The intifada, which began in December 1987, has become one of the longest running confrontations within the broad context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. This volume is not concerned with why the intifada phenomenon began, how it developed, or possible scenarios for the future. Rather, it is about communication and the intifada: what people have been saying, thinking, and writing about the conflict and about the messages being produced by the mass media. The book is a collection of studies conducted mostly in Israel and some other Western countries.

CONTENTS PrefaceixIntroduction: Framing Political ConflictxiiiGadi Wolfsfeld1 Information and Revolutionary Ritual in Intifada Graffiti1Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg2 Frame Ambiguities: Intifada Narrativization of the Experience by Israeli Soldiers27Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Tamar Liebes3 The Intifada is Not a War: Jewish Public Opinion on the Israel-Arab Conflict53Hanna Levinsohn and Elihu Katz4 The Impact of the Intifada on Arabs in Israel: The Case of a Double Periphery64Majid Al-Haj5 Intifada Voices in Jerusalem: On Media, Politics, and Behavior76Akiba A.Cohen6 American Media, Public Opinion, and the Intifada93Eytan Gilboa7 Television News and the Intifada: A Comparative Study of Social Conflict116Akiba A.Cohen, Hanna Adoni, and Hillel Nossek8 Women in the Intifada: A Television News Perspective142Chava E.Tidhar and Dafna Lemish9 Images of Intifada Television News: The Case of Nahalin160Yosefa Loshitzky10 Reporting the Intifada in the Israeli Press: How Mainstream Ideology Overrides ###8220;Quality###8221; and ###8220;Melodrama###8221;176Itzhak Roeh and Raphael Nir11 Structuring the Intifada in Al-Fajr Jerusalem and The Jerusalem Post192Catherine Ann Collins and jeanne E.ClarkAuthor Index207Subject Index211