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Inflammatory And Conciliatory Rhetoric In The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis Of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events, Oliver R. Witte
Inflammatory And Conciliatory Rhetoric In The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis Of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events, Oliver R. Witte
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This study focuses on contrasting responses to two highly provocative acts from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Ariel Sharon's controversial visit to the Temple Mount in February 2000, and a Palestinian terrorist cell's suicide bombing of a nightclub in Tel Aviv in 2005. Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in 2000 led to the second intifada, the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the conflict's recent history. However, what followed the suicide attack in Tel Aviv in 2005 were several weeks of restraint from both sides. This study positions media texts as antecedents and consequents to these two key focal points in history …