Making a bomb out of a molehill. Not the bomb we should have wished for, but a much more dangerous one – the release of the Kafr Qasem transcripts didn’t even raise an eyebrow. The media, except for Haaretz, barely commented, the public yawned, the matter is dead. It happens time after time: The soldiers’ organizations move heaven and earth, the military censor bans and then all that can be heard is a yawn. The yawn is still the good part: The publishing house of the dark past arouses for many feelings of pride and support, or sadly ridiculous statements of a lack of other choices. War, you know.
The procedure repeats itself: Tantura or Kafr Qasem, the killing of prisoners in 1967 or the massacre in Lod in 1948, Jenin, Jenin or the killing of the teens on the Gaza beach – nothing cracks the feeling of total justness of the Israelis, or at least their self-righteousness, the Zionist left the same as the right. Over the past few weeks, they were once again Tantura and Kafr Qasem. Even if it was still possible to argue about Tantura, for Kafr Qasem the documents resolved the truth that should have resounded. If at Tantura it was still possible to blame everything on Teddy Katz and Alon Schwarz, the researcher and the film’s director, at Kafr Qasem the official truth was exposed, razor-sharp and painful.
For whom, exactly? The Arabs knew the truth all these years, and for them there was no news in the publication of the documents and also no belated comfort. The Jews didn’t want
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Gideon Levy | 3 Aug 2022