War — Purity of Arms and Souls in the Conservative Press

Abstract

The two empirical chapters to conclude this book will move closer to what may be at the heart of the matter. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 concerned explicit textual occurrences and addressed them at their numerical face value. Though Chapters 5 and 6 offered some interpretative analysis concerning the implications of utterances, it was still explicit textual occurrences that were addressed. The current as well as the following chapter, in turn, will take an exclusively interpretative orientation to the analysis of narratives and arguments the editorials of conservative and liberal newspapers utilized to account for the armed conflict of Gaza. That is, this chapter will aim to understand political-moral perspectives.