American foreign aid actually hurts Israel. Rand Paul’s proposal would help the Israeli economy.
As an example:
Remember the “Lavi” – an Israeli plane that would have been state of the art and able to compete for global arms sales – and made by Israeli workers. THe Americans offered “aid” to be used for buying American planes – and preserving jobs for Americans.
Consider a rifle that costs $1000 for the Israelis to make. The American model costs $2000, and is just as good. The USA comes along and offers to “give” the Israelis $1500 of foreign aid to buy rifles – as long as they buy American rifles. With this figured in, the American rifle is $500.