Mulcair has no "fixation" with Israel. I think he talks about other issues about 99.9% of the time. It's people on babble who are "fixated" on Israel as anyone reading this thread would attest! Take a long hard look at yourselves people. Mulcair has had an illustrious political career in federal and provincial politics for the past 16 years - yet when someone tries to start a thread about his strengths and weaknesses as a potential NDP leader - it quickly degenerates into 150-odd posts where people try to read between the lines about two or three instances where he said something about the Middle East - as if that was the one and only issue that mattered in Canadian politics and as if there weas nothing else about him worthy of debate or discussion.
If you want to know why the "left" in Canada is often so marginalized its because there seems to be about a thousand times more "zest" for debating whether or not to use the word "apartheid" to describve Israel than there on any issue that actually affects ther day to day lives of vulnerable people in Canada!