The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Through Chomsky and Bremmer’s Interviews: A Critical Discourse Analysis

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is seen as one of the most serious and controversial issues in the world. In this paper, the researcher seeks to highlight some crucial points with regard to this conflict by adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the primary means of analysis. Since conflicts are usually accompanied by social wrongs, it is more appropriate to use Fairclough’s 2010 approach to CDA in order to get more logical results. However, the study aims to provide a critical analysis of two selected interview by two famous figures; Ian Bremmer and Noam Chomsky in order to highlight the following points: (1) Representative speech acts are the dominant type used by both Bremmer and Chomsky. (2) Metaphors are utilised by the two interviewees in their interviews. (3) Noam Chomsky is an anti-war figure. (4) Hegemony is recontextualised in Bremmer’s discourse. (5) Injustice is identified as being the common social wrong in both the interviews.