O “conflito” Israel-Palestina e observações sobre a perspectiva da Veja (2023)

Abstract

The Israel-Hamas conflict that started on October 7th, 2023, reignited flames of a fight whose origins have over a century. Between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews, there is a shared history of battles and political movements involving also external forces that participated in a Palestinian mass exodus project that even though did not happen as planned, still showed itself very useful in consolidating a narrative bought by the West and accepted in most of the world. The media, that for the general population is the main source of information regarding events in their country and abroad, have an important role in disseminating and maintaining this perspective that represents the voice and will of the status quo. This work proposes itself in understanding the origins of the current struggle with a contextualization since the foundation of Zionism in 1882 passing through historical milestones – as for example the UN 181 Resolution of 1947 that sets the bounds of the Jewish and Palestinian states – that brought us to where we are today, and how the media, specifically the Veja magazine, has reported the recent developments of the conflict. Because it is a source that is also an important actor with its ideological load, the due problematizations regarding such a type of source (that also becomes an object) are considered as well. In addition, as events that are not yet finished whose origins date not more than a few decades are being analyzed here, the History of the Present Time concept will be used as a basis.