A Gay Israeli Soldier Asks Why His Country Has ‘Abandoned’ Him

Last week, a day after commemorating LGBT Rights Day, Israel's ruling coalition shot down a package of bills meant to expand the rights and protections of the LGBT community.

Introduced by the political opposition to Knesset (Israel’s parliament), and spurred on by the violent attack at Jersusalem’s Gay Pride Parade over the summer, which left a 16-year-old girl dead, the proposed legislation would have introduced secular civil unions, a ban on conversion therapy, and a provision that would have treated the partners and children of gay soldiers on equal terms as their heterosexual counterparts, out.com reports.

For Omer Nahmany, the failure of Netanyahu, who had the day before proclaimed “all men are created equal,” to rally his government to support such basic human rights was an egregious insult. Taking to Facebook, he penned an impassioned note, which has since been translated by Attitude Magazine.