Shalom Chaim
I am going to say something that you will disagree with. A strong point of view of this movement is that every Jew should move out of Galut and move into Eretz Yisrael. First and foremost, every Jew should learn Hebrew fluently to able to get by in Israel.
Chaim, when I visited Israel last year, I realized that the culture and mentality of Israelis was very different from my personality. I concluded that there was no way that, even if I were able to speak Hebrew fluently, that I would succeed in this land of Sabras. I was raised with a completely different mentality and culture. Furthermore, I would be leaving my family behind. Unless it were a life or death situation, I, personally, feel that it is more important to be close to my family and future wife's family, (especially if it is an excellent wonderful moral righteous family). I want to apologize to my idealistic Jewish friends that I don't feel that, at this time, it is meant for me to make any sort of Aliyah. From here, I will continue to support Israel and visit there as frequently as possible. I will learn Hebrew, Gd willing. I will teach my children, Be'ezrat H'shem, how to speak fluently and mold them, with the help of my future wife, Be'ezrat H'shem, to be more idealistic than the both of us. If it is meant to be, Gd will help us, Be'ezrat H'shem, to be in the right place at the right time.
Dr. Dan