The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 31)
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 31)
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(2) Appealing to morality. The mass media appeals to
certain moralistic values of the American public. For
instance, the Americans are for the “underdog,” so
the AMM presents Israel as the poor, defenseless,
persecuted country whose population is threatened
with being driven into the sea.
(3) The AMM siresses that Israel is part of the “civil-
ized’ world, while its enemies are part of the “‘un-
civilized’” world. The AMM also tries to depict
the achievements of Israel as a manifestation of the
glory of Western civilization.
(4) The AMM deliberately ignores the existence of the
Palestine problem and presents the problem as an
Arab-Israeli conflict. This technique helps in erasing
many facts and rights like the displacement of the
Palestinian people, the problem of refugees, etc.
(5) The AMM turns to a direct method by supporting
and representing the Israeli point of view and attack-
ing the Arabs as “irrational,” “people who lack
valid arguments,” “dreamers,’’ and ‘‘threatening.”’
It is worth mentioning that only 15 per cent of our
sample believed that the picture drawn by the AMM was
true. On the other hand, 31 per cent believed the picture was
incomplete; 23 per cent believed it was misleading, and 11
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes
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- ديسمبر ١٩٦٩
- المنشئ
- Sirhan, Bassem
- سرحان، باسم
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