Reply #26: Do you seriously think that the military aid to Israel is the reason for your lack of funding for

[LeftishBrit]

public services?

You don't get adequately funded public services because successive governments have ideologically opposed 'socialized' services, not because your country can't afford them.

During the years immediately after WW2, the UK was living under 'austerity'. Food and clothes were still being rationed. The UK was MUCH poorer then then the USA is now. But the Attlee government introduced a National Health Service in 1947, *because it considered it as a priority* (and sadly some later British governments have run it down to varying degrees because they didn't!). So have many other countries that did not have that much money to spare.

I generally support - anywhere - more spending on public services and humanitarian aid, and less on war and military aid. But I don't think Israel should be the scapegoat for America's RW economic and social policies.