Genocide Don't Call it - مجزرة لا تسميها

Genocide Don't Call it

By: Remi Kanazi

Genocide Don't Call it
we don't want to offend anyone
if we offend them
they'll never listen to us
we have to be reasonable

1,400 is just a number
no names
no death
we want peace and negotiations
don’t mention Zionism
if you mention Zionism
they’ll call you anti-Semitic
and people will believe them



don't cite Palestinian sources

no one would believe you

I wouldn't believe you

trust Israeli sources


don’t ever be angry
if you’re angry
they’ll call you angry
if they’re angry
everyone will call them
understandably emotional

we have to be pragmatic
pragmatism is not a euphemism
for  concessions
although it may feel that way

don’t mention Allah or martyrs

it reminds them of Al Qaeda and 9/11

it’s not your job to fix their ignorance

don’t talk about refugees
boycott
or a one-state solution
if we want to win
we have to compromise
the road to peace is just ahead

don’t make analogies that include
Nazis, the Holocaust, or the Warsaw Ghetto
only Israelis are allowed to do this
when discussing wars on
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran

don’t mention Yaffa, Haifa, Safad
or where your family is from
but if you do
nod when random people say they love Israel
it doesn’t matter where you came from
you can’t actually go back


don’t
just don’t
and that will lead to doing.

Remi Kanazi is a Palestinian-American poet, writer, and activist based in New York City. He is the editor of Poets For Palestine (Al Jisser Group, 2008) and the author of the collection of poetry and CD, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine. His political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world, including Al Jazeera English, GRITtv with Laura Flanders, and BBC Radio. His poetry has taken him across North America, the UK, and the Middle East, and he recently appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a recurring writer in residence and advisory board member for the Palestine Writing Workshop
 مجزرة لا تسميها

شعر رامي قنازع

ترجمة: أديب قعوار

مجزرة لا تسميها

أحداً لا نريد أن نكدر

إذا كدرناهم

لنا أبداً لن يستمعوا

مجرد رقم هم  ال1400 إنسان

لا أسماء

ولا موت

فقط سلام ومفاوضات ما نريد

الصهيونية لا تذكروا

إذا الصهيونية ذكرتم

لاساميين سيعتبرونكم

والناس هم سيصدقون

مراجع فلسطينية لا تقتطفوا

فلا أحد سيصدقكم

وحتى أنا لن أصدقكم

بمراجع صهيونية ثقوا

أبداً لا تغضبوا

فإذا ما غضبتم

غاضبين سيعتبرونكم

أما هم إذا ما غضبوا

فسيعتبرهم الجميع

وبتفهم مجرد منفعلين

الظروف يجب أن نراعي

مراعاة الظروف العامة ليس للكلام تلطيفاً

التنازلات

مع أنها قد تبدو كذلك

الله ولا الشهداء أبداً لا تذكروا

فبالقاعدة و 9/11 تذكرونهم

فليس من شأنكم جهلهم أن تصوبوا

عن اللاجئين أبداً لا تتكلموا

المقاطعة

أو حل الدولة الواحدة

إذا لم نفز

علينا أن نساوم

درب السلام أمامنا

لا تحللوا ولا تناظروا ولا تذكروا

النازية، الهولوكوست

أو غيتو وارسو

فقط "الإسرائيليين" لهم الحق بذلك

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فلسطين، لبنان، سوريا وإيران...

لا تذكروا لا يافا، حيفا، صفد ولا الناصرة

أو أي مكان عائلتك أتت منه

ولكن إذا فعلت

برأسك طأطأ إذا ما أحدهم قال أنه "إسرائيل" يحب

من أين أتيت غير مهم

فالعودة فعلياً غير واردة

لا تفعل

كلا لا تفعل
فهذا يؤدي لأن تفعل

رامي قنازع شاعر، كاتب وناشط فلسطيني أمريكي، يقيم في مدينة نيويورك. رئيس تحرير "شعراء لأجل فلسطين" (مجموعة الجسر، 2008) وله ديوان شعري و CD، "حيف شعري": "كتابات عن المقاومة وفلسطين"، نشرت كتاباته السياسية في وسائل إعلام إخبارية حول العالم ومنها: فضائية الجزيرة الإنجليزية، تلفزيون GRITtv مع لورا فلاندرز، هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية BBC Radio، وقد أوصلته شاعريته إلى أوساط غبر الولايلت المتحدة الأمريكية، المملكة المتحدة، الشرق الأوسط وأخيراً ظهر في "الاحتفال الأدبي الفلسطيني" كما "الشعر العالمي". وهو كاتب متكرر في residence and advisory وعضو مجلس أدارة ل"المشغل الكتابي الفلسطيني".

