تَحليلُ نَقدِيٌ لِلّتناصّ فِي خِطَابِ الأرضِ،وَالأُمةِ، وَالإيمَان فِي الصَّحافَةِ الغَربيةِ حَولَ النّزَاع الإسرَائيِليِّ الفِلَسطِينيّ بَعدَ طُوفَان الأقْصىَ

Abstract

Land, nation, and faith are at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The conflict has been escalated on October 7th, 2023, when Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel from Gaza. This escalation resulted in 1,200 deaths and 250 hostages taken by the Hamas militant group. The research aims to investigate how intertextuality manifests the themes of land, nation, and faith through allusions and lexical choices by comparing narratives constructed by Western news journalists (BBC and CNN), adopting Fairclough’s three-dimensional model based on Halliday and Hassan’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework. The sample size is limited to eight excerpts selected from four news articles from each journal. The research findingsshow that the BBC and CNN use intertextuality as the main linguistic device to construct narratives about the Israel-Palestine conflict, drawing on religious, historical, and political references. It also demonstrates that intertextuality in war reporting serves as a mechanism for reproducing ideologies that reflect unequal power relations.