In fact new strings are already attached as to how and where it can be “spent”
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=244638&Sn=WORL&IssueID=31347
It certainly seems to be Obama’s modus operandi: control the money and use it to jerk people around to his way of thinking. Limiting aid money to “defense” is a truly evil tactic intended to keep Israel from even discerning the threats against it, much less preparing for it.