Pro-israelisk kritik mot UNRWA : en retorisk analys av Middle Eastern Quarterlys specialnummer om UNRWA

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this thesis has been to categorize the criticism that the pro-Israeli side presents against UNRWA. With a rhetorical perspective I have carefully examined an academic journal with an expressed pro-American agenda to find the main theses of the criticism. My studies showed that the criticism the authors are presenting is that it is wrong that the integration has disappeared from UNRWA’s mandate, that the refugees should be integrated in their new societies, that the General Assembly has an agenda against Israel, that five million refugees cannot return to Israel, that UNRWA creates a problem to future peace negotiations and that the US has the power to reform what is wrong about UNRWA. There is constantly a use of ethos, logos and pathos. An example of ethos is how they refer to resolutions and officials from the UNRWA, logos is used when the authors presents facts and let the reader come to same conclusions and an example of pathos is how the authors continuously associates UNRWA with terrorist organizations and other “enemy groups”.