Looking for discourse that is going to perfectly fit my needs is impossible. Originally, I planned to look for events and see how two NGOs talked about them differently. However, this is proving to be impossible as the only common event that the NGOs are reporting on is Operation Protective Edge. While my project is slightly about Operation Protective Edge, it's not completely about Operation Protective Edge. So originally I was going to look at the reporting of human rights violations by each NGO. In other words: if Al-Haq reports violation X, then how does B'Tselem report violation X. But in reality, it seems that while Al-Haq is reporting violation X, B'Tselem is reporting violation Y. They don't report the same little violations; none of the murders or ransackings or abuses are the same. So I decided to compare violation X and violation Y. For example, if Al-Haq is reporting on a Palestinian civilian who was killed by IDF, then I will look for a different Palestinian civilian that was killed by IDF that was reported by B'Tselem. I will try to match up location, date, and any other characteristics of the violations that appear to be similar. In this way, I will be able to somewhat overcome the lack of consistent reporting.
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I feel like that may still be kind of hard to compare even though it's definitely better matching it up like that. Maybe see if there's another Israeli NGO that reports what the Palestinian one is reporting or vice versa. There's a lot of NGO's to choose from, maybe see if another reports on the same events as one from the other side?
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