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Western countries (politicians and media) really only care if they have strategic interests in a region which in Sudan they don't have. They always use the humanitarian/democracy angle to justify their wars. Which is a shame, but it works on their own populations. In the Israel Palestine conflict it's really more about the special role Israel has. People are applying higher standards to its actions. If you are in a position to end the vicious cycle and then reenact the same tactics it lays bare a hypocritical and cynical side people have a hard time to support. If no side learns to grief and let go of their past this will go on for millennia. Yin-Yang only gets resolved from black and white if we start to see ourselves in the eye of the others. Same fears, same hopes, just different tribes we have been born into.

Applying a double standard is admitting that there is no standard, only subjective interests. When it comes to the Arab Israeli conflict I think Golda Meir (former prime minister of Israel) got it right. The war will stop when the Arabs learn to love their children more then they hate the Jews.