Targeting Terrorists

Plaw, Avery

doi:10.4324/9781315611877

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“…Sci. 3(3) 1-11, 2024 Terminology likewise reflected this, with "disputed territories" rather than "occupied" and "terrorists" over "freedom fighters" (Plaw, 2016). Furthermore, different scholars have attributed this in part to practical factors like the majority of journalists being based in Israel with limited access to the occupied territories (Bolton, 2024) (Philo and Berry, 2004;).…”

Section: Media Bias In the Israeli-palestinian Conflictmentioning

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Unmasking Media Bias and Religious Zionism’s Impeding Political Influence on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Barari,

Yacoub

2024

Am. J. Arts Hum. Sci.

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Israeli media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often accused of bias that skews public discourse in ways favoring hardline Zionist policy goals. This study analyzes news articles from the Times of Israel, Israel Hayom, and Jerusalem Post covering October 2023 violence to understand how language and framing shape understandings and political dynamics. A critical discourse analysis of 34 selected news articles published between October 7-30, 2023 was conducted using the CDA framework to uncover underlying ideological elements and their potential effects. The findings illuminated how certain outlets strategically frame information to reinforce unilateral policy preferences over collaborative solutions. By normalizing disproportionate responses to acts of resistance and denying the humanity of those contesting Zionist territorial ambitions. The Times of Israel and Israel Hayom frame narratives to consolidate unilateral Zionist control and normalize militarized policies. Jerusalem Post aims to build a pro-Israel narrative through political language and ‘us vs. them’ framing. Strategic omissions deny Palestinian grievances and legitimacy, while emotive reporting justifies disproportionate force. The studied media construct narrow nationalist discourses that delegitimize Palestinian perspectives and fuel intractability. Reforms are needed to diversify sourcing and fact-check distortions to curb biases exacerbating political polarization rather than reconciliation.

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Section: Media Bias In the Israeli-palestinian Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmasking Media Bias and Religious Zionism’s Impeding Political Influence on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Barari,

Yacoub

2024

Am. J. Arts Hum. Sci.

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“…Beginning in late 2002, under the Bush administration, the CIA began strikes on a small number of “high-value targets” comprising al-Qa’ida and Taliban leaders (Plaw, 2006). Under the Obama administration, these strikes increased in frequency, reaching a peak of at least 128 in Pakistan alone in 2010, then declining as US involvement in Afghanistan diminished and the focus of the War on Terror shifted to Yemen and the Horn of Africa.…”

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Norm transformation and the institutionalization of targeted killing in the US

Pratt

2018

European Journal of International Relations

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This article explains the emergence and institutionalization of the US’s targeted killing practices as a case of norm transformation. I argue that international and domestic US prohibitions on assassination have not disappeared, but have changed as a result of practitioner-led changes in the conventions, technologies, and bureaucratic structures governing the use of force in counterterrorism activities. After discussing the limits of alternative explanations, and drawing inspiration from practice theory, pragmatist social theory, and relational sociology, I posit three causal mechanisms as responsible for the transformation: convention reorientation, which was the redefinition of targeted killing to distinguish it from assassination; technological revision, which was the development and use of unmanned aerial vehicles (“drones”) to bypass normative and strategic concerns over precision; and network synthesis, which was the support of the Bush administration and especially of the Obama administration, overruling dissenters from within the Central Intelligence Agency (who were often very highly placed). I trace the processes by which these mechanisms operated and interacted in simultaneous and mutually reinforcing ways from the start of the millennium until now. Finally, I discuss some of the ways in which this contributes to institutional analysis and the study of norm change more generally, and, in particular, how it considers the role of technology and the reciprocity of means and ends.

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“…The first branch on the use of targeted killing includes statistical studies on the frequency of targeting killing (Eisner, 2011 ; see also the descriptive statistics in Jones & Olken, 2009 ; McGovern, 2010 ), work on the history of targeted-killing strategies (F. L. Ford, 1985 ), and studies on how and why agents resort to this type of violence (David, 2003 ; Gazit & Brym, 2011 ; Iqbal & Zorn, 2008 ; Jacobsen & Kaplan, 2007 ; Plaw, 2008 ; Teergarden, 2014 ). In this context, scholars have also inquired into the trends and causes of the proliferation of drones as the preferred instruments of contemporary targeted-killing operations (Gilli & Gilli, 2016 ; Horowitz & Fuhrman, 2015 ; Sayler, 2015 ; see also critically Carvin, 2015 ).…”

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The transformation of targeted killing and international order

Senn

Troy

2017

Contemporary Security Policy

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This article introduces the special issue’s question of whether and how the current transformation of targeted killing is transforming the global international order and provides the conceptual ground for the individual contributions to the special issue. It develops a two-dimensional concept of political order and introduces a theoretical framework that conceives the maintenance and transformation of international order as a dynamic interplay between its behavioral dimension in the form of violence and discursive processes and its institutional dimension in the form of ideas, norms, and rules. The article also conceptualizes targeted killing and introduces a typology of targeted-killing acts on the basis of their legal and moral legitimacy. Building on this conceptual groundwork, the article takes stock of the current transformation of targeted killing and summarizes the individual contributions to this special issue.

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Targeting Terrorists

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Unmasking Media Bias and Religious Zionism’s Impeding Political Influence on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Unmasking Media Bias and Religious Zionism’s Impeding Political Influence on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Norm transformation and the institutionalization of targeted killing in the US

The transformation of targeted killing and international order

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