The letter, sent by Roth, claimed that the program “included excerpts totaling a few seconds from a meeting lasting more than an hour. These excerpts were trending, without presenting the context of the meeting and without presenting the questions and remarks of the ‘businesswoman’. “Presented in full, without the very manipulative editing carried out in it, every viewer of the program would understand that there was no ‘conspiracy’, and that the only ‘conspiracy’ in question was on the part of the ‘Fact’ program.”
The letter further states that the things that Advocate Roth said were distorted and “caused serious and unjustified damage to his good name.”
As you may recall, in 2004, Ovda aired an investigation into the murder case that took place that year of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl in the southern Gaza Strip. At the heart of the affair was an IDF officer, Capt. R., who shot to death in Iman al-Hamas, whom he identified as a suspicious figure who was approaching an area near the post he commanded, which was forbidden to move.