ABSTRACT
The journalists selected for interviews were employed by the authoritative news media in either the United States or the United Kingdom. Journalists who produced news articles were represented in the data analysis in each of the preceding case studies. Each journalist interviewed has at least a decade of experience covering the region; most of them spent the better part of their careers focused upon Palestine-Israel. The standardized nature of language instruction for journalists covering the conflict at the British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) speaks to the importance that that organization places on language in the reportage of regional events. The language policy adopted by The New York Times is, in this instance, quite different from the terminology used by the BBC in order to describe precisely the same regional phenomenon. Former BBC Bureau Chief agrees that sameness or perceived sameness in attitudes, values, language, and habits between Westerners and Israelis readily connects the Israeli side of the conflict with Western audiences.