Remi Kanazi: The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine

Remi Kanazi: The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine – A Poem
Translated into Arabic by:Adib S. Kawar

Remi Kanazi: The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine – A Poem

Gilad Atzmon

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/remi-kanazi-the-dos-and-donts-of-palestine-a-poem.html

don't call it genocide
we don't want to offend anyone
if we offend them
they'll never listen to us
we have to be reasonable

1,400 is just a number
no names
no death
we want peace and negotiations
don’t mention Zionism
if you mention Zionism
they’ll call you anti-Semitic
and people will believe them

don’t ever be angry
if you’re angry
they’ll call you angry
if they’re angry
everyone will call them
understandably emotional

we have to be pragmatic
pragmatism is not a euphemism
 concessions
although it may feel that way

don’t mention Allah or martyrs

it reminds them of Al Qaeda and 9/11

it’s not your job to fix their ignorance

don’t talk about refugees
boycott
or a one-state solution
if we want to win
we have to compromise
the road to peace is just ahead

don’t make analogies that include
the Holocaust, Nazis, or the Warsaw Ghetto
only Israelis are allowed to do this
when discussing wars on
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran

don’t mention Yaffa, Haifa, Safad
or where your family is from
but if you do
nod when random people say they love Israel
it doesn’t matter where you came from
you can’t go back

don’t
just don’t
and that will lead to doing.

ما يصنع وما لا يصنع لفلسطين

شعر: رامي قنازع

ترجمة: أديب قعوار

مجزره لا تدعوها

أحداً لا نريد أن نكدر

إذا كدرناهم

منا لن يسمعوا


مجرد رقم هم  ال1400 انسان

لا أسماء

ولا موت

فقط سلام ومفاوضات ما نريد

الصهيونية لا تذكروا

إذا الصهيونية ذكرتم

لا ساميين سيعتبرونكم

والناس سيصدقونهم

أبداً لا تغضبوا

فإذا ما غضبتم

غاضبين سيعتبرونكم

أما هم إذا ما غضبوا

فسيعتبرهم الجميع

وبتفهم فإنهم مجرد منفعلين



الظروف يجب أن نراعي

مراعاة الظروف العامة ليس تلطيفاً للكلام

التنازلات

مع أنها قد تبدو كذلك

 لا الله ولا الشهداء أبداً لا تذكروا

فبالقاعدة و 9/11 تذكرونهم

فليس من شأنكم أن تصوبوا جهلهم

عن اللاجئين أبداً لا تتكلموا

المقاطعة

أو حل الدولة الواحدة

إذا لم نفز

علينا أن نساوم

درب السلام أمامنا

لا تحللوا ولا تناظروا ولا تذكروا

الهولوكوست، النازيين أو غيتو وارسو

فقط الإسرائيليين لهم الحق بذلك

عندما تبحث الحروب على:

فلسطين، لبنان، سوريا وإيران...

لا تذكروا لا يافا، حيفا، صفد ولا الناصرة

أو أي مكان أتت منه عائلتك

ولكن إذا فعلت

برأسك طأطأ إذا ما أحدهم قال أنه إسرائيل يحب

من أين أتيت غير مهم

فالعودة غير واردة

لا تفعل

كلا لا تفعل

فهذا يؤدي لأن تفعل

The Zionist movement both at the same time prostitutes itself

The Zionist movement both at the same time prostitutes itself

to international colonialism and vice versa

The author of the article Ha'aretz Journalist's Speaking Tour: Sponsored by Anti-Zionists said: “One of Israel's greatest strengths is, conversely, one of its greatest weaknesses in the battle over its international image. Israel possesses a free and vibrant press that allows a full range of critical opinion and accountability over government and state bodies. Indeed” If it is true that the Zionist entity is a “democratic state, it is democratic for only its imported Jewish citizens, which is denied to its indigenous Arab population, who are called “Israeli Arabs”, who are treated like less than being equal to its imported Jews. They are treated as less than 3rd. class citizens.

