Comment by __loam
2 years ago
I would love to say I shouldn't have an opinion on this. Unfortunately my government is giving our tax dollars to one side so it can bomb the other. If they would prefer I didn't have an opinion, maybe they can stop taking our money to buy bombs.
Yeah, I like your thinking. It's tricky. Inextricable government-citizen stuff. I'm more of a global citizen right now, I don't really feel that. But I get it. Must be tough. Democracy...whaddayagonnado?
I'm assuming you're American and on this basis, it's safe to point out this expenditure is primarily defensive, funding the iron dome. You don't hear about the iron dome in the news much as it would get boring reading day in, day out of the same defences against "exploratory" missiles fired into Israel. These defensive missiles are really expensive.
One issue with that is we only provide a small portion of their military budget and use a lot of that influence to persuade them to treat the Palestinians better.