REPRESENTATION OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN THE WESTERN MEDIA: A CORPUS ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

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Arshad Ali, Munib Ahmed, Rehana Munawar

Abstract

The primary aim of this research is to see how the western print media portrays the Palestinian
conflict. A corpus-based technique is used to analyze the articles from well-known Western
newspapers. The study examines how the Palestine issue is portrayed in articles published by the
New York Times, The Guardian, and Reuters. Nine articles from these newspapers were
combined to form a corpus of 10,256 words. Three New York Times articles were 6432 words
long, three Guardian articles were 2142 words long, and three Reuters items were 1682 words
long. The data was analyzed using Antconc software. The findings show that newspapers utilise
adjectives to promote their own agenda and portray Palestine as a non-issue. The New York
Times never mentions that Palestinians have the right to peaceful coexistence. Furthermore, the
analysis revealed the use of pro-Israel descriptors such as Israeli, Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and
Muslim in western media. According to the findings, the articles about the Palestinian issue are
subjective. In the newspapers, the innocent was portrayed as a villain and the cruel as an
innocent.

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