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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Netanyahu: Israel’s press the most critical in the world
Unprompted, Netanyahu is taking on the Israeli media. Sarcastically, he says, all the news channels are bursting with praise for him.
On a more serious note, he goes on to make the dubious assertion that “there is no country [whose press] attacks its leader more than the Israeli press attacks me.”
He says that “that’s fine,” but that he too has “the right to criticize the press.
“Which I just did,” Netanyahu adds, to scattered titters.
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