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For Israeli media, even the memory of the Nakba poses a threat
http://972mag.com/for-israeli-media-even-the-memory-of-the-nakba-poses-a-threat/100255/A new study reveals that although Israeli newspapers present an array of views on the Nakba, the most common one sees it as nothing less than a threat that seeks to delegitimize Israel.
A new study reveals that Israel’s mainstream media maintains the state’s official stance toward the Nakba, and “puts full responsibility on the tragedy that occurred in 1948 on the Palestinian leadership, thus purifying Israel from any responsibility for the outcome of the war on the Palestinian people.”
The study, conducted by Amal Jamal and Samah Basool and published earlier this year by the I’lam Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel, is based on the way Israel’s five main newspapers – Yedioth Ahronot, Ma’ariv, Israel Hayom, Haaretz and Hamodia – describe the Nakba (the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” which Palestinians use to describe the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 War). The researchers looked at how the newspaper articles refer to the Nakba during the period in which the term comes up most naturally – two weeks before Israel’s Independence Day, and two weeks after May 15, Nakba Day. The study took place between 2008-2012 in an attempt to understand the “patterns of perceptions of the Palestinian Nakba in the Israeli collective consciousness, as they are reflected in Israel’s media discourse.”
The Nakba is no different than the Trail of Tears, Stalin's mass deportations or that of the Khmer Rouge.
And as always the culprits find themselves innocent.
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....the complexity of the situation. I don't know about you, but I just love folks who think they're authorities on the situation and know practically nothing. No basic elementary knowledge of the situation at all.
Or they know what's happening with Israel but are upset regardless, mostly for irrational reasons, like blind hatred.
is "apparently blind" to Israeli atrocities.
But I guess that the complexity of illegal colonization is too hard to understand.
You really are a horrible poster.
