Terrorism in Israel in the Eyes of the Media

Is the print Media favorable disposed towards the §Israelis or the Palestinians? This bloody conflict §in the Middle East has a global repercussion and the §importance for the sides of its Media portrayal §cannot be underestimated.§After a terrorist attack, why is there such a wide §gap in attributions of blame to each side between §different newspapers? Why are different solutions §for the conflict proposed? Do these different §evaluations tell us something about each newspaper §or their readership? Does it matter how each §newspaper evaluates the conflict? Media and Terror §in Israel attempts to answer these questions using §an empirical approach in the field of social §sciences.§A large number of newspaper editorials from the §United States, Spain and Israel of a ten-year period §(1996-2006) are sampled and analyzed quantitatively §and qualitatively. The results allow us to determine §how the cultural base in each country, the type of §newspaper and the experiences of mass terrorism in §each country shape the way in which blame for the §violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is §allocated.