Should I permanently leave Israel?

ashkenaziisraeli@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 264 points –

I'm not sure if this is the right community for this question, but it says "no stupid question" so here goes. I'm an Israeli who now lives in the US, but I am considering permanently residing in the US or elsewhere (perhaps somewhere in Europe or Canada) because I've become kinda disillusioned with Israel for a variety of reasons (the war in Gaza being one of them, the erosion of democracy by Likud being another, and etc) but is that cowardly to leave? Should I go back and try to change society or should I just leave for good? Thanks for your time.

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Yeah, this isn't something that any of us can decide for you. And any views will be clouded by how people think on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Ironically I'm firmly in the middle on the conflict compared to a lot of what I've seen from the online left, but compared to most israeli policymakers, I am far left. It's weird.

To be fair, the current Israeli government has far-right members in it, so a centrist would look far-left in comparison!

Yeah I'm just center-left, but that's "far left" or even "extreme" left in the Israeli politics now..