Does anyone believe David Cameron’s claim about sanctioning Israel? It’s easy to say now he’s not in government.
Here‘s the BBC:
The former Conservative foreign secretary said before the election he had been “working up” plans to put sanctions on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
He described the two men as “extremist” and said using sanctions would send a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “this is not good enough and has to stop”.
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Lord Cameron said both men had “said things like encouraging people to stop aid convoys going into Gaza, they have encouraged extreme settlers in the West Bank with the appalling things they have been carrying out”.
Earlier this year, Smotrich suggested it might be “justified and moral” to starve Gazans and has called for Palestinian residents to leave and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
Asked why the planned sanctions did not go ahead, Lord Cameron, who was foreign secretary between 2023 and 2024, said he had been advised that it would have been “too much of a political act” during the election.
Sources from the civil service have confirmed that Cameron did set a plan in motion and it was well-advanced – but was put on hold for fear of inflaming political tensions during campaigning for the general election; triggering violence in constituencies where views about the Middle East were polarised.
Still, that only adds up to the fact that he didn’t sanction Israel or its ministers.
And it’s very easy for him to say he was going to do something, now the evidence in support of it is overwhelming – and it’s up to somebody else to actually do it.
So he urges the Labour government to do what he didn’t – and take the international consequences if it backfires in David Lammy’s – and Keir Starmer’s – face.
This Writer’s view – for what it’s worth – is that sanctioning individuals is nothing but gesture politics; it won’t induce Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from any of his genocidal policies.
The only useful move now is withdrawal of all support from Israel – financial, trade, military… and other means. Just cut it off completely and begin the process of taking that country’s leaders to The Hague, to be tried for their (still only alleged) war crimes.
But which of our politicians would be brave enough to do that?
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Does anyone believe David Cameron’s claim about sanctioning Israel?
Does anyone believe David Cameron’s claim about sanctioning Israel? It’s easy to say now he’s not in government.
Here‘s the BBC:
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Sources from the civil service have confirmed that Cameron did set a plan in motion and it was well-advanced – but was put on hold for fear of inflaming political tensions during campaigning for the general election; triggering violence in constituencies where views about the Middle East were polarised.
Still, that only adds up to the fact that he didn’t sanction Israel or its ministers.
And it’s very easy for him to say he was going to do something, now the evidence in support of it is overwhelming – and it’s up to somebody else to actually do it.
So he urges the Labour government to do what he didn’t – and take the international consequences if it backfires in David Lammy’s – and Keir Starmer’s – face.
This Writer’s view – for what it’s worth – is that sanctioning individuals is nothing but gesture politics; it won’t induce Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from any of his genocidal policies.
The only useful move now is withdrawal of all support from Israel – financial, trade, military… and other means. Just cut it off completely and begin the process of taking that country’s leaders to The Hague, to be tried for their (still only alleged) war crimes.
But which of our politicians would be brave enough to do that?
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