This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, the Middle East is on fire yet again.

As the UN warns the conflict could turn into full-scale war.

What's behind this eruption?

And what is going to put the configuration out?

I will talk to Martin Indik and Rashid Khalidi.

And Amal Kloony is on a quest to bring ISIS to justice for genocide.

But she says the US government is not interested enough.

They deserve better than the response that they're getting.

I'll have an exclusive interview with Clooney and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad.

But first, here's my take.

The Republican Party's decision in effect to excommunicate Liz Cheney is a watershed event.

It marks the final transformation of the party from an ideologically driven enterprise to one that is tribal,

marked less by ideas and more by group loyalty.

Let's compare the voting records of Liz Cheney to the woman who replaced her as chair of the House Republican Conference, Elise Stefaniq.

The American Conservative Union gives Cheney a lifetime score of 78 out of 100 for her consistent conservatism.

Stefaniq gets a 44, which is one of the lowest scores for our House Republican these days.

Cheney reliably voted for Trump's policies, while Stefaniq was one of only 12 House Republicans to vote against the former President's signature legislation, the 2017 tax cut.

But Stefaniq has pledged field to Trump and his big lie about fraud in the 2020 election, while Cheney will not.

And Republicans these days care more about tribal loyalty than conservative principles.

This is a big shift.

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