Diplomacy for Peace is dead .... Doublespeak for War is alive and kicking

Few extracts from:

Dr.Larbi Sadiki article at BRICS Post:
Gaza Diplomacy: The War of Words  
The diplomatic world seems to be lost for words. Because of this, many more civilians must lose their lives in the Middle East. That is, until diplomats working on a permanent ceasefire between the warring Israelis and Palestinians grasp the artistry to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
So, that text of a future agreement reads endlessly like a sub-text.
Is the diplomatic world being economical with truth?...........

.............Sporting, tourism, education, cultural exchange, science and technology, and trade are all used to facilitate global dialogue and collective interests and security, thereby rendering war between nations useless.

Diplomacy-Speak?
The Middle East may be the ‘exception’. Where Palestinians are concerned, the very limited ‘soft power’ used is deployed to make people cope with the status quo: living under occupation endlessly........

........But as the death toll mounts, the words with which international diplomats cut up the world and construct power never fail to perplex, to say the least.

Whereas for the rest of the human race language is used to reveal, for diplomats words are put together to conceal..........

........That is, diplomats may feel ‘upset’, ‘worried’, ‘bothered’ and ‘disturbed’ by the violence perpetrated against Palestinian civilians but not enough to warrant condemning it head-on as unacceptable conduct that warrants legal prosecution under international law.

There are two problems: Firstly, who does qualify as a ‘civilian’ in Israel or Palestine? The house of Ismail Haniyyeh, the Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza, was bombed a few days ago. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, who most likely ordered the bombing, would not obviously think so.

Thus, Netanyahu’s own status as a ‘civilian’ may not be straightforward either.

Secondly, precautions demanded by international law cannot be taken seriously: Hamas is guilty of firing (‘stupid’) rockets indiscriminately; and Israel with its (‘smart’) bombs and jet fighters deploys its firepower as indiscriminately, but also disproportionately and systematically.

Note the courageous criticism against such misuse of force in the Occupied Territories voiced by former air force first lieutenant Yuli Novak, who heads the group ‘Breaking the Silence’, an organization of military veterans from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) who seek to reveal the realities of life under a brutal occupation.

Novak and other former officers oppose systematic use of violence against heavily populated areas in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.............