The outbreak of peace in Israeli children's periodicals, 1977–1979

Abstract

This study focuses on two exceptional moments in the EgyptianIsraeli history of conflict: the visit of President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem in November 1977 and the signing of the IsraeliEgyptian peace treaty in March 1979. Combining peace studies, cultural studies and discourse analysis, the article analyzes the response of Israeli most popular children's periodicals to these dramatic peace events in real time, during the months in which they occurred. The article's contribution to peace research lies in its ability to shed light on how intergenerational discourse conveyes peace legacy, a relatively neglected arena in peace research. In doing so, it likewise focuses on the discursive 'failures' embedded in the Israeli peace discourse. ARTICLE HISTORY