1st. Palestinian Arabs even those of them who carry “Israeli” identity cards are:

A- Are denied most senior governmental posts even though they can run for parliamentary elections.

B-  Their privately owned lands could be confiscated without being paid for their value. and they cannot bid to buy confiscated Arab land, as being considered as property of the “Jewish people”, which can only be sold to Jews even those who are not practicall “Israeli citizens”!

They are denied the right to publicly demonstrate for their national rights, and if they do they are shot and killed like during the Arab land day, Arab workers In his latest speaking tour, Levy is promoting his new book "The Punishment of Gaza" in Britain. Despite (or perhaps taking advantage of) the rarified atmosphere surrounding Israel's image in the UK, Levy has chosen to ally himself with radical anti-Israel organizations.

C-  20/5/1990, thirteen Arabs workers were killed in protest against the July 2006 against Lebanon and in many other occasions.

D-  There is discrimination against the Arab educational system especially in budget allowances, and teaching national Palestinian Arab history, even mentioning the word “Nakbah” is prohibited.

E-  Their privately owned homes could be demolished on the claim as being built without official “Israeli” certificates.

F-   “Israeli Arabs” are denied to have their own universities.

etc.

2- The author added, “One of Israel's most vociferous critics in the Israeli media is Ha'aretz commentator Gideon Levy who regularly demonizes the Jewish state to foreign audiences and in his own newspaper columns.” How could they claim to be a democracy and deny an “Israeli” newspaper the freedom of expression.

3rd. “Levy, however, goes beyond legitimate criticism of Israel, crossing red lines and allying himself with those who refer to Israel as a racist 'apartheid state', promote boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and wish to see the very destruction of Israel.” In a real democracy there are no limits to freedom of expression, What other than being a racist and 'apartheid state' it could be with the above mentioned limitations on the democratic rights of the indigenous Arab population of occupied Palestine.

4th. “In his latest speaking tour, Levy is promoting his new book The Punishment of Gaza in Britain. Despite (or perhaps taking advantage of the rarified atmosphere surrounding Israel's image in the UK, Levy has chosen to ally himself with radical anti-Israel organizations.” What could be the war launched against a supposedly independent Gaza Slip nick named by the Zionist entity “Cast Lead” that means hot boiling lead poured on the people of Gaza in punished for daring to practice self defense, which Zionist use whenever they commit massacre against Palestinians resisting Zionist occupation and war and human rights crimes.

Europe and the United States which used to give almost overwhelming support to the Zionist entity, at least on the popular level and not on the governmental level, is shifting on a wide scale their support to the Palestinian Arab people. there should be a good reason for that, namely daily crimes are being committed against Palestinian and other Arabs, which the world sees live on the international media.

It seems that Zionists believe or they are trying to convince themselves that they are really g-d’s chosen people, and he promised them other people’s land; so they see fit to say, “While Levy is perfectly within his rights as a private citizen to travel freely and address any audience he likes, we question both his judgment and his agenda. Does he really not have any idea of the particularly vicious nature of the fringe groups he is being sponsored by?” Of course others who feel with other persecuted peoples are considered by them to be the fringe groups of the particularly vicious nature, don’t they stand in the face and oppose there self created g-d whom they appointed themselves to be his chosen people?!

It is not strange that Zionist continuously come out with lies and commit crimes against their own folks to serves their own purposes and achieves their own goals even at the cost of victimizing their their men and women,  “The Royal Court Theatre in London had originally planned to stage the play, written by the British Trotskyist Jim Allen, in 1987. The play alleged that "the Zionists" collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust and went so far as to imply that "the Zionists" positively desired the slaughter of Jews in order to help them generate sufficient public sympathy and Jewish emigration to found the State of Israel.”

Adib S. Kawar

Five Stanzas for Revolution - خمســة مقاطــع للثــورة

Five Stanzas for Revolution

By: Muhammad Ali Shams Edine

Translated by: Adib S. Kawar

I  Not white is the revolution

Not red or rosy is the revolution

The color of colors is the revolution

Take care to live in the heart of the revolution

So as to live without

A name

A picture

Or an address!!!

