Mr Straw said there was ”real concern that the west has been guilty of double standards – on the one hand saying the United Nations security council resolutions on Iraq must be implemented, on the other hand, sometimes appearing rather quixotic over the implementation of resolutions about Israel and Palestine”.

quixotic (adj) : like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; prone to pursue unrealizable goals; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded; not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; ”as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood”; ”a romantic disregard for money”; ”a wild-eyed dream of a world state” [syn: romantic, wild-eyed] – source: Guardian 28.3.2002, p. 20