Frameworks for the treatment of Arab and foreign electronic newspapers of the Egyptian position on the Israeli aggression on Gaza (2021) :

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Mass Communication - Al-Azhar University

Abstract

The study sought to determine the frameworks for dealing with Arab and foreign electronic newspapers directed in Arabic to the Egyptian position on the Israeli attack on Gaza in the period from May 11 to August 11 (2021). In its theoretical construction, the study relied on the assumptions of the media framework analysis theory and employed them in analyzing the News frames of the issues of the Israeli aggression on Gaza. to which they belong, through the analysis of 726 press articles of the aggression against Gaza in the three newspapers, where Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ranked first with a rate of 42.29 percent.
 The British Independent ranked second with a rate of 31.82%, then the American Washington Post ranked third and last with a rate of 25.90.
This study is one of the descriptive studies that used the media survey and qualitative method.
 The study concluded to some results as follows:
-The study newspapers varied in dealing with the issues of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
-The three newspapers agreed on topics consistent with their stance towards the Israeli aggression on Gaza. In addition, the editorial policy of Arab and foreign newspapers coincides with the newspapers' general position towards the Palestinian issue and the Israeli aggression on Gaza.-The study newspapers confirmed that the Israeli forces carried out attacks during the May 2021 fighting in the Gaza Strip and Israel that violated the laws of war that amounted to war crimes. deliberately cracking down on the media outlets in the Gaza Strip;-
The study newspapers indicated that Israel “renewed its hostility to the Palestinians. It seeks to silence the mouths of the local and international media.” And the destruction of housing during the period of the war on the Gaza Strip.
-The study newspapers published many topics and means of highlighting that showed the brutality of the brutal Israeli attack.The results revealed that the position of the Egyptian political leadership regarding the Egyptian position on striking Gaza ranked first with a rate of 18.38%, and in the last place came the solidarity of the Egyptian People’s Assembly with Gaza by 2.68%. This is due to the emergence of the Egyptian-Arab-American initiative to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The results also revealed the positive trend of the contents of the topics published in the study newspapers on aggression, which came in the first place with a percentage of 64.60%. The negative rank came in last place with a rate of 10.88%. This result is consistent with the editorial policy of those newspapers that adopt the position of supporting the rights of the Palestinian people and opposing the Israeli occupation and aggression.
 

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