To describe Gaza as a “prison camp” is puzzling to say the least. Is this not an area with top drawer stores, fine restaurants and attractive beaches? If by “prison camp” Cameron is exaggerating the fact that the movements of the residents of Gaza outside that territory are restricted, perhaps the prime minister should be examining the true cause and not heaping the blame on Israel.

Were the terrorist administration of Hamas to desist from attacking Israel and colluding with Iran and other fellow terror regimes in an attempt to destabilise Israel, perhaps then the people of Gaza, whose best interests it purports to espouse, would be able to live a normal life with freer passage in and out of neighbouring Israel.

Perhaps, too, were Mr Cameron to examine precisely where aid funds for the Palestinian territories are being deployed, he might well discover that these are in many cases being used to line the pockets of Hamas grandees while their people starve or to fund terror activity against Israel.

Unlike his immediate predecessors, Cameron has at the least demonstrated an insensitivity to the root causes of the conflict in the Middle East but more likely a complete lack of understanding of the underlying issues.

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