Max Boot identifies support for Israel as a core tenet of neoconservatism.

Evidence

In a Wall Street Journal piece titled “What the Heck Is a ‘Neocon’?,” leading neocon Max Boot stated unequivocally that “support for Israel” has been and remains a “key tenet of neoconservatism.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 386

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to [385] which ties neocon Islamism-as-enemy framing to Likud-style Zionism, completing the feedback loop the reader is mapping.