ISBN:
9781137439499
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 220 S
,
Ill., graph. Darst
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2014
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
956.9405/4
Keywords:
Gaza War, 2008-2009
;
Gaza War, 2008-2009 Press coverage
;
Operation Gegossenes Blei
;
Rezeption
;
Berichterstattung
;
Großbritannien
;
Operation Gegossenes Blei
;
Rezeption
;
Großbritannien
;
Berichterstattung
Abstract:
"In the familiar atmosphere of hue and cry, Violence and Understanding in Gaza encourages its readers to think for themselves when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the first comprehensive investigation of the British broadsheets' coverage of the armed conflict between the State of Israel and Hamas, Kaposi critiques the newspapers' output, arguing that they without exception merely replicate the black and white logic of war. He contends that the newspapers defeat their own aims about a two-state solution based on compromise. For that to happen, the British media must in future cease to write about the conflict as if it were a mythical contest between Good and Evil. Instead of asking who is innocent and who should be blamed, it should start to treat the conflict as a story of mutually painful but very real human relations. Any meaningful political-moral criticism can only start from that position"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Violence and Understanding in the Armed Conflict of Gaza -- 2. Method of the Analysis and General Characteristics of the Newspapers -- 3. Action and Death in War -- 4. Engagements with History -- 5. Engagements with Criticism -- 6. Engagements with Antisemitism -- 7. War - Purity of Arms and Souls in the Conservative Press -- 8. War - Purity of Arms and Souls in the Liberal Press -- 9. Conclusion: Beyond Good and Evil -- List of Sources -- List of References -- Appendix: List of the Newspapers' Editorials -- Index.
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