(JNS-Israel Hayom) Alex Traiman - According to a high-profile international legal team that rushed to Netanyahu's defense during recent pre-indictment hearings, Netanyahu's attempts to influence the media are standard practice for politicians and not criminal in nature. Professor Avi Bell, a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, said that "prosecuting a bribery charge in these cases is a mistake. Pursuing these charges is unprecedented in the democratic world. There is no case we can find anywhere in the democratic world where positive coverage has ever been considered a potential 'bribe.'...Treating bargaining between public officials and media figures over positive coverage as a criminal transaction is a danger to free speech."
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