A new approach for sentiment and geopolitical stance analysis of Reddit comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict

Abstract

The paper focuses on the persistent conflict between Israel and Palestine. of world discussion, with such sites as Reddit containing a great deal medium for public expression. This study uses natural language processing (NLP) including valence aware dictionary and sentiment reasoner (VADER) for sentimental analysis and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modelling of geopolitical positions in comments of 400,000 posts belonging to the topics subreddits. A sentiment analysis using VADER shows that negative sentiments observed and indicate that such sentiments prevail throughout fear of aggression, human suffering, and threat. media biases. LDA analysis for topic modelling. The process of LDA reveals such important topics as humanitarian ones. media discourses, polemizing and appeals for calm. Furthermore, the study which divides comments into geopolitical attitudes – support for or yet, Israelis, supporters of Palestine, opponents of both, and neutrals, offering a contingency comprehensive conception of public perspectives. The results emphasize the effectiveness of large-scale. Of the big data pre-processing techniques, NLP can be used to understand geopolitics and its intricate dynamics. educate policy makers, researchers, and media planners.