I must admit I like classical music, and I sometimes take my time to see the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. Yesterday, the orchestre performance was fantastic, as usual, but Mr. Barenboims performance was terrific as well.

Nevertheless, when the time of celebration and best wishes came, Mr. Barenboims acted as he used to act. He toasted for a justice on the relationships on the Middle East. But Mr. Barenboims knows pretty well that this is, at this moment, unreachable.

Mr. Barenboim likes this type of situation. Being in the middle and try to have the same relationship with the two different sides is not correct, because you can be in a position in which your efforts can be manipulated by one or both sides. Perhaps Mr. Barenboim wishes, his personal wishes, are correct and honest, but there will be a time when one had to decide whether insisting on being misunderstood, or taking the right perspective and a real view of the situation. It will be on this particular moment when the commitment, when the real intentions, needed to be put in place with the reality.

Seems to me that Mr. Barenboim had not reach that moment and, if he had, he is insisting on his mistake. I would rather think the second: Mr. Barenboim is living pretty well embracing leftist ideas, being subsidied by the leftist (such as he was or he is by some of the Spanish regional governments), and taking the “politely correct” position, but not the “honest” position.

What can one expect from a person, a public person, with jewish origins, Spanish and Israeli nationality, but also Palestinian adoption? Mr. Barenboim has done some steps to join what it cannot be joined, to spread peace when peace cannot be reached. Mr. Barenboim’s toast yesterday was useless and hypocrite.

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