They bought a Caribbean island to start their own country
What a country really needs is people (lots of them) with some kind of shared cultural identity and commitment to glue them together. A people is more important than a territory. These folks are focusing on the wrong problem.<p>Speculative future: there are a number of Hasidic&#x2F;Haredi enclaves close to New York City, such as Kiryas Joel, Monsey, Kaser, New Square, Lakewood. These communities have very high birth rates, and low attrition rates (upwards of 90% of the community&#x27;s children are retained in their faith community as adults) – Kiryas Joel&#x27;s population is only around 30,000 now, but is growing by about 50% a decade. By sometime next century, there could be many millions of ultra-Orthodox Jews living in that area.<p>It seems plausible this could lead to ethnic conflict – we are already seeing some signs of that, if you look at situations such as the East Ramapo Central School District – which might produce some kind of secessionist movement. There has already been a secession at the level of local government – Kiryas Joel seceding from the town of Monroe to form the new town of Palm Tree, which was supported by the non-Hasidic&#x2F;Haredi residents too (both non-Jews and mainstream Jews), who were pleased to regain control of their political institutions through the removal of the ultra-Orthodox voting blocs – so, secessions at higher levels of government might one day also be supported by both sides.<p>Possibly, we&#x27;ll see further secessions&#x2F;incorporations at the village&#x2F;town level, followed by secession of one or more Hasidic&#x2F;Haredi-majority counties, followed by an attempt by those counties to form their own state, followed at last by the secession of that state from the US. While the idea of a successful secessionist movement from the US may seem implausible now, a century of American decline may make it much more plausible. Maybe, come next century, Israel will no longer be the world&#x27;s only Jewish state.