Arabuluculuk Çatışması: Pan-Arap Uluslararası Uydu TV Yayıncılığının Aracılığıyla Filistin Bölünmesinin Arabuluculuğu

Year 2021, , 51 - 84, 31.12.2021

Hussein Al- Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.26513/tocd.873752

Abstract

Bu makale, 2007 yılında Filistin’de El Fetih ve Hamas arasında patlak veren iç çatışma sırasında, Pan-Arap uluslararası uydu TV (PASTV) haber yayıncılığı aracılığıyla bölgesel ve Filistinli siyasi aktörler arasındaki perde arkası etkileşimi araştırmaktadır. Makale öncelikle PASTV basının bu etkileşim sırasında Filistin’in siyasi karar alma sürecini şekillendirmede oynadığı etkili rolün üzerine yoğunlaşmaktadır. Siyaset ve haber yayıncılığı arasındaki etkileşim, bu makaledeki teorik çerçeveyi yani ‘arabuluculuk’ teorisindeki temel tartışmayı oluşturmaktadır, aynı zamanda makale ‘siyasi mantık’ ve ‘haber yayıncılığı mantığı’ arasındaki etkileşimi bir çatışma olarak değerlendirir. Böyle bir çatışma, “tarafsız” ve “katılımcı” basın arasındaki farkı ve bunun siyasi süreçleri ve siyasi kültürü nasıl etkileyebileceğini yansıtır. Makale, bir muhbirin bakış açısıyla, bu tür uluslararası siyasi iletişimin nasıl gerçekleştiğini ve her siyasi oyuncunun PASTV basınının şekillendirdiği gerçeklik aracılığıyla elde etmeye çalıştığı hedefleri incelemektedir. Makale, PASTV basının oynadığı rolün tesadüfi olmadığını, bölgesel finansörlerin çatışmadaki çıkarlarının bir uzantısı olduğunu kanıtlamaktadır. Filistinli müttefiklerin siyasi nüfuzunu güçlendirmeye ve halkın sempatisini kazanmaya çalışırken, bölünmenin alevlenmesi ve devam etmesi sonuç haline gelmiştir.

Keywords

Arabuluculuk, Uluslararası TV Yayıncılığı, Medya Mantığı, Siyasi Mantık, Aracılı Gerçeklik

A Mediatised Conflict: The Mediatisation of Palestinian Split in Pan-Arab Transnational Satellite TV Journalism

Abstract

This article explores the behind-the-scenes interplay between regional and Palestinian political actors through pan-Arab international satellite TV (PASTV) news media during the Palestinian internal conflict sparked in 2007 between Fatah and Hamas. The primary focus is on the influential role played by PASTV journalism in shaping the Palestinian political decision-making process during this interplay. The interplay between politics and news media forms the core discussion in the theory of ‘mediatisation’, which informs the theoretical framework in this article, also referring to such interplay as a struggle between ‘political logic’ and ‘news media logic’. Such a struggle reflects the difference between “neutral” and “participant” journalism and how that might influence political processes and political culture. From an informant’s perspective, the article examines how such transnational political communication took place, and the aims each political player attempted to achieve through the mediated reality shaped in PASTV journalism. The study demonstrates with evidence how the role played by PASTV journalism was not an accidental occurrence but an extension of their regional financers’ interests in the conflict. While trying to reinforce the political clout of their Palestinian ally and maximize public sympathy toward this position, the exacerbation and perpetuation of the split become consequences.

Keywords

Mediatisation, Transnational TV Journalism, Media Logic, Political Logic, Mediated Reality

Supporting Institution

No supporting institution

Thanks

Thanks for Professor Ilan Pappe, for being an invaluable source of knowledge and inspirement during this work, mainly in his matchless achievements in Middle East and Palestinian affairs.

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