The UK is changing sides in the Middle East

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak began the week with radical decisions yesterday. First, he dismissed Home Secretary Suella Braverman. He appointed James Cleverly in her place.

Immediately thereafter, former Prime Minister David Cameron was appointed as Foreign Secretary. The change in these two most important ministries in the country must be read carefully.

It is known that the Israel-Palestine policy lies behind the dismissal of Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

Braverman's comments on pro-Palestine marches and her perspective on the issue prepared her end, also due to public pressure.

However, the appointment of former Prime Minister David Cameron as Foreign Secretary is an indication that the United Kingdom is planning a radical change in its Middle East policy.

To understand this, one must focus on Cameron's term as prime minister.

The British Government seems to want to benefit from the moderate atmosphere of Cameron, who served as Prime Minister between 2010 and 2016.

In particular, the dismissed Home Secretary Suella Braverman's generally anti-immigrant stance and her perspective on the Palestine issue were extremely harsh. This stance by the minister also put the government in a difficult position regarding the events in Gaza, to which the public has also begun to react.

The British press's unconditional support for Israel regarding Gaza is beginning to fade. The images coming from Gaza are causing the country's leading journalists to gradually show their reaction. Immigrants living in the United Kingdom have shown how powerful they are as voters in the Palestine protests. The support of the opposition has also brought immigrants even closer to the Labour Party.

Let us come to David Cameron's Israel-Palestine policy in his political career... His statements during his visit to Turkey in 2010 had caused a great stir both in the United Kingdom and in the world at that time. Cameron, who said, "Gaza cannot remain an open-air prison," had faced a major backlash. In fact, The Independent newspaper had served the news to its readers with the headline "Cameron declares war on Israel."

In 2014, during his premiership, a bill submitted to the House of Commons was passed, and Palestine was officially recognized as a state by the UK.

David Cameron's appointment as Foreign Secretary and Suella Braverman's dismissal are indicators that the United Kingdom has begun to approach the events in Gaza from a different perspective.