Palestinian National Authority's public relations policies relating to Israel: Current attitudes among Palestinian officials and media experts

Palestinian Children Crafting National Identity

“…Traditionally, research on children's national identity focuses on studying its correlation with state doctrine infused in school curricula (Howard and Gill, 2001;Myers, 1999). This approach is irrelevant in the Palestinian case, not because Palestinians have no control of the design of school curricula (Assad, 2000), but because other prevalent aspects such as community activities, intergenerational dialogue and media portrayals contribute to the rendering of Palestinian national identity (Aqtash, 2005;Habashi, 2004). The significance of studying these dispersed aspects is the direct association with geopolitical discourse.…”

The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the “Battle over Framing”

“…The violent pictures broadcasted from the uprising created a split between two main competing frames: the “law and order frame,” which sided with the Israeli authorities and presented the uprising as an internal disorder led by outlaws, and the “injustice frame,” which sided with the Palestinian population and presented the events as a struggle for rights. Both Schleifer (2003) and Aqtash (2005) argue that the coverage of the Second Intifada in the years 2001 to 2005 became a much more clear-cut case in the international media’s preference toward the Palestinian narrative, mainly due to the harsh images of injured civilians and fatalities on the Palestinian side. Other studies claimed an altogether balanced view (Galloway 2005; Kalb and Saivetz 2007).…”