II

In squares yelling was roaring

The people want…

The people want…

Never mind, what you want we shall not ask you

Enough to raise the voice

In this desolate wilderness… In the desert of death

III

Something the distracted man, said

Something and defeated and fatigued we were

Asleep like lost time the revolution was

For us enough it is that the revolution died

And a spade we took to in silence to bury it

And our hands we cleaned and returned

Astounded we were… in our ribs we were digging

IV

Poets said: “We searched

for revolution’s origin in words

In ancient books

In yellow papers

Wilderness and mirage we saw

The thirst of the thirsty it doesn’t

 quench, the burn of the thirsty

From the tunnel of words we escaped

and the cave of sorrows

to find that babies is the revolution

in the wilderness are playing

V

The old man said: For the meaning of freedom are you asking?

A sea or a flying eagle?

A pearl or a perplexed star?

An open wound in the sun’s eye?

or a pulsing heart in a volcano?

The old man laughed…

Like whispering he mumbled

Is the condition to see is be blinded, O master…

To blind my eyes?!

Is it…

(And to freedom he pointed)

To freedom he pointed

Possibly to accept as dowry by her suitor

Less than death?

O liberty…

O my distrait dowry… my dowry

Allow me in doubt to your steps follow

The sparkling of hoof’s strikes

When on the Arab land

Drawing the orbit’s map..

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      خمســة مقاطــع للثــورة

محمد علي شمس الدين

I
الثورة ليست بيضاءْ
الثورة ليست حمراء ولا ورديةْ
الثورة لونُ الألوانْ
فاحرص أن تسكن في قلب الثورةْ
كي لا تحيا وتموت بلا
إسم
أو رسم
أو عنوانْ

II

كان هتاف يهدر في الساحاتْ:
الشعب يريدْ...
الشعب يريدْ...
لا بأس ولا نسألكم ماذا تبغونْ
يكفي أن يرتفع الصوتْ
في هذا القفر الموحش من صحراء الموتْ

I I I

قال الرجل الذاهل: شبنْا
شبْنا وهزمنا وتعبنا
والثورة نائمة كالزمن المفقودْ
فحسبنا أن الثورة ماتتْ
وأخذنا رفشاً كي ندفنها في صمتْ
وحين نفضنا أيدينا ورجعنا
أذهلنا أنّا كنّا نحفر في اضلعنا

IV

قال الشعراءُ: بحثنا
عن أصل الثورة في الكلماتْ
في الكتب الدهريّة
والأوراق الصفراءْ
فرأينا تيها وسراباً
لا يروي غلّ الظمآنْ
وخرجنا من سرداب الألفاظ
ومن كهف الأحزانْ
فوجدنا أن الثورة أطفال
تلعب في أرجاء الساحةْ

V

قال الشيخ: أتسألني عن معنى للحريّة؟
بحر أم نسر طائرْ؟
لؤلؤة أم نجم حائر؟
جرح مفتوح في عين الشمسْ
أم قلب ينبض في بركانْ؟
ضحك الشيخ
وغمغم مثل الهمس:
هل شرطي كي أبصر يا مولايْ
أن تظلم عينايْ؟
هلْ...
(وأشار الى الحريةْ)
يمكن أن ترضى مهراً من طالبها
أدنى وأقل من الموتْ؟
يا حريّة
يا مهري الشارد يا مهري
هبني أن أتبع في الريّهْ
وقع خطاكْ
ان أبصر برق الحافرْ
وهو يخط على الأرض العربيةْ
خارطة أخرى للأفلاكْ

