Re your OP Dave, if there was a fundraiser for defence spending I would not give.
Likewise for road repairs, refuse collection or railway investment.

I think those things vitally important and underfunded, but should be funded from taxation like defence spending.

Do you think defence is one area of spending that is overfunded?
What current capabilities could we dispense with?
Should we be influenced in any way by Russia steadily increasing expenditure on armaments, or is that just silly?

Re Israel, Jim always tries to raise that subject in a thread if he possibly can.