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True or false misses the point. I have just told you I will reject any logic that makes God look hard-hearted and uncaring. You propose a view that does that. Obviously, since God is not so, your analysis of Tyre versus Chorazin is flawed. God consigning to hell those who have had no chance to freely choose Him is unfair and hard-hearted. God allowing everyone a chance to choose Him and avoid hell upholds the view that God is fair and caring. You err in allowing your own particular logic to dictate your understanding of God. God MUST be righteous (therefore, fair) and God MUST be loving (therefore, caring.)

I'm not asking you to review "my" analysis of Matthew 11.

I'm simply asking that you answer one question about Matthew 11.

Matthew 11: 20 - 27 -- Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you." At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure." All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

God foreknew Tyre and Sidon's free choice NOT TO REPENT in the case of His non-performance of such Miracles; AND
God foreknew Tyre and Sidon's free choice TO REPENT in the case of His performance of such Miracles; AND
God CHOSE not to perform these Miracles in Tyre and Sidon, a choice which had as its perfectly foreknown result the NON-Repentance of Tyre and Sidon, just as He foreknew.
True, or False?

I submit that you know that the only possible Biblical answer to this question is, "True".

And I further submit that you understand Christ's words on the matter... and that you hate them.

We cannot get to Heaven by worshipping a "Christ" of our own imagining. Only by worshipping Jesus as Infallible Lord shall we attain eternal glory and escape everlasting perdition.

So:

Did God foreknow that His performance of these miracles in Tyre and Sidon would result in their Repentance unto Salvation?
And did God foreknow that His Non-performance of these miracles in Tyre and Sidon would result in their Non-Repentance unto Damnation?
And did He not sovereignly Choose to Not Perform these miracles, which had as its perfectly-foreknown result their Non-Repentance unto Damnation, just as He foreknew?

The matter is the real words spoken by the real Jesus. You can either love them, or hate them. There is no middle ground.