In a world where logic and sensibility prevailed, Prime Minister Mark Carney would reverse his reckless plan to recognize a Palestinian state. But in the Middle East, where moral compasses seem to spin to the side of terror, the expectation that Canada might stand firmly with the righteous is the stuff of daydreams about the good old days.

We thought the MS St. Louis moment when Canada turned its back on Jews fleeing terror was over. Those who believe that lobbying alone can alter the course of our foreign policy ignore the reality: Canada’s international positions are increasingly dictated by shifting national demographics (as they had then by an antisemitic Canada) and by a leader who looks more to Europe than to our greatest ally and trading partner, the United States.

For Carney, it

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