I have heard this analysis from social workers working on domestic violence. Every time government policies require Israelis to impose more violence on Palestinians, that violence spills over into Israeli homes. It's not visible but it's a scary side effect.

There is no really great place to be queer, because homophobia is part of a system of enforcing conformity and hierarchy, in particular inequality for women. In industrialized, modern societies and in traditional societies in transition, every stride forward for the right of the individual to make their own choices is met with a reimposition of boundaries and definitions, sometimes enforced with violence.

I just don't know what happens to Israeli society if all the yefei nefesh, bleeding heart types make yeridah. Yet I'm sitting comfortably in one of the few states in the US with gay marriage, smug in my inclusive little queer-friendly observant Jewish community, where we can all be Jewish however the hell we want. It's your life and you have to decide where you can live safely and freely. I'm not supporting a quietist position or something, I just didn't choose to do what at least two of my college classmates did, make aliyah in order to work for human rights and justice there. Even though it makes me incredibly happy and proud that you are there, and believe in these things and do them--you're not a human sacrifice.