以色列的强硬派曾把“反恐战争”和伊拉克战争当作他们自己的战争，他们曾支持布什对伊朗近乎宣战的言论和孤立伊朗的立场，并把新保守主义者视为自己的思想同类，尤其是他们和新保守派具有同样的信念，即军事干预是一种合法且有效的实现政治变革的方式。
Israeli hardliners saw the “war on terror” and the war in Iraq as their wars, supported Bush’s war-like rhetoric and isolation of Iran, and considered the neo-conservatives their ideological kin. In particular, they shared the neo-cons’ conviction that military intervention is a legitimate and effective way of achieving political change.