In today's JC there is a letter from me in response to this column last week:
http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/72978/matthew-gould-righ...
My letter was shortened - here's the full version as submitted:
Shimon Cohen thinks that Matthew Gould’s recent comments on Israeli Channel 10 TV are a “straightforward statement of the obvious”. The truth is that they are plain wrong. Anyone who believes that “there has been an erosion of popular support” for Israel in Britain is monitoring only the BBC, the Guardian and the London chattering classes. Opinion polls tell us that the overwhelming majority in Britain is not interested in the Middle East and that of those people that are, significantly more blame Israel’s enemies for the continuing stalemate than blame Israel (perhaps they are mindful that every day Israel faces the same forces bent on her destruction as those who struck in London on 7th July 2005).
