Issachar “Yiska” Shadmi, right, following his show trial.
The highest Israeli officer tried for Israel’s 1956 Kafr Qasem massacre admitted that his trial was staged to protect Jewish leaders. A Jewish historian says the massacre was part of a secret plan to expel Palestinians from Palestine
Palestinian villagers killed by the Jews in Kafr Qasim, October 29, 1956 IAK: Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper reports that the highest Israeli officer tried for Israel’s 1956 Kafr Qasem massacre admitted before his death that his trial was staged to protect military and political elites.
Israeli historian Adam Raz believes that a secret plan to transfer Israel’s Arabs was behind the 1956 attack, in which Israeli soldiers shot dead 19 men, 6 women, and 23 children (some reports give the total killed as 51).








