“I always hear that asked — how much has our alliance with Israel cost us?”
Well then why not answer it instead of giving us some diversionary non-sequiter?
I did, and the answer is: it hasn't cost us nearly as much as our alliances with England and France cost us in the two World Wars.
Hardly a non-sequiter to point out that whatever the cost of our alliance with Israel, it absolutely shrinks to insignificance when put in the context of what our other alliances have cost us.