If this does not happen, what hope is there for peace?

The Vatican also recognised Nazi Germany.
The German people had brought the Nazis to power by democratic means.
Mr President Abbas, who was elected for a four year term in his autonomous territory, is now enjoying his twelfth year in power.
Hamas was elected in free elections in order to execute its Charter objective of committing genocide against the Jewish People.
Many people with ulterior motives attach words like “democracy”, “freedom”, “human rights, “justice,” “legal,” etc” to their propaganda pronouncements.
They fool only the fools and the knaves.

With respect – you moved the discussion away from “Palestine” and Israel with this comment:

“Many older type Christians ( not Protestants) have lived in West Asia (the so called Middle East) and North Africa for 2000 years and a significant percentage make up part of the population of Israel (2%), Palestinian (2%), Lebanese (30%), Syrian (10%), Jordan (4%), Iraqi (5%), Egypt (11%) and Turkish (1%).”

You seemed to be painting a bland and idyllic life for Christians living in the region.

I sought to address your position and show that life is not too good for many people who not Muslim.

By the way life is not too good for many who are Muslim.

Do you agree?

Does Palestine or Israel have snakes or are they like Ireland with no snakes.

Yes I have heard about the Yazidis, Zoroastrians and Kurds but what has that got to do with Palestine and Israel other than they being nearby in Iraq etc.

David – funny, when I spell checked Yazidis I got Yiddish.

Currently Jordan has over 1 million Syrian refugee too as have Lebanon and Turkey as well as Europe.

Don’t try and rewrite history. Jordan was set up by the UN at about the same time as Palestine was partitioned into to two states however the states were a patchwork of Hebrew (Jewish) and Palestinian (Christian & Muslim) localities and nearby unworkable as cohesive states.

Adrian

Heard of the Yazidis?

“Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday.

Such a designation, rare under international law, would mark the first recognized genocide carried out by non-state actors, rather than a state or paramilitaries acting on its behalf.

The U.N. report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said the Islamist militants had been systematically rounding up Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, seeking to “erase their identity” in a campaign that met the definition of the crime as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention.

“The genocide of the Yazidis is ongoing,” it said.

The 40-page report, entitled “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis”, sets out a legal analysis of Islamic State’s intent to wipe out the Kurdish-speaking group, whom the Sunni Muslim Arab militants view as infidels.

The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.

“The finding of genocide must trigger much more assertive action at the political level, including at the (U.N.) Security Council,” Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the commission of inquiry, told a news briefing.

“Almost two years since the attack on Mount Sinjar, nothing has been done to save those people,” he said, referring to the heart of the Yazidi region in northern Iraq stormed by Islamic State in August 2014.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-yazidi-idUSKCN0Z20WR

Such is life under Islamic occupation…

And 70 States meet in Paris to discuss the creation of a 22nd Arab State . ..

Go figure.