As has been pointed out here before, losing the war is more expensive.
[IsraelTimes] Senior security officials recently requested an assessment on the cost of having an Israeli military government in Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
after the war against Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,..., with the price tag coming out to an estimated NIS 20 billion per year, according to the Ynet news site.