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Algeria's anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption

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aliases@cherif_neo-pan-arabism_nodate, loc. 83

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Algeria’s anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption

Evidence

But this “confrontation” is not taking place outside Algeria’s borders. In other words, we do not see Algeria joining Iran and Syria in arming Hezbollah or staging attacks against Israel. We do not see the tit-for-tat that exists between Iran and Israel being replicated in the case of Algeria. The “confrontation” is essentially taking place in the Algerian media and social media, and is aimed primarily at the Algerian and Moroccan publics. … The story was quickly debunked by fact-checkers, but after it had achieved its goal. Such stories emerge regularly and then spread through social media, which are close to Algerian security or official sources and have a wide reach. The Algerian public, like all other Arab publics, remains culturally pan- Arab; cuddling it with the Zionist conspiracy is a good entertainer. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 83

Categorization

  • XREF: An almost perfect contemporary case of what the reader is researching — manufactured external enemy sustaining in-group solidarity, where the ‘confrontation’ happens rhetorically and never materially. — connects to: Anti-Israel criticism gets coded as Islamist backwardness in media framing.; Post-war Algerian moderation under Bendjedid prioritized domestic economics over foreign posturing — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1681; Market incentives drive the media to reinforce rather than challenge religious explanations of terrorism (+2 more)
  • DEFINE: Clarifies what Algeria’s ‘confrontation’ with Israel actually consists of: a purely domestic media phenomenon, not state-to-state hostilities.

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