Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The New York Times versus Haaretz , 2000–06

Bibliographic Data

ID11262023
AuthorsJerome Slater (0000-0001-9460-5630, Jerome Slater is University Research Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is at work on a book on U.S. policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict., corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume32
Issue2
Pages84-120
Publication date2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Security (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/isec.2007.32.2.84
OpenAlexW2144925290
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited14

The prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain poor, largely because of Israeli rigidity as well as Palestinian policies and internal conflicts. The United States has failed to use its considerable influence with Israel to seek the necessary changes in Israeli policies, instead providing the country with almost unconditional support. The consequences have been disastrous for the Palestinians, for Israeli security and society, and for critical U.S. national interests in the Middle East. Amajor explanation for the failure of U.S. policies is the largely uninformed and uncritical mainstream and even elite media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. In contrast, the debate in Israel is more self-critical, vigorous, and far-ranging, creating at least the possibility of change, even as U.S. policy stagnates. Acomparison of the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the two most prestigious daily newspapers in the United States and Israel—in particular, over the breakdown of the peace process in 2000 and the ensuing Palestinian intifada, the nature of the Israeli occupation, the problem of violence and terrorism, and the prospects for peace today—underscores these differences. While the New York Times has muted the alarm over the dangers of the United States' near-unconditional support for Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, Haaretz has sought to sound the alarm

Arab–Israeli conflict · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Mainstream · Middle East · National security · Newspaper · Palestinian refugees · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Terrorism · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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