Posted on 07/21/2017 6:43:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Representatives of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac Christian political parties have produced a position paper which outlines their desire to establish self-governance.
In the very land from which Christianity was born, the Faithful have suffered terrible, unspeakable oppression, blatant discrimination, torture and holy martyrdom at the hands of those who reject peace and love.
Now, that the failed “ISIL” is in rapid retreat, having unleashed untold suffering on the region and deaths over the past three-years, plans are in the work to keep the remainder of Christians in the region safe from more unsolicited, gratuitous violence.
A high-level European Parliament meeting in Brussels, entitled “A Future for Christians in Iraq” discussed the possibility of offering the remnant of Christians who have withstood one of the worst threats to the Faith's existence since its inception.
Representatives of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac Christian political parties produced a position paper which outlines their desire to establish self-governance.
On January 21, 2014, the Iraq Council of Ministers approved a plan to establish three new provinces in Iraq. One province would be in Fallujah, in central Iraq; a second would be in north Iraq, in Tuz Khormato; the third would also be in north Iraq, in the Nineveh Plain. This last region would be a safe haven for persecuted minorities including Christians.
A few months after this meeting, Islamic terrorist organization “ISIS” invaded Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city claiming it as the capital of their new capital in the misguided attempt at reviving a “caliphate” which had been disbanded in the early part of the 20th century by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the President and Founder of the modern Turkish state. Atatürk is also known for engineering and/or encouraging the Armenian Genocide which slaughtered two million Christians, including a great number of Catholics. Historians label this......
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Christians would not do well in Iraq. They would do better within an independent Kurdish state.
They will have to be armed and trained. Would Russia defend them? Can’t really believe they’d have anything in common with the beheaders.
Trump talked of a safe zone. Even Biden advocated an independent Kurdistan. Good for him.
Call it Lebanon.
How about a defensible space around Bethlehem?
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