The purpose of this study was to examine how Assabah Aljadeed (Published SEPTEMBER 1, 2020) and New York Times (Published Sept. 15, 2020Updated Nov. 11, 2020) newspapers framed the idea of normalization between Israel and the Arab world, as well as how these publications covered it in relation to social cognition and context. Therefore, two primary models of Critical Discourse Analysis were adopted as the framework for the research, Halliday’s model (1994) for the explanation of transitivity and Van Dijk's socio-cognitive approach (1991). In methodology, the researcher used the descriptive-analytical survey method to determine the most popular issues, forms, and journalistic sources that the newspapers dealt with on the topic of normalization. The information was gathered from a variety of journal sources, including the New York Times, Assabah Aljadeed Newspaper, website and some public social media like Facebook, YouTube and Tweeter and some television channels like Al-Jazeera, Reuters Arabic, Associated France Press (AFP) Arabic. Results indicate that both papers documented Israel's and the Arab countries' cooperative efforts toward achieving their normalization objectives. Israel attempted to end the conflict with Palestine in order to continue annexing sizable portions of the West Bank that it had captured. On the other hand, Arab nations look to the US and Israel for assistance in the political and economic spheres. Trump, the US president, was the third party that attempted to take advantage of normalization in order to win support for the elections for president in 2020. By the end of this thesis, it should be evident not only how these news sources fit into the geopolitical framework of the area but also how recent agreements on normalization have impacted the constructivist explanation of an Arab consensus about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
