Thus, the roots of neocon hard-line Zionism lie less in its Jewish adherents’ ethnic identity and more in their politics and in a particular worldview that sees Israel as instrumental in advancing American 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. As Dorien notes, most “unipolarist leaders were Jewish neoconservatives who took for granted that a militantly pro-Israel policy was in America’s interest. Wolfowitz, Perle, Podhoretz, Krauthammer, [Ben] Wattenberg, [Joshua] Muravchik, both Kristols, Kagan, Boot, and Kaplan fit that description.” Yet this position was also held by prominent non-Jews such as Jeane Kirkpatrick, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, James Woolsey, Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Linda Chavez, and others.

XREF: Challenges the common assumption that neocon support for Israel stems from Jewish identity; connects to debates about the ethno-religious versus ideological basis of foreign policy.

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