The Deal of the Century in Light of the Critical Discourse Analysis: Trump and Netanyahu's Speech as a Model

The study examines the discourse by the U.S.A. President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Speech of the Century Deal announced on 28th January 2020, at the White House which was show from a press interview on Arabiya English on the YouTube channel. This research also observes the speech in terms of verbal communication, which includes a critical analysis of discourse and language through Micro-level and Macro-level, and non-verbal communication that includes the analysis of rhetoric, body language and faces of both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The theory of discourse was used to analyse the speech of the Deal of the Century. The verbal communication was analysed with NVivo program to finding out the number of repetitive words in each of the two speeches, such as pronouns, verbs, adjectives, models, and analysis on the total takeover (power, Ideology). Non-verbal communication was analysed based on body and facial language. The critical of discourse was used to analyse the speech of the Deal of the Century. The findings show that the discourse of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the abuse of power to build the speech, as it was built on the ideology of hegemony and bias that serves the interests of Israel and the Jews, the strong party, and the total disregard of the Palestinian side, which is a part of the peace process and around which the deal of the century is being brokered. The discourse also demonstrated the strong relationship between America and Israel and their common interests in the Middle East. The discourse is far from achieving peace between the two parties, as the proposed projects were in support of Israel while the Palestinians were placed in the category of coercion and acceptance. Keywords: The deal of century, discourse theory, critical discourse analysis, Israel, Palestine.