Hamas: Helten eller skurken? En retorisk analyse af deres dannende charter
(2024) RETK13 20232Rhetoric
- Abstract
- As Hamas comes into the public eye because of their attack on Israel and their civilians on 7th October 2023 so does the question on what Hamas is. Are they a resistance movement? Or are they a terrorist organization as some countries deem them? Are they something else entirely?
This paper examines their original charter from 1988 through a rhetorical framework of Stephen D. O’Leary’s apocalyptic topics to analyze the narratives in the charter and Hamas’ rhetorical usage of them. This analysis uses an application of Jonas Gabrielsen’s critical view of topoi to understand the argumentative properties of each topic in this specific text and inductively find topics therefrom.
The charter is found to be polarizing in its rhetoric and full of... (More) - As Hamas comes into the public eye because of their attack on Israel and their civilians on 7th October 2023 so does the question on what Hamas is. Are they a resistance movement? Or are they a terrorist organization as some countries deem them? Are they something else entirely?
This paper examines their original charter from 1988 through a rhetorical framework of Stephen D. O’Leary’s apocalyptic topics to analyze the narratives in the charter and Hamas’ rhetorical usage of them. This analysis uses an application of Jonas Gabrielsen’s critical view of topoi to understand the argumentative properties of each topic in this specific text and inductively find topics therefrom.
The charter is found to be polarizing in its rhetoric and full of apocalyptic narratives that try to sway the involved but unsettled parties of the Israel/Palestine-conflict to their side to fight what they deem as evil; The Zionist agenda and everything in its proximity. (Less)
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- author
- Wigø, Benjamin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- RETK13 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Rhetoric, Hamas, Apocalyptic, Palestine, Topic, Topoi, O'Leary
- language
- Danish
- id
- 9146017
- date added to LUP
- 2024-04-23 07:56:15
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- 2024-04-23 07:56:15
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