“The minutes of the Kafr Qasem trial are so shocking and upsetting not because they reveal information that is unfamiliar to history, but precisely because Israeli war crimes play such a marginal role in the formation of the state’s seminal principles.
Israel’s Hafarperet (Mole) Plan, designed to expel Arabs from the so-called “triangle” of Arab towns, has been known for 20 years, ever since the person who wrote it under the instructions of then-Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan revealed its existence. His name was Avraham (Abrasha) Tamir, the head of the IDF Central Command’s operations division at the time, later becoming an oddity in Israel’s political world.
The idea behind the plan was to exploit a future war with Jordan for the evacuation of Arab villages in this triangle. Some of the population would flee to Jordan, while others would be sent to detention camps in Israel. Ruvik Rosenthal, a journalist, author and linguist, quoted Tamir in a book he wrote, “Kafr Qasem, Facts and Myths,”
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Tom Segev, Haaretz | Jul 31, 2022