The Social Attitudes Of the Faculty of Letters’ Students Towards the City of Jerusalem “A Field Study of a Research Sample from the Faculty of Letters’ Students at Damascus University”

The research is aimed at analyzing the circumstances, accompanying the youths social attitudes towards the holy city, at a time, the Zionist onslaught, aimed at Judaizing Jerusalem has increased, and at the time when material values and those of interest are on the rise among youth and students. This fact makes those youth and students’ stands and attitudes, concerning the vital issues, including the Palestine cause in general and the city of Jerusalem in particular, derived from their perceptions and material attitudes and consequently it makes the social value of the city of Jerusalem less clearer.

The Informational Presence of Jerusalem on the Internet

The internet unique publications are considered by many to be the fourth type of journalism. This is due to the advantages of the internet through which many problems of publishing were solved. Since the city of Jerusalem has its special conditions (being under the Israeli occupation), the present study is an attempt to investigate the informational presence of this city on the internet. The purpose of this study is to know the size of the informational presence of this city on the internet in comparison with other Arab capital cities, and to study the digital documentary content of the websites which dealt with this city. This study answers a number of questions related to the content of the documents and websites which dealt with this city. The following documents and websites were analyzed during the months of April, May and June in 2009.