Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak warned that the alternative to a two-state is a one-state solution, inevitably heralding either full-fledged apartheid (as in the West Bank) or because of demographics, the eventual end of a Jewish majority.

But I empathize with the predicament of self-declared Israel "supporters" in Canada: having voted with their feet against the core principle of Zionism (Aliyah, or emigration to Israel) they try to compensate by turning into jingoistic cheerleaders for Israel's most extremist polices.

But they get no relief: criticized here for defending the indefensible, they are also sneered at in Israel for turning their backs on Zionism's raison d'être.  In the words of Jewish theologian Marc Ellis, hence the "strained arguments, the twisted logic, the shrill voices."