Palestine in the US Press Assessments from 1939

The article examines the process of forming assessments of Palestine in US press. US press make it possible to establish how ideas about the causes of the crisis changed in the US information discourse; how the process of evolution of the image of Great Britain as an ally and Great Britain as a competitor proceeded. Publications of American newspapers make it possible to determine assessments of British measures to resolve the crisis of 1939. An analysis of US newspapers demonstrates the peculiarities of the formation of the image of the Jewish and Arab population of Palestine and who fell under the category «Own». The period 1939 became decisive for US public opinion in choosing priorities in the Middle East conflict. The peculiarity of the formation of the image of Palestine in 1939 there was also demonization of the rebel Arabs and the British authorities. US newspapers and magazines wrote about the religious fanaticism of the Arabs as the main reason for the uprising. Journalists explained the confrontation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine solely by religious contradictions. Moreover, this was expressed in the classic Orientalist vein: the contrast between «civilization» and «barbarism» where the United States took on the role of an observer society. The material in the article clearly illustrates the stages of evolution of assessments of crisis 1939. US newspapers demonstrate the process of change in American public perceptions of the 1939 Palestine crisis. World War II was one of the important stages in the development of the discussion of the Middle East conflict that had been going on in American newspapers and magazines since the beginning of the 20th century.