<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Dos and Don&#8217;ts of Palestine – A&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>By Remi Kanazi</strong></p>
<p>don&#8217;t call it genocide<br />
we don&#8217;t want to offend anyone<br />
if we offend them<br />
they&#8217;ll never listen to us<br />
we have to be reasonable</p>
<p>1,400 is just a number<br />
no names<br />
no death<br />
we want peace and negotiations</p>
<p>don’t mention Zionism<br />
if you mention Zionism<br />
they’ll call you anti-Semitic<br />
and people will believe them</p>
<p>don’t cite Palestinian sources<br />
no one will believe you<br />
I won’t believe you<br />
trust Israeli sources</p>
<p>don’t ever be angry<br />
if you’re angry<br />
they’ll call you angry<br />
if they’re angry<br />
everyone will call them<br />
understandably emotional</p>
<p>we have to be pragmatic<br />
pragmatism is not a euphemism<br />
for concessions<br />
although it may feel that way</p>
<p>don’t mention Allah or martyrs<br />
it reminds them of Al Qaeda and 9/11<br />
it’s not your job to fix their ignorance</p>
<p>don’t talk about refugees<br />
boycott<br />
or a one-state solution<br />
if we want to win<br />
we have to compromise<br />
the road to peace is just ahead</p>
<p>don’t make analogies that include<br />
the Holocaust, Nazis, or the Warsaw Ghetto<br />
only Israelis are allowed to do this<br />
when discussing wars on<br />
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran</p>
<p>don’t mention Yaffa, Haifa, Safad<br />
or where your family is from<br />
but if you do<br />
nod when random people say they love Israel<br />
it doesn’t matter where you came from<br />
you can’t go back</p>
<p>don’t<br />
just don’t<br />
and that will lead to doing.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>&#8211; Remi Kanazi is the editor of  &#8216;Poets For Palestine&#8217;. Contact him at: </em><a href="mailto:Remroum@gmail.com"><em>Remroum@gmail.com</em></a><em> and visit: visit </em><a href="http://www.poetsforpalestine.com/"><em>www.poetsforpalestine.com</em></a><em>. He contributed this poem to PalestineChronicle.com.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16794">Source</a></p>
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