Read the budget list more carefully. "Foreign Military Financing" has an exact meaning.

No one is pretending that Israel is helping flood victims with this money. Frankly, most of it is turned right around and spent in the U.S. on weapons and other things, so if you want to be honest about it from a libertarian standpoint, it's pretty much defense pork filtered through the Middle East. And no, I'm not that happy about it.

I was just pointing out that a lot of cash is going into the coffers of the Palestinian leadership as well. Europe also dumps a hefty load of money into those coffers above and beyond this. This article says about $800 million a year. We pretty much know down to the dollar what Israel spends our money on. Where is the PLO money ending up? The same article says about 40 percent of it is lost to corruption.