Palestinian Framing in English Written Israeli Media after Oslo and During the Second Intifada. Case Study: Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth and the Jerusalem Post رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This research accounts for the findings of qualitative and quantitative content and framing analysis of 60 articles in total reporting about Palestinians in Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, and The Jerusalem Post after Oslo and during the Second Intifada. This work is also concerned with the location of the Palestinian‘s framing in Israeli media before and after Oslo and during the Second Intifada based on Galtung‘s ‗violence‘ and ‗peace‘ theory. Palestinians were divided into three groups, which are Palestinian leadership, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinians in Israel. Overall, the findings indicate that Oslo failed to achieve ‗peace frames‘ for the Palestinians in the analyzed newspapers and that Israeli media remained as a ‗war media‘ after Oslo. The results show that the frequency of appearance and personalization increased for the Palestinian leadership. However, their appearances were in negative frames. The other Palestinian groups remained anonymous for the most part, and their framing became worse after Oslo. Moreover, the Outbreak of the second Intifada allowed Israeli media to put the Palestinian leadership under the frame of traitors of peace and that it used Oslo to return to Palestine and destroy Israel. V Palestinian as a whole were included under similar frames and framing mechanisms of the Palestinian leadership. However, Palestinians in Israel remained labeled as ‗Arabs‘ in terms of terminology while connected to the other Palestinians in their context. Haaretz was the most balanced in terms of personalization for the Palestinian leadership and the frequency of appearances for the three Palestinian groups. However, those differences are considered minor since the remaining framing dimensions and frames are similar to the other two newspapers.