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Hamas: Helten eller skurken? En retorisk analyse af deres dannende charter

Wigø, Benjamin LU (2024) RETK13 20232
Rhetoric
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
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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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Wigø, Benjamin}},
  language     = {{dan}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Hamas: Helten eller skurken? En retorisk analyse af deres dannende charter}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}