At the risk of massive thread drift, the decades long debate about what share of a budget should be allocated for defense is any nation's to decide for itself. The quibbles over percent of GDP, percent revenues ... all of concern since the public coffers anywhere only hold so much.
Whose dime is being spent here? That's what has my eyebrows raised. It isn't the Israeli taxpayer and his representative who has to make an economic tradeoff. It is our taxpayer and our reps.
I'll stow further griping on this matter.