ABSTRACT
Evacuation of Gaza does not end Israeli occupation. Within this frame of representation, journalists and printed news media outlets emphasized the perpetuation and/or expansion of Israeli occupation in Palestine despite the policy of settler withdrawal from Gaza. Upon examining a sampling of articles from the two national news media communities under investigation, certain patterns in the linguistic presentation of news events emerge. In statistical terms, four frames of representation dominated the US print news media presentation of the settler evacuation from Gaza in 2005. In descending order of frequency of appearance they are Israeli as Fractious, Israel as Lawful/Moral, Israeli Suffering, and Palestinians as Violent/Terroristic. The approach to news media analysis articulated here focuses upon language as the vehicle through which representations of real world events are passed from the news media institution to the news media consumer.
