Bradley Burston, writing in Haaretz, shows how Israel is marginalising its true friends by saying, in effect, that there is no place for the likes of J Street, Jews who oppose the occupation, or Jews who believe that non-Orthodox Judaism is valid and important.

But the new self-hating Jew may yet be in for a surprise. There's another generation of Jews coming up. One which has grown tired of the aging explanations for an Israel which lives for, and dies as a result of, occupation. "We love Israel unconditionally," J Street student leaders said in a recent essay.

"We have a moral commitment to a national home in which Jews can determine our own political destiny. We have a religious and cultural connection to that home. We do not, however, support Israel’s policies unconditionally. That is not true love."

Israel, with the self-hating right in the lead, can no longer afford to make war on its own. Not now. It is one war Israel cannot afford to win.

If this continues, it's basically the end of Zionism and the beginning of the end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.