I hear you man. I believe new US equipment such as M1A2 is way out of the range of even well-funded armies in the Middle East.
That is why they are still looking at equipment like refurbished, re-engined, heavily modernized and re-armed older surplus US Tanks like the M60's which still have about twenty years of life left in them, so upgrading makes sense.There are some 5000 of these surplus M60's available worldwide. Egypt has over a thousand later version M1 Abrams (produced there), but they have heavily upgraded their M60's ('numbers' sacrificial tank force pushed out front as opposed to the super sophisticated Abrams which are saved for last). Egypt had 1700 M60's at one time.
This was Turkey's upgraded M60 version
and this below is what Leonardo was offering as a refurbished version M60A3, in 2017. There are plenty of older stock M60's available to do this, and the refurbished item is easily comparable to 3rd generation tanks. Much better than our Durjoy and Pakistan's Al-Zarrar too - if I may dare to say so... The refurbished M60 has true Shooting-on-the-move capability.
The point is that real value of 'numbers' tanks lies not in the latest and greatest which may be too expensive (and unproven to boot), but maybe one generation older from surplus stock but with economically upgraded packages such as new turrets, ERA packages, Power train, Running Gear, Night Scope, Thermal Imagers and digital fire control stations etc.
No one (least of all me) is advocating buying upgraded M60's. But upgrading an M60 may be better than upgrading Type 59's and we have to see WHAT modern capabilities we get with the upgrades and how they meet our mission objectives and capability checklists. Which has to be balanced with how many MORE we are getting, and if THAT is a plus.