Palestine in the US political cartoons after 1945

The article examines the process of forming assessments of the situation in Palestine in the US periodical press through a visual image in cartoons. The materials of the periodical press allow us to establish how ideas about the causes of the conflict between Arabs and Jews have changed in the information discourse of the United States; how the image of Palestine has evolved. American newspaper publications allow us to assess the initial stage of the Middle East conflict. An analysis of US newspapers demonstrates the peculiarities of the formation of the image of the Jewish and Arab population of Palestine and who fell under the category of «Own». The period after 1945 became one of the determining factors for the public opinion of the United States in choosing priorities in the Middle East conflict. The article clearly illustrates the stages of the evolution of the assessments of the American periodical press after 1945, in relation to the international situation in the Middle East after the Second World War. The study of the specifics of the visualization of the conflict in Palestine details the ideas in the information discourse of the United States about the role of America, the USSR, and Great Britain in this conflict. The plots of the US cartoons form thematic links with the textual materials of periodicals and with films (about Middle Eastern).