Dr. Yousuf Taresh Hilal Alamaya,
Department of English, Faculty of Education for Human Sciences, Al-Muthanna University,
Iraq
This study investigates the process of victimization and how Israeli politicians depict their people and troops as if they were oppressed victims, amplying harm that is inflected to them to rally world-wide support and supplementary advocacy for their part. This research is to be approached from a critical discursive three-part theory. This work aims at (1) finding out the main types of transitivity processes by which victimization is encoded, (2) detecting the persuasive appeals through which victimhood is structured, (3) discovering the ideologies of victimhood inserted in Israeli discourse, and (4) developing a new model enabling the audience and reader to pinpoint. The current study adopts an eclectic model of victimization, alongside the researcher’s observations to analyse the victim expressions that the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, has produced with regard to the long-term Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this regard, five texts are randomly chosen concerning victimization from different electronic websites. The most important findings that this study has come up with are: (1) Netanyahu resorts to pathos, exploiting the Audience’s emotions concerning hope and prosperity that human beings are always seeking for; (2) To maximize the harm and the consequent victimization, Netanyahu reminds the audience of the Holocaust. This absolutely evokes an agonizing reaction by the listener. That’s to say, the Prime Minister in question depends on logos; (3) Netanyahu indirectly attempted to establish a global anti-Arab group whose loyality is confined to Israel only; (4) Netanyahu utilizes various analogies to embody Israelis’ alleged losses and intensify their victimization; (5) Netanyahu mostly opts for pathos to ignite the audience’s emotions and elicit persuasion from the spectator.
Keywords: Victimization, Pathos, Ethos, Logos, Murder, Rape, Context
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The 11th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2026, Ahwaz.
