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===Memorials===
On November 20, 1957, 400 distinguished guests and representatives from different sectors of Israeli society, including [[Knesset]] members, cabinet ministers, members from the then ruling [[Mapai]] party, national [[trade union]] officials, and notable members from neighboring Arab villages, held a reconciliation ceremony in memory of the victims at Kafr Qasim. The ceremony was designed as a "''sulha''",{{sfn|Robinson|2006}} explicitly referring to a [[Bedouin]] clan-based conflict resolution custom.<ref>[http://www.sulha.org/category/whatisulha/ Sulha Research Center's website ]</ref> The government subsequently distributed reparations to the family of the victims. At that time, the mainstream press (such as [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency|JTA]] or [[Histadrut]] owned [[Davar]]) gives a favorable account of the ceremony,<ref>See for example: {{cite news|title=Jews and Arabs Hold Feast of Reconciliation in Arab Village |newspaper=JTA |date=21 November 1957 |url=http://archive.jta.org/article/1957/11/21/3053125/jews-and-arabs-hold-feast-of-reconciliation-in-arab-village }}{{dead link|date=March 2016 }}, {{cite news|newspaper=Davar |date=21 November 1957 |url=http://jpress.org.il/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Skin=TAUHe&BaseHref=DAV/1957/11/21&EntityId=Ar00400&ViewMode=HTML |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180043/http://jpress.org.il/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Skin=TAUHe&BaseHref=DAV%2F1957%2F11%2F21&EntityId=Ar00400&ViewMode=HTML |archivedate= 3 March 2016 |df= }}, or</ref> unlike the Arabic-language press (such as ''al-Ittihad'' and ''al-Mirsad'', sponsored by [[MAPAM]] and [[Maki (historical political party)|MAKI]] parties) who denounced it as a fraud.{{sfn|Robinson|2006|p=103}} In a 2006 academic article focusing on the massacre's commemoration, Shira Robinson<ref>Shira Robinson is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at [[Georgetown University]]: [http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/history/people/121]</ref> considers the ''sulha'' as a "charade" which villagers were highly pressurized to participate in, designed to position the conflict "within a contrived history of symmetrical violence between Arabs and Jews," staged by the government for the purpose of escaping its responsibilities and lightening the weight of the court's verdict, making the ceremony itself "part of the crime that Palestinians commemorate today."{{sfn|Robinson|2006|p=114-115}} In a 2008 academic article, Professor Susan Slyomovics<ref>Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at [[UCLA]].
In October 2006, [[Yuli Tamir]], the education minister in Israel, ordered schools around the country to observe the Kafr Qasim massacre and to reflect upon the need to disobey illegal orders. In December 2007, [[President of Israel]] [[Shimon Peres]] apologised for the massacre. During a reception in the village for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, Peres said that he came to Kafr Qasem to ask the villagers for forgiveness. "A terrible event happened here in the past, and we are very sorry for it," he said. The founder of the [[Islamic Movement in Israel]], Sheikh [[Abdullah Nimr Darwish]], also spoke at the ceremony and called on religious leaders on both sides to build bridges between the Israelis and the Palestinians.<ref name="haaretz.com"/>
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