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Abbas reportedly appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to "instruct" the Israeli media to cease embarrassing the PA via revelations of corruption in Ramallah. In this, of course, Abbas fundamentally misreads Israel. Netanyahu cannot -- even if he were willing to -- do such a favor for Abbas. Netanyahu himself is hardly treated with kid gloves by Israel's own news outlets, which vie with each other in digging up and publishing innuendo -- often petty and irrelevant -- about the prime minister's own family. In our system, an elected head of government cannot curb the press. In this we are happily very different from our Arab neighbors. But most of all, in our system, it's impossible to brutally bully whistleblowers. Shabaneh, by contrast, one fears, has made himself a real target.Thanks SJackson.