/israel-elections-netanyahu-defeat-corruption-trial-october-7-inquiry-20020724.htm\">CNBC TV18<\/a>, Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> discussed Israel&#8217;s parliamentary election and its potential implications for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the country&#8217;s first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and the ensuing war, Nelsen said Israelis face an important decision. He added that a defeat for Netanyahu could accelerate the prime minister&#8217;s corruption trial and clear the way for an independent inquiry into the security failures surrounding the Hamas attacks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">Politics and International Affairs<\/a> at Furman, is a frequent contributor to local, national and international news sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Israel&#8217;s first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, India news outlet CNBC TV18 turns to Brent Nelsen to explain the potential fallout for Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3554,6,3555,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnbc-tv18","category-in-the-news","category-india-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43966,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions\/43966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}