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    Power and Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Netanyahu’s 2023 UN Speech on Gaza Conflicts
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2025) Nimra Ayub; FA23-REL-018; Dr. Aasia Nusrat; LHR TP 9744
    Political discourse is a strong instrument between two different levels of public awareness, policy decisions, and moderating state actions. The political leadership of war-prone areas such as the Middle East uses rhetoric to build up narratives connecting the themes of nation-building narratives, maintaining power, and the orientation of international relations. This study will undertake a critical analysis of the UNGA speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the year 2023. The above argument was tested by applying Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that interprets Netanyahu’s linguistic strategies, rhetorical framing, and ideological construction. The research critically analyzes how Netanyahu depicts Israel as a defensive and peace-seeking state while presenting Iran and Palestinian leadership as existential threats. In his discourse, he not only legitimates Israel’s strategic alliances but also delegitimizes Palestinian complaints through an argument, furthermore, to analyze the reaction and reporting of the international media as well as electronic media, this research has applied Van Leeuwen’s Model of Social Actor Representation. Media framing plays a critical role in modeling global perceptions and awareness of conflicts, and this study assesses how media outlets depict Netanyahu as a strong and visionary leader, whereas left-leaning Western and Arab media frame his speech as a justification for occupation and military aggression. By analyzing media interpretations, this research highlights how political discourse is strategically recontextualized to serve ideological narratives and geopolitical interests. This study adds to the body of research work on Critical Discourse Analysis, indicating how a particular type of language plays the role of a tool of control in international diplomacy. Through the deconstruction of Netanyahu’s speech and what the media made of it, this paper will highlight the contribution made by language as a legitimizing factor of geopolitical actions. At its core, therefore, this study emphasizes the imperativeness of critically engaging with political discourse in forming an opinion that encourages both the scholar and the policymaker, as well as the media practitioner, to question the mainstream narrative and detect the role of rhetoric in shaping conflicts around the world