In the absence of defense arguments, the defendant dedicated long and detailed sections to Adv. Hodak and Mr. Raz, who are not parties to the lawsuit. It is not the plaintiff's role to respond to the defendant's claims against the two aforementioned masters, and the defendant must clarify his claims against them directly and not indirectly through the lawsuit in question.
The only connection to our case is that the plaintiff was asked to address their statements in the interview, and contrary to the claim that the plaintiff supported the statements, the interview reveals the opposite picture, of reservations about their words: "... I think it is a great shame that he said what he said... ", "... Ze'ev should not have said what he said...", "... It's a shame that they stumbled with their tongues... " and this is alongside expressing a grave fear of civil war.
When the plaintiff was asked explicitly about the matter, he replied: "I am not threatening, I am expressing an opinion, " a statement that completely dismisses the defendant's thesis that he feared or felt that his life was in danger.
Deliberate distortion of the radio interview
The defendant deliberately lied and distorted the plaintiff's words in the interview, while attributing to the plaintiff statements that he had never said and interpreting his words with the opposite intentions. The plaintiff noted that he did not express any support for the use of weapons or civil war, but rather expressed a grave and deep concern about such a catastrophe ("and may lead, God forbid, to a civil war as well"), and even expressly disapproved of Hodak and Raz's words ("It's a pity that they stumbled on their tongues").
In an attempt to divert attention from the serious defamatory statements he published, the defendant uses the "interpretation" of the plaintiff's words and not the words as they are. The defendant determines what the plaintiff meant by his words and even determines what is expected of him. Thus, for example, he claimed that the plaintiff was expected to attack Messrs. Hodak and Raz, and that since the plaintiff did not act in this way, "the listener to LarYayun understands very well that the plaintiff supports the terrible possibility of this delusion." It is not possible to interpret an expression of fear of a civil war as a desire to take up arms in the framework of that civil war.