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Abstract
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion.
The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors focus on television news. They illustrate major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides. They combine this with extensive audience research involving hundreds of participants from the USA, Britain and Germany. It shows extraordinary differences in levels of knowledge and understanding, especially amongst young people from these countries.
Covering recent developments, including the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, this authoritative and up-to-date study will be an invaluable tool for journalists, activists and students and researchers of media studies.
'Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship and public debate'
John D.H. Downing, Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
'This superb study ... is extensive in scope, and scrupulously fair. It will be a landmark'
Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent
'A remarkable book'
Professor Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel, Université de Lille III and Paris VIII
'Just about everything that we know about Israel/Palestine comes to us from our television screens. Bad News from Israel reveals remarkable levels of ignorance about what and why things are as they are'
Professor Frank Webster, City University, London
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | viii | ||
| Final Status Map | ix | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1. Histories of the Conflict | 9 | ||
| Introduction | 9 | ||
| ZIONIST ROOTS AND THE FIRST WAVE OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION INTO PALESTINE | 10 | ||
| THEODOR HERZL AND THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL ZIONISM | 11 | ||
| THE SECOND WAVE OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION INTO PALESTINE | 13 | ||
| THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND THE BRITISH MANDATE | 14 | ||
| THE ARAB REVOLT | 19 | ||
| AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS | 25 | ||
| THE END OF THE MANDATE | 28 | ||
| THE UNITED NATIONS DEBATES THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE | 30 | ||
| THE UNOFFICIAL WAR | 32 | ||
| THE FIRST ARAB-ISRAELI WAR | 34 | ||
| POST-WAR NEGOTIATIONS: PEACE TREATIES, BORDERS AND REFUGEES | 39 | ||
| 1956: THE SUEZ CONFLICT | 43 | ||
| 1967: THE SIX DAY WAR | 45 | ||
| RESOLUTION 242 AND THE WAR OF ATTRITION | 51 | ||
| SETTLEMENT BUILDING, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND THE OCCUPATION | 52 | ||
| MILITARY OCCUPATION/ADMINISTRATION | 58 | ||
| NATIONALISM AND THE RISE OF THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS | 59 | ||
| 1973: THE OCTOBER WAR /THE YOM KIPPUR WAR | 63 | ||
| CONFLICT IN LEBANON | 64 | ||
| DIPLOMACY AND THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS | 68 | ||
| 1982: THE INVASION OF LEBANON | 71 | ||
| 1987: THE FIRST INTIFADA | 77 | ||
| THE BEGINNING OF THE OSLO PROCESS | 84 | ||
| THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES | 85 | ||
| THE CAIRO AGREEMENT, OSLO II AND THE ISRAEL–JORDAN PEACE TREATY | 89 | ||
| THE NETANYAHU ADMINISTRATION | 93 | ||
| THE BARAK ADMINISTRATION | 98 | ||
| THE CAMP DAVID FINAL STATUS TALKS | 100 | ||
| SEPTEMBER 2000: THE SECOND INTIFADA | 103 | ||
| THE SHARON ADMINISTRATION | 107 | ||
| THE ‘ROAD MAP’ TO PEACE | 110 | ||
| THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AND THE WALL | 114 | ||
| THE DEATH OF ARAFAT | 115 | ||
| THE WITHDRAWAL OF SETTLERS FROM GAZA | 118 | ||
| HAMAS WINS THE PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS | 121 | ||
| THE 2006 LEBANON WAR | 124 | ||
| HAMAS TAKES CONTROL OF GAZA | 129 | ||
| THE ISRAEL–HAMAS CEASEFIRE | 135 | ||
| THE 2008/09 GAZA WAR | 141 | ||
| 2009: THE GOLDSTONE REPORT | 153 | ||
| THE SECOND NETANYAHU ADMINISTRATION | 157 | ||
| 2010: THE ATTAC K ON THE GAZA AID FLOT ILLA | 160 | ||
| 2. Content Studies 2000–02 | 170 | ||
| INTRODUCTION: THE DISPUTED ORIGINS OF THE CONFLICT | 170 | ||
| CONTENT ANALYSIS: METHODS | 173 | ||
| SAMPLES AND RESULTS | 178 | ||
| SAMPLE ONE: 28 SEPTEMBER TO 16 OCTOBER 2000 | 178 | ||
| ADDITIONAL CONTENT SAMPLES: OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2001, MARCH–APRIL 2002 | 233 | ||
| SAMPLE TWO: OCTOBER –DECEMBER 2001 | 237 | ||
| SAMPLE THREE: MARCH 2002 | 259 | ||
| SAMPLE FOUR: JENIN, APRIL 2002 | 268 | ||
| 3. Audience Studies 2001–02 | 276 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 276 | ||
| SAMPLES AND METHOD | 276 | ||
| FOCUS GROUP METHODS AND QUESTIONS ASKED | 278 | ||
| QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES | 280 | ||
| THE QUESTIONNAIRES | 283 | ||
| RESULTS | 285 | ||
| MEMORIES, IMAGES AND ASSOCIATIONS | 285 | ||
| SOURCES OF INFORMATION USED | 286 | ||
| ORIGINS, HISTORY AND CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT | 288 | ||
| THE NEWS WRITING EXERCISE | 300 | ||
| BELIEFS ABOUT CASUALTIES | 306 | ||
| CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION AND EMPATHY | 311 | ||
| UNDERSTANDING AND INTEREST IN NEWS | 315 | ||
| 4. Why Does it Happen? | 319 | ||
| FACTORS IN PRODUCTION? | 319 | ||
| CLAIMS THAT THE MEDIA ARE BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL | 325 | ||
| THE US CONNECTION | 326 | ||
| 5. Conclusions on the 2000–02 Content and Audience Samples | 332 | ||
| 6. News Content and Competing Explanations of the 2008/09 Gaza Attack | 336 | ||
| SAMPLE AND METHODS | 340 | ||
| CAUSE, CRITICISM AND DEFENCE OF ACTION | 340 | ||
| EXPLANATORY THEMES | 348 | ||
| THE FRAGMENTED PALESTINIAN CASE | 352 | ||
| PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS | 358 | ||
| COVERAGE OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CASUALTIES | 362 | ||
| 7. Audience Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Gaza Attack 2008/09 | 369 | ||
| SAMPLE AND METHOD | 369 | ||
| RESULTS | 372 | ||
| QUESTIONS AND REPLIES ON THE GAZA ATTACK | 375 | ||
| 8. Attack on the Gaza Flotilla, 2010 | 381 | ||
| THE BLOCKADE | 391 | ||
| Conclusions | 394 | ||
| Appendix 1: Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Student Groups 2001–02 | 399 | ||
| Appendix 1 (continued): Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Student Groups 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 | 407 | ||
| Appendix 2: Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Focus Groups 2001–02 | 413 | ||
| Appendix 3: Gaza Study, Content Analysis Language Counts | 419 | ||
| Appendix 4: Black Holes of History: Public Understanding and the Shaping of Our Past | 426 | ||
| Appendix 5: Responses on History Questions 2004–09 | 433 | ||
| Notes | 437 | ||
| References | 453 | ||
| Index | 463 |