Fósforo branco nos céus de Gaza: interdito e manipulação na cobertura jornalística do massacre de palestinos

Abstract

This paper’s goal is to analyze the way through which american mass media, especially The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), created their representations about the last Israeli invasion in Gaza Strip, between December (2008) and january (2009). We intend to show how the newspapers (on line version) not only are social spaces of conflict, but also tools used to give legitimacy to the status quo. Taking that into account, those visions try to reduce the figure of the opponent whose meaning is, because of this process, reduced to his or her biological dimension. The other is seeing through a biopolitical view, we mean, in racial terms, which helps to control his or her image and, in turn, take control over war’s strategic that focus on them. Bearing in mind that the newspapers contribute to consolidate and naturalize the powerful’s world vision, they work to dissolve the Political Memory, determining the epistemological limits of the discussion about the last conflict. The question of Palestine would remain, therefore, - according to our hipotesis controlled to the zionist’s agenda, movement that consolidated itself defending a pure jewish society. We, basically, used Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Immanuel Wallerstein’s concepts as the traditional concept of power can not be seen out of the modern capitalist system, based in a hierarchy of countries in the international arena.