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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 US 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.

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