The poster is correct about middle easterners intolerance of other religions. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The combined techniques allowed the researchers to gather high quality genomic information from 44 ancient Near Easterners who lived between 14,000 and 3,400 years ago: hunter - gatherers from before the invention of farming, the first farmers themselves and their successors. (sciencedaily.com)
There may also have been a migration of Near Easterners into Europe roughly 14,000 years ago, detected for the first time by aDNA analysis in 2016. (discovermagazine.com)