Today marks the 66th anniversary of the #KafrQasim massacre, where Israeli border patrol murdered 49 unsuspecting Palestinian villagers on the eve of the 1956 war. 
Kafr Qasim was one of 7 Palestinian villages put under curfew the eve of the war. The curfew was to begin at 6:00 PM, the mayor of Kafr Qasim was informed of the curfew at 5:30 PM.
This was not enough time for the news to reach the villagers, especially the ones in the fields. 49 of them, mostly women and children, were massacred on their way home.
At no point did the soldiers give any warning to anyone, preferring to shoot at visibly unarmed and unaware farmers returning from their fields.
After outrage, and in an attempt to salvage its image, Israel put the soldiers on trial. All of them were released within a year and continued to climb the ranks.
The greatest insult, is perhaps that Shadmi, the commander responsible for the massacre, was fined ONE CENT. He was later promoted.
It's worth mentioning that Kafr Qasim, like all Palestinian communities in Israel prior to 1966, was governed by military law and considered a hostile population.
Israel has never had one day in its entire existence where all the people it ruled were equal.
There can be no equality in a colonial ethnocracy
There can be no equality in a colonial ethnocracy
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