O our home: One day we shall return -  سنعود يوماً يا دار

O our home: One day we shall return

By the little girl: Siham Ehab Adali

Translated by: Adib S. Kawar

“You shall not remember it” they say

It, you in five days, you shall forget

No, it is sixty three years

and engraved in our memory it is still

Oh… How the house and the garden, we still remember

And the grandmother’s voice us calling

O boys and girls… come, a story let me tell you

The inheritance of our land story

that never we shall give up

Repeatedly repeating again and again

Without weariness or boredom

A story of passion, struggle and strife

Till rockets, canons and bullets came

To some of us throw wounded, war prisoners and martyrs

and the rest granted the title of refugees

Without homes for them… and keys in their hands

saying: O our home a day we shall return

O our home a day we shall return

And ours victory shall be…

سنعود يوماً يا دار

كلمات الطفلة الفلسطينية/ سهام إيهاب الدالي

يقولون لن تتذكروها

كلها خمسة أيام و تنسوها

لا بل بقينا ثلاثة وستون عاما

في ذاكرتنا محفورة, في أفكارنا باقية

آه ... كم نتذكر الدار والحاكوره

وسماع صوت الجدة تنادينا

أيها الأولاد تعالوا أروي لكم قصة

قصة وراثة أراضينا

التي لن نتنازل عنها

ترددها مرات و مرات

بلا كلل و بلا ملل

قصة عشق، كفاح و نضال

حتى أتت الصواريخ، المدفعيات و الرصاص

لتسقط بعضنا جرحى، أسرى و شهداء

و تمنح الباقي لقب لاجئ

لا بيت له .....و بيده مفتاح

و يقول سنعود يوما يا دار

سنعود يوما يا دار

و سيكون لنا الانتصار

 

The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine .....ما يصنع وما لا يصنع لفلسطين‏

Remi Kanazi: The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine – A Poem
Gilad Atzmon

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/remi-kanazi-the-dos-and-donts-of-palestine-a-poem.html

don't call it genocide
we don't want to offend anyone
if we offend them
they'll never listen to us
we have to be reasonable

1,400 is just a number
no names
no death
we want peace and negotiations
don’t mention Zionism
if you mention Zionism
they’ll call you anti-Semitic
and people will believe them

don’t ever be angry
if you’re angry
they’ll call you angry
if they’re angry
everyone will call them
understandably emotional

we have to be pragmatic
pragmatism is not a euphemism
 concessions
although it may feel that way

don’t mention Allah or martyrs

it reminds them of Al Qaeda and 9/11

it’s not your job to fix their ignorance

don’t talk about refugees
boycott
or a one-state solution
if we want to win
we have to compromise
the road to peace is just ahead

don’t make analogies that include
the Holocaust, Nazis, or the Warsaw Ghetto
only Israelis are allowed to do this
when discussing wars on
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran

don’t mention Yaffa, Haifa, Safad
or where your family is from
but if you do
nod when random people say they love Israel
it doesn’t matter where you came from
you can’t go back

don’t
just don’t
and that will lead to doing.

ما يصنع وما لا يصنع لفلسطين

شعر: رامي قنازع

ترجمة: أديب قعوار

مجزره لا تدعوها

أحداً لا نريد أن نكدر

إذا كدرناهم

منا لن يسمعوا

مجرد رقم هم  ال1400 انسان

لا أسماء

ولا موت

فقط سلام ومفاوضات ما نريد

الصهيونية لا تذكروا

إذا الصهيونية ذكرتم

لا ساميين سيعتبرونكم

والناس سيصدقونهم

أبداً لا تغضبوا

فإذا ما غضبتم

غاضبين سيعتبرونكم

أما هم إذا ما غضبوا

فسيعتبرهم الجميع

وبتفهم فإنهم مجرد منفعلين

الظروف يجب أن نراعي

مراعاة الظروف العامة ليس تلطيفاً للكلام

التنازلات

مع أنها قد تبدو كذلك

لا الله ولا الشهداء أبداً لا تذكروا

فبالقاعدة و 9/11 تذكرونهم

فليس من شأنكم أن تصوبوا جهلهم

عن اللاجئين أبداً لا تتكلموا

المقاطعة

أو حل الدولة الواحدة

إذا لم نفز

علينا أن نساوم

درب السلام أمامنا

لا تحللوا ولا تناظروا ولا تذكروا

الهولوكوست، النازيين أو غيتو وارسو

فقط الإسرائيليين لهم الحق بذلك

عندما تبحث الحروب على:

فلسطين، لبنان، سوريا وإيران...

لا تذكروا لا يافا، حيفا، صفد ولا الناصرة

أو أي مكان أتت منه عائلتك

ولكن إذا فعلت

برأسك طأطأ إذا ما أحدهم قال أنه إسرائيل يحب

من أين أتيت غير مهم

فالعودة غير واردة

لا تفعل

كلا لا تفعل

فهذا يؤدي لأن تفعل

Congress and AIPAC?‏

Congress and AIPAC?‏

Arab Revolts resistance are the answer

“He said recent events suggest that while (the revolts spreading across the Middle East) are not the immediate  end of the State of Israel, he believes they are harbingers and signal the ‘beginning of the end of the State of Israel as we have known it. And that will be good for America and humanity.”

