But you are okay with the fact that we subsidize in much greater amounts, in blood as well as treasure, the far richer than Israel, Europe?
Of course those numbers are concealed in the DEFENSE budget not as foreign aide.
http://www.issues.org/21.4/pena.html
Our subsidies of European defense are put to good use by the all encompassing European social welfare system.
I agree with your link that we would be able to cut back on defense spending by insisting Europe take full resposibility for their own defense and we should do just that, but our stationing of troops over there is more for our own strategic military interests than for Europe's benefit, so I wouldn't characterize it as a subsidy in the strict sense of the word. We do it to project our power and to keep our troops more rapidly deployable to protect our interests in that part of the world.