Israel To Be Exempt From Foreign Aid Cuts http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/09/israel-to-be-exempt-from-foreign-aid-cuts/

…There is only one foreign aid program that is not on the chopping block — not Obama’s, and not House Republicans or Senate Democrats. And it happens to be the largest single foreign assistance program of them all: $3.5 billion in aid to Israel…

… there is hardly another program in the entire U.S. budget that is deemed off-limits for budget cutters. Not aid to pregnant women and children here at home, not assistance to the unemployed, not clean air and water programs, not Social Security and Medicare, not cancer research… Everything is up for cuts either by the cut-and-slash super committee or through “sequestration”…

it does not matter who or what does the cutting: Aid to Israel is always exempt. And that is because preserving that particular aid package is AIPAC’s top priority. Anyone suggesting cutting aid to Israel by even a dollar will be punished by AIPAC-directed donors.

[U.S. FINANCIAL AID TO ISRAEL IS ILLEGAL http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/us-financial-aid-to-israel-is-illegal/ American military aid to Israel has been illegal ever since the Symington Amendment of 1976 (34 years now) http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/cutting-aid-to-israel-is-quickly-becoming-conventional-wisdom.html