Palestinian Christians attend an Orthodox service during Easter night at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, on 23 April 2022 (AFP)

For any solution, there first must be an honest identification of the problems.

Thè fundamental problem with situation in Palestine and Israel we see today, is this:

The state of Israel, right from the start, was created with some fundamental structural problems – one, for example, is, you cannot expect to create a stable state, by removing others from their land, in a continent full of the type of people you are removing.

Imagine carving up a European country in two, to create a new country, so Arabs can move into that country from the Middle East, and displace the existing Europeans of that country.

That would be a perpetual problem, whichever part of the world that was done in.

People need to go back to the drawing board, and think again on how people from all sides can live side-by-side, again, peacefully.

Because the current structures are not working and they will, in our view, never work.

Unless people want to just carry on for the next 75 years, as they’ve been doing the past 75 years.

The often forgotten Christian minority of Palestine, are also coming under increasingly intense pressure from radical Judaist Israeli lawmakers. A recently proposed “anti-missionary” bill is Israel’s latest attempt to squeeze them out. Under the proposed legislation, Christians would face up to one year in prison for encouraging conversion to their faith – which has angered the Evangelicals in the US; usually a key ally of Israeli suppression and terrorism.