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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. You can trace the fault lines of mainstream politics by

identifying where people stand on Palestine. Palestine matters first and foremost, of course, because Palestinian liberation

and putting an end to Israeli atrocities matter. But Palestine also offers an unparalleled window

into the politics of U.S. foreign policy, and the state of geopolitics as a whole,

because it is a critical node of both empire and of a reactionary regional alliance,

linking the Gulf states, Egypt, and Israel.

Any Democrat who refuses to break with U.S. Orthodoxy on Israel is guaranteed to serve the Orthodox

Foreign Policy Order and destined to abide by the dictates of the national security state

inside the Beltway blob. Notice that establishment liberals don't want the Democratic primary to focus on foreign policy.

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