These attempts to play geopolitical Pin the Tail on the Donkey and reduce complexities to simplicity are by definition banal and replicating the internal logic of antisemitism.
On the one hand, yes, after 1967 the US found use for Israel as a strategic regional partner (alongside Saudi Arabia and Shah-era Iran) in creating a pincer to combat secular Arab nationalist currents (Nasserism, Baathism, et al).
But likewise, prior to this, the US was extremely cool on Israel, and particularly the GOP, owing to Eisenhower's rejection of the Suez invasion of 1956.
This columnist, and apparently author, are extremely selective with the facts. Until the later 1970s, the forces which have embraced Christian Zionism (Evangelical Protestants of varying stripes) were distinctly and doctrinally APOLITICAL, they thought to politicize their faith was blasphemous. These groups only really changed on that front in order to mobilize around preventing passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and then electing Reagan (which itself really had to do with Jimmy Carter's Dept of Education cracking down on continued segregation in education). The only really political right wing Church was Catholicism, and they were also very cool towards Zionism because of fraternal relations with various Oriental Orthodox Rite and Roman Rite polities that had Palestinian congregations, instead they had to be morally blackmailed with charges of antisemitism in order to gain approval of Israel.
Truman's recognition of Israel was a matter of interest convergence, the US and Ben Gurion's section of the Zionist movement both had a shared interest in Mapai gaining power as opposed to a more Soviet-friendly Knesset (the Soviets sent the Israelis weapons during the Nakba, regrettably). How much of this was an attempt to appease the liberal Jewish component of the New Deal coalition is debatable but also worthy of consideration, there was a lot of acclamation for the Northern component of the New Deal coalition and the New York Labor Party (a fusion system party) had soothed many consciences that might otherwise have been scandalized by pulling a lever for the Catholic Tammany machine.
All of these are simple components of a much larger and complex matter that cannot be simplified down a "Jewish lobby" or "American military-industrial complex." Israel used to be a majority-liberal cause in the US, with social democrats trying to suggest the kibbutz and the Israeli welfare state as a viable alternative Great Socialist Motherland.
Now it is increasingly becoming an embarrassment for liberals, partially owing to the publicity of IDF brutality (caused in no small part by internet video news breaking the old mainstream media blockade) and partially because of Netanyahu's unambiguous and shamelessly racist contempt of Obama (he would never have dared try giving an address to a joint session of Congress during the Clinton or Dubya administrations like that). Furthermore, the intransigence of the Israelis regarding settlement expansion and other matters is an annoyance for the American officials, Obama was honestly interested in normalized relations with Iran based on a neoliberal capitalist market relations system and Netanyahu/Trump's scuttling of the deal was a nuisance. US imperialism would be completely fine with a Middle East under dollar domination with a free market uniting the region, governed by collaborators like Mubarak or al-Sisi, and Israel has begun to become a stumbling block rather than an asset in that goal.