He quoted Dov Lior, the rabbi of Kiryat Araba, an illegal settlement near Al-Khalil (Hebron), who according to media reports told a conference organized to discuss how to get non-Jews in mandatory Palestine to leave the country for the sake of Jewish immigrants who had no roots in Palestine

Panic in the Houses of Congress and AIPAC? 
Franklin LambBeirut

On April 13, 2011, more than a dozen Israel “First, last and always” US congressional leaders from both houses of Congress held an urgent conference call organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Their purpose was to discuss how best to promote Israel during next month’s US visit by Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and more importantly how to confront the rapidly changing Middle East political landscape. One consensus was that no one saw it coming and that is was dangerous for Israel.
 Among those participating were former Jewish Chairman of powerful committees including Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who headed the Banking Committee; Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), ex-chairman of the Commerce and Energy committee; Howard Berman (D-Calif.), ex-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), ex-chairwoman of the foreign operations subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee as well as Eric Cantor, House Majority leader, the highest rankling Jewish member of Congress in history.

What AIPAC operatives reportedly told the conferees was that Netanyahu is once again furious with President Barack Obama and outraged by what he sees as a vacillating US Government attitude towards Israeli needs. They were told that the Israeli PM sees real political danger for Israel in the shifting US public opinion in favor of the young sophisticated attractive Arab and Muslims increasingly seen on satellite channels from the region who remind the American public of their own ideals.
Netanyahu, the conferees were told, wants Congress to flex its muscle with the White House and deliver a strong message to President Obama that his political future is tied to Israel’s. Hence, the current “America needs Israel more than ever stupid!” campaign is wafting from the Israel lobby across the talk radio airwaves. 

 
In addition, as more Israeli officials are indicted for various domestic crimes, and some harbor fears of arrest for international ones, 68% of the American Jewish community, according to one by poll commissioned last month by Forward, believe the US Israel lobby is increasingly fossilized with the likes of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) director Abe Foxman’s vindictive infighting among several of the largest Jewish lobby organizations which continue to lose  memberships, especially among the young.

Congressman Eric Cantor lamented that “Israel is badly losing the US College campuses”, despite heavy financial investments the past few years to curb American students growing support for Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, all dreaded symbols of the growing opposition to the 19th Century Zionist colonial enterprise. “Support for Palestine is skyrocketing,” he claimed. “Until Palestine is freed from Zionist occupation no Arab or Muslim is truly free of Western hegemony,” according to one assistant editor of Harvard University’s student newspaper, the Crimson.

Admitting that the Mossad did not foresee even the Tunisian or Egyptian uprisings some AIPAC staffers, of whom there are more than 100, admit to not knowing how to react to the topics they were presented with for discussion, some of which included:

• The Egyptian public emphatic insistence that the 1978 Camp David Accords be scrapped and that the Rafah crossing be opened. The latter has just been announced and the former is expected to be achieved before the end of the year.

• The change of regimes and the dramatic rise in publicly expressed anti-Israel sentiment and insistence that Israel close its embassy and Egypt withdraw its recognition of the Zionist state.

• The apparent rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas which has been increasingly demanded by the Palestinians under occupation and in the Diaspora.

• The fact that the new regime in Cairo is seeking to upgrade its ties with Gaza's Hamas rulers as well as Iran.

• With respect to possible PA-Hamas rapprochement, U.S. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor is trying to reassure Israel before Netanyahu’s visit by announcing this week that "The United States supports Palestinian reconciliation on terms which promote the cause of peace, but to play a constructive role in achieving peace, any Palestinian government must renounce violence, abide by past agreements, and recognize Israel's right to exist."

AIPAC, frequently knocks heads with the Israeli embassy in Washington for control of visiting Israeli PM’s and important governments schedules will control what Netanyahu says and does.  AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr recently told a group of visiting Jewish student activists from California that “sometimes there is confusion in this town over just where the Israeli Embassy is located, but let me assure you it’s no more than 300 yards from the Capitol Dome on North Capitol Street, NW.”

