And this is how Congress discusses Palestine: three Israel lobbyists on a panel that says Palestinian reconciliation threatens peace. Apartheid in D.C.; do Palestinians ever get a voice? No: “Edward Said wrote about this. How Zionism requires the effacement of Palestinian presence in order to succeed.” From House Foreign Affairs:

Subcommittee Hearing: The Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Threatening Peace Prospects Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa Feb 5, 2013 10:00am Witnesses Matthew Levitt, Ph.D. Director Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Michael Rubin, Ph.D. Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute Mr. David Makovsky Director Project on the Middle East Peace Process The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

As Issandr el Amrani says,