Warning Israel: David Cameron's new line

The Conservatives, tougher with every new incarnation, have done so much harm to Britain, in terms of credibility, changing laws to suit themselves, putting themselves above laws, prioritising money over people, the already wealthy over much poorer people. 

David Cameron is a standard sort of Tory: He cut welfare while saying Britain was too unequal, despite government advisers saying it would increase child poverty. Most of all he was naive, first, to try to settle a complex issue that had divided his own party by putting it to the nation; second, for having no plan if it did not go his way and then he ran away. 

Yet, he is the only person in government showing any proper leadership. He went to Israel recently. He went to the West Bank. He met Mahmoud Abbas as well as Netanyahu. He is now calling on Israel to tone things down.

 "When I met the Israeli president, prime minister and others, I stressed over and over again that they must abide by international humanitarian law, that the number of casualties are too high and they have to have that at the top of their minds." 

 "People are actually targeting and on occasion killing Palestinian civilians, it's completely unacceptable and those people responsible for that, it's not good enough just to arrest them, they need to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned. These are crimes." 

 It sounds as though it's news to him, which, in a Foreign Secretary is worrying. The unspoken implication is that if settlers don't murder anyone, land appropriation is OK. 

 Still, it's a start. I am amazed that it is coming from a Tory, but then Cameron is a pre-Johnson Tory. In terms of trying to help calm things down and take a tougher line with Israel it's an improvement on the disaster that was James Cleverly and the indifference of Rishi Sunak.