“The watershed line seems to have been crossed. The two-state solution is no more. No Palestinian state will exist here beside the State of Israel”.
The words of Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israel's Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israe], pointed out the creation of a geography, some of which includes the California-like 'Wine Route' in the West Bank.
This has created a Jewish settlement belt that the burgeoning Jewish settler population, currently more than four hundred thousand, will be impossible to evacuate and without a separate Palestinian state, the natural, higher demographic increase of the adjacent Muslims will ultimately result in the creation of a Muslim state in place of Israel.
What is fascinating to me is that the sorts of scenery one would expect to find in California Wine Country are also being created by the disproportionately influential American Jewish expatriate settlers of the West Bank. As California's reliance on Latino labor to toil in it's vineyards has resulted in last month's consensus declaration by demographers that California has a Latino majority, so the similar process is being foreseen by one of Israel's leading M.E. analysts.
Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography, Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work, Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area which will be having High Holiday Services this year. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih
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