Hamas "Mickey Mouse" Back On The Air

Children's TV Character Teaching Anti-Israel Messages To Palestinian Kids Returns Despite Protests

(CBS/AP)  A weekly children's show on a Hamas-run TV station featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike preaching Islamic domination was broadcast as usual Friday, two days after the Palestinian information minister said it would be suspended immediately.

The show, featuring a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice, made headlines worldwide because the character has preached against Israel and the U.S. and urged Palestinian children to fight Israel. It is broadcast on Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa TV.

Hamas, which is sworn to Israel's destruction, shares power in the Palestinian government with the moderate Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti, an independent, said Wednesday that the show reflects a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle for independence and would be suspended immediately to allow for a review.

But the station's manager, Hazem al-Sharawi, said on Friday the show called "Tomorrow's Pioneers" has an educational message and will not be canceled.

Barghouti would only say Friday that the station had promised to correct any problems. He said he has no control over private stations, but has asked the station to review the content. If there are still violations, "we will continue to work with them," he added.

Israeli officials have denounced the program as incendiary and outrageous. The program was also opposed by the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., which is controlled by Fatah.

The lead character is called Farfour (or butterfly in Arabic), but is an unmistakable copy of the Disney character. On Friday, the character said he cheated on his exams because "the Jews destroyed my house," and he lost his books under the rubble. Children called in telling him his behavior was un-Islamic.

On previous episodes, the character said: "You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists. We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers."

"We will win, Bush!" he said.

During Friday's show, the adult presenter and the station manager, al-Sharawi, told viewers that once Islam rules, its message of "good and peace" will also rule.

"We don't incite. We present facts," said al-Sharawi. "We can't cut off our children from the reality they live everyday."

He said he repeated the words "love" and "peace" six times during the show.

"We have an educational and entertainment message. It carries knowledge, a sense of humor and morality. There is no shame in this, and we will not go back on it," he said.

Hamas loyalists launched the Al Aqsa satellite channel last year. Bearded young men read the news and Islamic music is layered over footage of masked militants firing rockets into Israel. The channel also broadcasts talk shows, programs about the disabled and cartoons.

"The children, through this loveable image, are receiving poisonous messages and they don't even realize that they are being poisoned," Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group, told CBS News correspondent Richard Roth.

And it isn’t just TV rodents who are attracting condemnation: A colorful Hamas Web site tells a fable about a girl who guides Israeli soldiers over a roadside bomb to their deaths.

But some say the problem isn’t what's on television or the Internet — it's real life.

Israeli columnist Gideon Levy told Roth, "A child in Gaza does not need a cartoon in order to hate the occupation, to hate Israel. He opens his eyes in the morning and he sees reality around him."

Despite a rival Palestinian faction's effort to censor the show, a Hamas official insisted, "It's our right to tell our children what we want."

[one_american]

Terrorists train their children to murder innocent civilians, and the moonbat liberals want to blame Israel.

This is pure evil, people.

Throw the damned Dr. Spock book out the window; it's time to spank the child!

[ajmarine1]

From an interview with Hamas leader by NEWSWEEK;

"In a rare interview with an American news organiation, the Damascus-based Meshal, Hamas's most powerful figure, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Kevin Peraino about the war report and the chances for peace."

Excerpt:

I believe (Pelosi's recent visit to Syria) was a step in the right direction. Wise people in the U.S. should realize that Israel and the fundamentalist American conservative right have both become burdens on the interests and the future of America."

Hamas says "Vote Democrat."

[feelfree1]

Re: "Terrorists train their children to murder innocent civilians"

True. Iraeli terrorists seem to do this all the time. It is disgusting, but what else would we expect from the Israelis.

www.informationliberation.com/?id=13453

[feelfree1]

Re: "Terrorists train their children to murder innocent civilians"

True. Iraeli terrorists seem to do this all the time. It is disgusting, but what else would we expect from the Israelis.

www.informationliberation.com/?id=13453

[feelfree1]

Re: "Terrorists train their children to murder innocent civilians"

True. Iraeli terrorists seem to do this all the time. It is disgusting, but what else would we expect from the Israelis.

www.informationliberation.com/?id=13453

[gkc99]

So when is Pluto going to be sent over to p*** on "Mickey's" head? Kelev tov--good dog!

[one_american]

FeelFree1:

My guess is you are a 12 year old, or simply have the moonbat mentality of a 12 year old.

Grow up.

