FAKE NEWS!:

It's not just that the police recommendations submitted on Sunday to charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery won't affect Netanyahu's supporters in the short term.

If anything, they will strengthen his hold on his base by dint of his most effective mechanism of recruitment and control, namely the narrative whereby the media is persecuting him.

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Netanyahu's supporters in the Likud party and on the right automatically belittle each and every one of the cases in which he is embroiled. Cases 4000 - involving Elovitch - and 2000, both dealing with his relations with the media, are no different.

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