We are not “giving” them anything.
They are buying it with their own money.
They don’t want old 1960s built, used junk.
(Their attitude, I would have gone with the M60-120S, in their shoes. Cost half as much per tank.)
The only reason they have the T72s and T55s is because, they were either given them or salvaged them from the boneyards. so as to have something until they could buy replacements.
Two years ago, the public statements of their second ranking general indicated they were looking at M60s. That appears to have been cancelled...
Cost means less than effectiveness.