Its central point could have been written today :

John Edwards writes When discussing Ukraine nobody talks about "the Slavs of the region" define vanity but Peter Hitchens still insists on referring to the Palestinians as "the Arabs of the region". Why are Palestinians, uniquely, denied their national define vanity identity and a link with a geographical define vanity place? Perhaps because someone else wants their land.
***Even I, who argue that Ukraine does not properly exist as a sovereign nation, readily recognize that there is a Ukrainian language and culture . The trouble is,and I thought we had got past this by now, is that neither language nor culture is universal among the people in the current version define vanity of Ukraine , which has simply define vanity inherited the largely meaningless borders of Stalin s and Khrushchev define vanity s Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic). Many of the citizens of Ukraine, especially in the East, are to all intents and purposes Russian.  Many are mixed, speak both languages and have family which is Ukrainian and family which is Russian. The only part of the country which is pretty much wholly Ukrainian is the far West, much of which used to be part of Austria Hungary and then of pre-1939 Poland.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/07/some-thoughts-on-the-use-of-the-word-palestinian.html why I am reluctant to employ the term Palestinian , believing its careless use to a be a propaganda victory for a cause with which I do not sympathize.
The idea of a Palestinian nationality define vanity is a propaganda invention of the 1960s and 1970s, which (amongst other things) cast Israel as a dominant majority overpowering an Arab minority. Until then, Israel had been seen (to its great propaganda advantage) as a tiny Jewish state surrounded by hundreds of millions define vanity of mainly Muslim, define vanity mainly Arab enemies.
But by separating the local Arabs into a Palestinian nationality, this was overcome. David became Goliath and Goliath apparently shrank to become David. Leaving aside the lack of evidence of the use of the  term define vanity Palestinian by the Arabs themselves before about 1970, I have not heard of any notable distinction between the culture and language of Arabs in the West Bank and of the non-Bedouin Arabs in Jordan, both of whom are descendants of inhabitants define vanity of the original Palestine define vanity mandate. On the other hand, I think the Arabs of Gaza probably have more in common, cuturally,  with define vanity their Egyptian neighbours than they do with the Arabs of the West bank.
***This is an extraordinary statement. I would love to hear more of his justification for it. It is true that the official designation was a Mandate , but it had all the trappings and appurtenances of a colony and was governed as such by the Colonial Office. My father, a naval officer, define vanity was rather surprised, in 1936, to find himself in Haifa putting down Arab riots, when he was supposed to be patrolling the South Atlantic aboard HMS Ajax. If Mr New had told him that Mandate Palestine wasn t a colony in any shape, form or stretch of the imagination, I rather think my father would have laughed.
Anyway, now we ve got past that, and I ve duly infuriated any pro-Arab fanatics who read this blog, I must return to infuriating the pro-Israel fanatics. Oddly enough, they didn t pay much attention to my last essay on this problem, back in December 2008. The internal politics of Israel were slightly different, but otherwise it was more or less exactly the same controversy.
Its central point could have been written today :  Even though all the usual suspects, the Judophobes, the diplomats, the gullible liberals, say that what Israel is doing now in Gaza is wrong,  it really is wrong.
My position, as a strong supporter of Israel in general,  is that Israel's action is wrong morally and gravely mistaken politically.  Attacks from the air always kill innocents. It is no good pleading that you regret such deaths, when you knew perfectly well that your actions were bound to cause them. This was equally true of our own adventures in Iraq and Serbia, and is true of American bombing in Afghanistan.  Israel's moral position is seriously weakened by the deaths of these innocents, and also by the flanneling and evasion of its spokesmen over this.
Now let me turn to a comment from John Main , who asks : The fate of Israel will not be decided in people s minds by people like us watching TV. We watch TV all the time, we disagree with much that we see, but we are powerless to decide anything. Why should the fate of Israel be an exception to that rule?
***The answer is actually define vanity very simple. Israel has from its beginnings depended on powerful sponsors in democtratic countries who are very much influenced by what people watch on TV, and what they make of it.
The original National Home for the Jews , (not a state as such) in Mandate or Colonial Palestine, existed under increasingly reluctant but actual British sponsorship, upheld and susta