Yasser Arafat

Arafat, Yasser; Bishara, Ghassan

doi:10.1525/jps.1983.13.1.00p0026m

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“…Palestinian women that sewing at late night for her children, and a newborn child on Palestinian soil (Arafat & Bishara 1983).…”

Section: The Establishment Of Plo and Fatahmentioning

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Malaysian Media Coverage of Palestinian Presidents’ Image during Crises 1996-2016

Arandas¹

2023

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Maintaining a good image of political leaders is significant to ensure their political life. The image of political leaders, including presidents of any country, is threatened when they are facing critical situations. This study examines the coverage by the Malaysian media, specifically New Straits Times (NST), on the Palestinian Presidents, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas and their portrayal towards several crises. Both image repair theory and framing perspective were used to guide the study. A total of 2715 news stories have been found about Palestinian issues in the 21 year period covered from 1996-2016. A total of 531 stories were related to Palestinian Presidents, 456 stories were on crises. This study employing content analysis has revealed three main crises faced by the Palestinian Presidents, namely political, social, and economic crisis. The political crises included: peace process, internal conflict, foreign pressure, Israeli attacks, Israeli blockade, Palestinian attacks, Israeli threats, clashes, demonstrations, Israeli spying, kidnapping, and relations breakdown. The social crises included: corruption, information leakage, cheating, false information, Israeli rumours, and Israeli slanders. The economic crises included only financial crisis. Palestinian Presidents have used all the main image repair strategies, namely denial, evasion of responsibility, reducing offensiveness, corrective action, and mortification.

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“…Palestinian women that sewing at late night for her children, and a newborn child on Palestinian soil (Arafat & Bishara 1983).…”

Section: The Establishment Of Plo and Fatahmentioning

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Malaysian Media Coverage of Palestinian Presidents’ Image during Crises 1996-2016

Arandas¹

2023

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“…His performance was striking: clad in a military uniform, wearing a pistol holster on his hip, he visually emphasized his credentials as a fighter for his people's liberation. In this speech, Arafat, called himself the "leader of the Palestinian revolution" (Arafat 1974). Presenting himself as a 'revolutionary,' he called up images of Che Guevara and others and explicitly refused to be framed as a 'terrorist.'…”

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“…They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of selfdefence" (Arafat 1974). Though pointing to the significance of words in this context, his Pointing to the challenges of intercultural communication involved in the Israeli/Palestinian international battle of narratives, Susan Abulhawa, a successful American-Among the issues that continue to have powerful effects are the status of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, and the unresolved status of now 5 million refugees, many of whom still live in refugee camps.…”

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Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy

Fischer

2020

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Israel/Palestine is a context in which the term apartheid keeps reappearing. As a historical analogy and cultural shorthand, it functions as a powerful Palestinian weapon when used to describe Israeli policy and actions in what amounts to a battle of narratives in the international arena. For a long time, Palestinians have been known solely for their violent struggle but using loaded vocabulary to depict their lives and experiences under Israeli control is more than just using a certain word, it is a strategic choice. The earliest uses of the apartheid analogy have long been placed in the 1970s, but evidence of its use can already be found before the United Nation's General Assembly (UNGA) declared apartheid a crime in 1973. The first instances happened simultaneously with the development of the organized Palestinian national movement in the 1960s.Focusing on Fayez Sayegh , an academic and UN special rapporteur to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, I argue that such historical analogies need to be read as a non-violent tactic of resistance within the Palestinian struggle. Sayegh was almost singlehandedly responsible for introducing the apartheid analogy at the United Nations--my primary contextual interest. His analyses of racial segregation, however, were thoroughly countered, making his engagement for Palestine seem like a failure (Feldman 2015: 18). And yet, his early attempts to bring the apartheid analogy into wide circulation along with the increasingly more complicated situation on the ground show results: Today, the term has become common usage in describing Israel and puts enormous pressure on the country. The spread of the apartheid analogy shows that non-violent forms of Palestinian resistance, which in the 1960s and 1970s were almost invisible internationally, long existed.

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Yasser Arafat

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Malaysian Media Coverage of Palestinian Presidents’ Image during Crises 1996-2016

Malaysian Media Coverage of Palestinian Presidents’ Image during Crises 1996-2016

Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy

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