AIPAC, not the Israeli Embassy will write the final draft of Netanyahu’s speeches including the themes he will emphasize. According to a Congressional source with AIPAC connections, Netanyahu’s visit will focus on the following:

• Bashing Iran to please the White House. However, this mantra will have to compete with   the democratic revolutions that are sweeping the Arab world and which are terrifying not just Netanyahu, but also AIPAC and their hirelings in congress.

• Warning against the dangers to “the peace process” of any PA-Hamas unity government.

• Warnings about the threats to Israel from Egypt and popular calls for scrapping of the 1978 Camp David Accords, ending the Egyptian subsidy and supply of 40% of Israel’s natural gas, closing the Israeli Embassy, the dangers of permanently opening the Rafah border crossing over concern of building up a "dangerous military machine" in northern Sinai, according to an Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity to the Washington Post.

• The tried and tested bromide that “Israel has no peace partner to negotiate with,” will be used, but this too has lost its bite given that the Palestine Papers have shown that the PA has for five years habitually caved into Israel demands and are widely viewed as collaborators with Israel in preserving the status quo-- so what more could be expected from them? The truth is that Mahmoud Abbas and Salem Fayyad are Netanyahu, Liberman’s and Barak’s favorite “peace partners.”

• Netanyahu will hint at - and AIPAC will drill in - the idea that the Obama administration has been too hard on Israel.

While Netanyahu announced this week that "I will have the opportunity to air the main parts of Israel’s diplomatic and defense policies during my visit in the United States”, he informed sources that his main goal and timing of his visit is to undermine a rumored initiative that President Obama’s team has been working on.

Netanyahu, according to AIPAC, also plans to attack the UN’s plan to admit Palestine and its offices are preparing a media blitz in an attempt to undermine the U.N. recognition of Palestine by arguing that such a General Assembly action would not in reality mean Palestinian sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem because of the fact that Israel currently controls those territories. AIPAC is arguing that such United Nations recognition of Palestine would only reiterate the principle, previously articulated by the U.N which denies the legitimacy of Israel's claim to territories acquired by force in the war of June 1967.

In reality, and as AIPAC well knows, UN recognition of Palestine would have a devastating effect on Israel’s legitimacy and would fuel an international campaign to force every colonist out of the West Bank. Given the feelings of virtually all people in the Middle East and North Africa toward Israel, this could dramatically undermine the apartheid state. AIPAC and Israel’s agents in Congress also ignore the fact that the U.N. is the only the international body that admitted Israel as a member state in May 1949, although the resolution noted a connection between Israel's recognition and the implementation of resolution 181 of November 1947, which called for partition of what had been British Mandate Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.

The reason that intense angst and even fear stalks the Houses of Congress and AIPAC is that Netanyahu will remind his hosts in the coming days that Israel has always called “home” is that some US officials are starting to express treasonous thoughts long kept to themselves.

One seemingly shocking statement was made to a visiting Oregon delegation during a recent visit to Congressional offices by a Member of Congress never known for being publicly critical of Israel. As reported via email: “He said recent events suggest that while (the revolts spreading across the Middle East) are not the immediate  end of the State of Israel, he believes they are harbingers and signal the ‘beginning of the end of the State of Israel as we have known it. And that will be good for America and humanity.”

"What seems to have particularly upset him was his own mentioning to the group of a recent report about a conference of Rabbis in Israel who are demanding the expulsion of non-Jews, especially Palestinians, from occupied Palestine in order to maintain the "ethnical and religious purity of the peoples of Israel."

 He quoted Dov Lior, the rabbi of Kiryat Araba, an illegal settlement near Al-Khalil (Hebron), who according to media reports told a conference organized to discuss how to get non-Jews in mandatory Palestine to leave the country for the sake of Jewish immigrants who had no roots in Palestine: u"Today there is a lot of land in Saudi Arabia and in Libya, too. There is a lot of land in other places. Send them there." As scholar Khalid Amayreh reminds us, it was Lior, who in 1994 praised arch-terrorist Baruch Goldstein for massacring 29 Arab worshipers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in downtown Hebron, said peace in the Holy Land was out of question because the Arabs wouldn't allow Jews to usurp the land.

Meanwhile, a large coalition of pro peace and pro-Palestinian organizations, under the umbrella of http://www.moveoverAIPAC.org/ is preparing a new and different American reception for the Israeli Prime Minister.