Deep US-Israel alignment followed, rather than caused, Soviet gains in Arab states

Evidence

It is sometimes forgotten nowadays that the closer American strategic relationship with Israel was a con­ sequence, not a cause, of Soviet successes in the Arab world. Before that, Amer­ ican policy towards Israel had been cautious, and American support limited— far less, for example, than that of the Soviet Union in the early years and later of France, whose planes and weaponry made possible the Israeli victory in the Six Day War. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1678

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the common Arab-world narrative that US backing of Israel precedes and drives anti-US feeling — corroborates structural Cold War explanations of the alliance.
• QUESTION: How does this causal claim stand against scholarship tying post-1967 US-Israel closeness to domestic politics or to Israel as strategic asset independent of Soviet rivalry?