y way of illustration, although he or she is a supporter of the Israeli cause, may soften his or her opinion of the Palestinians if an information medium correctly reports the needless death of a Palestinian child because of indiscriminant shelling by the Israeli defense force. Simultaneously, however, a second American (also a supporter of the Israeli cause) will become enraged at the same report, contending that it reflects an unacceptable anti-Israeli bias (Wolfsfeld, 2003). Similarly, a Palestinian likely will react angrily to a media report of the anguish and hurt caused in an Israeli community by a suicide bomber, contending that no one has sympathy for Palestinian grief when Israeli air strikes kill and main Palestinian civilians (Dahani, 2003).
The aim of this study is to investigate the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the mass media. It is possible to conduct such a study in a range from a very broad perspective to a very narrow perspective. The research scope of this st
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