Admittedly, my amusement has been less tickled of late by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and try as I might to stifle a quip or two on his latest political shenanigans in Geneva, it is too great a Gordian task.

By now his utterances have reached the four corners of a disapproving globe, with condemnation greeting his conclusion that Israel is a “brutal” regime capable of “ethnic cleansing”; a “totally racist government” founded “on the pretext of Jewish sufferings.”

So far, so Ahmadinejad – the man is renowned for vocally treading where no other politician on the world stage would venture – can we really be shocked by his expostulations?

Yes, actually, but less at the outbursts and more at the cheek of those accused, for while the media wails and points at Ahmadinejad a markedly smaller amount of rage is directed towards today’s flattening of a Palestinian home in Jerusalem.

Make that another Palestinian home.

Israel demolished two Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem last month and the Israeli authorities have announced plans to build a public park in the area that could entail the eviction of dozens of Palestinian families.

The Iranian President is on the mark and while certain quarters might argue that ethnic-cleansing is too harsh a term, in light of Israel’s previous acts – Gaza, anyone? – there is little room for lexical maneuvering.

As the saying runs, if the cap fits…