The brutal massacre of innocent Palestinian villagers, citizens of Israel, in Kafr Qasim is one of the most traumatic events in Israeli history. From October 1956 to this day, this massacre is raising troubling questions, some of which remain unanswered to this very day. How can we explain the contradictory, equivocal response of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion? What is the legacy of the famous ruling of Justice Benjamin Halevy on a “manifestly illegal order”? What are the dangers lurking in the future? And what has “Operation Mole” to do with the above? A new article in the Owl. I will be happy for your comments.
In August that same year, for example, a southern platoon kidnapped a Bedouin girl at the desert. The platoon commander, known to us only in his first name, Moshe, asked the soldiers to vote what to do with her. After a quick deliberation it was decided to make her the platoons sex slave. The little girl was brutally raped by many of the soldiers, and later shot by Moshe and his troops in order to cover the crime. She was washed, writes Lavi Aviv in Haaretz, her hair was cut and she was raped, no one knows how many times. Then she was executed and buried near the military outpost. A terrifying horror, wrote David Ben Gurion, Israels founder and its first prime minister, in his diary. Moshe, the platoon commander, was condemned to fifteen years in jail, though he actually served much less. The affair, all in all, did not come to the attention of the public. ( There were many, many massacres in Palestine as well as in Lebanon and Syria.. The European Zionists viewed the Arabs as inferior or NON persons)
An untrue generalization, as many Israelis, then and now, were horrified from the massacre. Many of the perpetrators, by the way, were Mizrahi and not Ashkenazi, and some of them were even Muslim.
