Neocons partnered with Likud to frame the terrorist as a civilizational threat

Evidence

In a Wall Street Journal essay 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.” For the neocons, Israel is instrumental in advancing US power. If the United States was going to maintain its dominance in the Middle East, it followed that Israel, the most pro-American country in the region, had to be its key ally. This is not unique to the neocons but has been a bipartisan commitment. However, the neocons developed a relationship with their counterparts in Israel, the right-wing Likud Party, to develop the notion of the “terrorist” as a threat to democracy and civilization. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 432

For the neocons, Israel is instrumental in advancing US power. If the United States was going to maintain its dominance in the Middle East, it followed that Israel, the most pro-American country in the region, had to be its key ally. This is not unique to the neocons but has been a bipartisan commitment. However, the neocons developed a relationship with their counterparts in Israel, the right-wing Likud Party, to develop the notion of the “terrorist” as a threat to democracy and civilization. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 444

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on ch9’s claims that Likud strategists and neocons framed the terrorist as enemy of civilization. — connects to: US and Israeli conservatives jointly framed the global Arab terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 237; Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization; Neocons replaced the Soviet enemy with an Islamic civilizational threat (+7 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 432; Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 444

Broader Connections

• Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization #corroborates (1.00)
• Neoconservatives and Israel pushed Islamism as the post-Soviet enemy #corroborates (1.00)
• Neocons and Israel, not the whole establishment, first pushed Islamism as the new enemy #corroborates (0.90)
• Neocons replaced the Soviet enemy with an Islamic civilizational threat #expands (0.85)
• The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979 #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473
• Neoconservatives campaigned to replace the Soviet enemy with Islamism #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 414
• Neocons needed Islam as a unifying substitute for the USSR enemy #expands (0.80)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #corroborates (0.70)