Using the theoretical framework of Teun van Dijk’s ideological square (VAN DIJK, 2001: 21-63 in BELL, GARRETT, 2001), Critical Discourse Analysis (VAN DIJK Teun A., a,b,c1989; JØRGENSEN & PHILLIPS, 2002; RICHARDSON, 2007; WODAK & CHILTON, 2005; WODAK & MEYER ,2001) , the new Theory of Context (VAN DIJK, 2008, 2009) and Edward Said’s Orientalism (SAID,1979), I have studied the image of the Israeli-Arab conflict in nine elite newspapers in Belgium (La Libre Belgique, Le Soir), France (Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro) and UK (The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian). The analysis tries to reveal how European quality newspapers represent the conflict, implicated actors, there actions and qualities, events and settings (places, territories). The analyzed data contains all front pages (311 front pages for each newspaper), 23 communicative events (political, conflict) and a random sample of 36 issues during 2006. A codebook of six categories including 81 variables was applied to the collected data. This research is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Marc Lits at the UCL (Université catholique de Louvain) in Belgium. Results of the analysis show how the elite newspapers refer to and name actors, actions or events and territories and how actors get to speak. I argue that not only editorial contents could be ideological, but also news reports and even page layout and photography choice. Further more, I build on van Dijk’s ideological square to show that the “Us†and “Them†dichotomy becomes more complex when dealing with the Israeli-Arab conflict. In one hand, Israel is considered by European elite newspapers as a member of the West and categorized as “Us†and in the other hand, Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs are classified as others in “Them†category. This thesis answers five questions: 1. How often is the Arab-Israeli conflict coved by the European quality newspapers? 2. What are the covered issues? 3. Who gets to speak, study of news sources? 4. How ...