The article was written in the context of the torture that was used in the clandestine police interrogation of Amiram Ben Uliel and a subsequent tweet posted by Rothman in which he commented in general that he doesn’t know “whether the judicial system that bases a conviction on a confession received through torture deserves to be considered a system that administers a fair trial.”
After MK Rothman filed a libel suit, through attorney Uriel Nizri, against the JPost for the defamatory statements attributed to him, the newspaper published an apology notice stating that MK Rothman did not make any statement that included support for terrorism, and that they apologize for any discomfort this may have caused him.
They added: "Frankly - we at the Jerusalem Post despise right wing and religious Knesset members like MK Rothman and we look forward to attacking him and his ilk in the future. But when we started smelling a libel suit we figured - Better write this brief apology and save millions of shekels and a lot of heartache than not say anything. But take our apology with a grain of salt. It is just the most prudent thing to do under the circumstances. Wink wink 馃槈".
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Mussar Haskel: When you apologize - be sincere about it.
