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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If your wish to change things is the only thing that makes you want to go back, be honest with yourself, do you actually have the ability to change anything?

Probably not

Do you want to try to change anything if you did have the ability?

If not, and you don't plan on living there. then it just comes down to whether citizenship has some kind of positive for you like being able to freely travel or something like that.