The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the issue of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories have not been resolved since the 1940s. Despite efforts for reconciliation, the Israelis and Palestinians are yet to reach a final peace agreement. A wide variety of views and opinions have been express...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Latiff@Bapoo, Lili Suriani, Majelan, Syareen Izzaty
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (IDOSI) 2014
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	iium-500662018-01-04T03:22:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50066/ The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation Abdul Latiff@Bapoo, Lili Suriani Majelan, Syareen Izzaty PE English The Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the issue of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories have not been resolved since the 1940s. Despite efforts for reconciliation, the Israelis and Palestinians are yet to reach a final peace agreement. A wide variety of views and opinions have been expressed on the issue but it remains a question of how both Palestinian and Israeli societies have communicated on it. This paper analyzed the language discourse of 10 texts-2 speeches by the countries’ political leaders, 4 online newspaper articles and 4 online articles written by Palestinian and Israeli writers. A comparison was then made on the discourses used by both parties. The study found that similar forms of racial discourse to justify their feelings of prejudice of each other were used in political speeches and online texts. While the discourse of power was obvious in the political speeches, the discourse of prejudice was amplified in the online newspapers and articles. International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (IDOSI) 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50066/1/The_Palestinian-Isreali_Conflict.pdf Abdul Latiff@Bapoo, Lili Suriani and Majelan, Syareen Izzaty (2014) The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research (Language for Communication and Learning), 20 (14). pp. 97-101. ISSN 1999-8147(O), 1990-9233 (P) http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr20(lcl)14.htm 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2014.20.lcl.214
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description	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the issue of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories have not been resolved since the 1940s. Despite efforts for reconciliation, the Israelis and Palestinians are yet to reach a final peace agreement. A wide variety of views and opinions have been expressed on the issue but it remains a question of how both Palestinian and Israeli societies have communicated on it. This paper analyzed the language discourse of 10 texts-2 speeches by the countries’ political leaders, 4 online newspaper articles and 4 online articles written by Palestinian and Israeli writers. A comparison was then made on the discourses used by both parties. The study found that similar forms of racial discourse to justify their feelings of prejudice of each other were used in political speeches and online texts. While the discourse of power was obvious in the political speeches, the discourse of prejudice was amplified in the online newspapers and articles.
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author	Abdul Latiff@Bapoo, Lili Suriani Majelan, Syareen Izzaty
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title	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
title_short	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
title_full	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
title_fullStr	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
title_full_unstemmed	The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
title_sort	palestinian-israeli conflict: a comparative analysis on the language of occupation
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