Is there not also a profound irony in the fact that the diatribes written by Carol Gould – who lives in Britain – are almost all what could easily be perceived as bitterly anti-British .. yet she is continually whining about what she sees as anti-Americanism?
She will no doubt argue that she isn’t in the least bit anti-British and that she is simply being critical of certain aspects of life in Britain; but exactly the same is true of all the things that she complains is anti-Americanism.
In Carol Gould’s twisted world of pitiful paranoia, any criticism of any aspect of America, or American policy, is viewed as prejudiced and anti-American – whereas any criticisms she makes are simply an objective commentary.
Any criticism by one person is painted as the widely held opinion of the whole country.
The simple truth is that if a foreigner were sat in America, writing the sort of banal stuff about America that she writes about Britain, then she – and indeed most of the Pajamas audience – would be demanding that persons arrest and deportation from America. I think it is a testament to the tolerance of British society that no one calls for her expulsion.
In the final analysis, the sort of drivel she writes does far more damage to our mutual perceptions of one-an-others countries than any of the largely fictional stuff she writes about – which then begs the question whether creating that sort of divide isn’t exactly what she is setting out to achieve in the first place? And if so, why .. what is her divisive motive?
Does she ever comment on the fact that polls here in Britain persistently, and by a very large margin, show that there is no country in the world that the British have a higher regard for, and identify, with than the United States?
Does she ever comment on the fact that most people in Britain know infinitely more about what is going on in the United States than they do about what is going on a few miles away in mainland Europe?
Does she ever comment on the fact that more Britain’s will visit America than any other country in the world?
If her motives were truly to foster greater understanding between our countries, are these not the sort of things she would be focussing her attentions on .. rather than doing her doing her most excellent to create an impression of a nonexistent great Anglo-American and to create the thoroughly inaccurate impression that Britain is a deeply anti-American country?
Why does she consciously agitate to force people into extremist positions that create the sort of disparaging arguments that have taken place here?
As both a Jew and a Zionist (but not the sort of unquestioning Zionist that she is), I think I know the answers – but I will leave you to make your own minds up.
As a British Jew, I will however give you a clue in the fact that most of our Jewish community here in Britain coexist peacefully with Muslims and give equal priority to both Palestinians and Israelis in their quest for a peaceful and secure future .. and Carol Gould, along with her dear friend Melanie Phillips, REALLY detests that.
