This is an exemplary diplomatic week for the policy of double standards.
Between Geneva and Jerusalem a firmness with variable geometry.
Certainly the weeks go by without being the same.
Last week we had hope for an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue and then Laurent Fabius arrived in Geneva with the result that we know and that we have commented a lot.
Tomorrow Francois Hollande arrives in Israel crowned with that firmness towards Iran; logically he should apply the same firmness towards the Israeli government and its policies toward the Palestinians, occupation, colonization and violation of so many international resolutions in the most absolute impunity.
This is a little note of bad mood but also of great sadness and to say that the double standard is the diplomatic doctrine that I despise the most, the one that leads the oppressed to revolt after years of misunderstanding by an international community disabled by the fear of being treated as anti-Semitic.
I do not want to go into the eternal debate of Israel's security, this blog is full of it, even less make a historical or a policy review of who did or did not do, could have or should have done.
A historical review would be tragic for our consciousness and would show such a negative assessment of the situation of the Palestinians that it would mark the state of definitive failure of our hopes, already thin, to see that conflict appeased and resolved.
I just want to express that I had enough; it is the season of the double standards in diplomacy.
Would Laurent Fabius show such firmness to uphold the violated rights of the Palestinian people? I doubt it.
In reality what is the weight of a ghettoized Palestinian population and 70 million Iranians under embargo for 40 years, against the power of Israel, its Diaspora and its tragic story and yet ...
Justice and fairness require an equivalent firmness or even benevolence in both cases, I would add that an even greater firmness would be appropriate towards the Israeli government, which has hundreds of dead on its record, Palestinian men, women and children, while the Iranian nuclear issue, so far, to my knowledge, has not killed anyone yet!
We are in an equation that should be easy to solve: same causes same effects ... Well, not really!
Two states violate international resolutions, one is under embargo and international confidence is denied forever, one persists with complete impunity, dictates its law, and addresses ultimatums to the U.S. and the world.
More than ever come to my mind the words of the fable...
"Depending on whether you are powerful or miserable ... court judgments you will make white or black."
No, really I do not understand anything in such diplomacy and I refuse to resign myself to think that it is the only possible way.