[one_american]

EXCERPT FROM HAMAS PROGRAM:

Farfur: %u201CWe are setting with you the cornerstone for world leadership under Islamic leadership. Isn%u2019t it so, Saraa%u2019?%u201D

Saraa%u2019: %u201CYes, our beloved children.%u201D

Farfur: %u201CYou must be careful regarding your prayer and to go to the mosque for all five [daily] prayers. I say, in the mosque and in the first rows, until we can lead the world.%u201D

Saraa%u2019: %u201CWe remind you that we, the great ones, started this program to lead this world. The nucleus, with the will of Allah, will be from here, from Palestine. We will carry the concern of this [Islamic] nation that awaits us.%u201D

Farfur: %u201CFrom Palestine, oh Saraa%u2019, what do you mean? From Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah, or from all of Palestine?%u201D

Saraa%u2019: %u201CYes, from all of Palestine" [i.e., includes Israel %u2013editors].

Farfur: %u201CIf so, my beloved young ones, with the will of Allah, we will lead the nation from here, from Palestine.%u201D

Saraa%u2019: %u201COur beloved children, many say that we had glory [in the past], and we had culture, and the Muslims had greatness and respect. But with the will of Allah, we, tomorrow%u2019s pioneers, will restore the glory of this nation.%u201D

[feelfree1]

One_American,

Re: "My guess is you are a 12 year old, or simply have the moonbat mentality of a 12 year old."

You should probably leave the analysis to people whose conclusions are no so consistantly wrong. If you choose to read and learn occasionally, you might not make uch a fool out of yourself so frequently.

[one_american]

FeelFree1:

I trust no one else to make my analysis, much less a mental midget like yourself, moonbat.

Go sell crazy somewhere else. This board is all stocked up.

[boo707shay]

While I agree that religious fundamentalist kooks, whether christian or muslim, are full of baloney, I can't help but wonder: how is this different from our own g.i. joe indoctrination propaganda? The results are the same; dead civilians.

[on_alert247]

Right Boo707Shay,
Christians are constantly bombing embassies, exploding car bombs, themselves and killing in the name of Jihad.
Better to be thought a fool than to write and remove all doubt.

[incog-nito]

It looks like a cheaply made reject, something I would hesitate to donate to a local shelter. What a bunch of jokers.

[incog-nito]

It looks like a cheaply made reject, something I would hesitate to donate to a local shelter. What a bunch of jokers.

[boo707shay]

alarmed 247: all of those things are wrong and terrible and I oppose them entirely. None of them however, make those who disagree with their perpatrators, 100% righteous or just. sorry, neither your beliefs nor theirs automatically make either of your positions moral or correct.

[incog-nito]

It looks like a cheaply made reject, something I would hesitate to donate to a local shelter. What a bunch of jokers.

[boo707shay]

alarmed 247: all of those things are wrong and terrible and I oppose them entirely. None of them however, make those who disagree with their perpatrators, 100% righteous or just. sorry, neither your beliefs nor theirs automatically make either of your positions moral or correct.

[zootallures2]

This is hardly as bad as "24" or "300". And what about all the anti-Russian cartoons of the 60's? Why single out Hamas? All countries do this stuff. The US is actually the worst propaganda media ever. It is it's only purpose on every channel and every second of video.

Still, Hamas needs to add a cheapskate, oil rich uncle to the show...LOL!

[incog-nito]

Using a blatant rip-off of a Western product to preach hate against the West, is the height of stupidity and hypocrisy.

[johnshaft4]

Zionist William Kristol has his "Weakly (Sub)Standard" to extoll his right wing, war mongering Israeli Likud Party war propaganda aimed at Muslims, so what's wrong with parity?

[bluestardad]

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICAN INTEREST! QUIT PROMOTING IT!

It is not anti Semitic to believe there are millions of other good people in the Middle East with valid concerns! 50 years of bleeding, and buying support for Israel is enough! Play nice or America is leaving the Entire Middle East!

Even Eisenhower had problems with Israeli groups but he did not let them buy him!

READ AS THEY BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE ON OUR GOVERNMENT!
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm


Founded in 1953 by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, AIPAC's original name was the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. According to UCLA political science professor and author, Steven Spiegel, "the tension between the Eisenhower administration and Israeli supporters was so acute that there were rumors that the administration would investigate the American Zionist Council. Therefore, an independent lobbying committee was formed, which years later was renamed [AIPAC]." [SPIEGEL, p. 52].[citation needed] Today, AIPAC has over 100,000 members.[1]
It regularly meets with members of Congress and holds events where it can share its views. AIPAC has been effective in gaining support for Israel among members of Congress and White House administrations.
The New York Times described AIPAC on July 6, 1987 as "a major force in shaping United States policy in the Middle East."

[bluestardad]

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICAN INTEREST! QUIT PROMOTING IT!

It is not anti Semitic to believe there are millions of other good people in the Middle East with valid concerns! 50 years of bleeding, and buying support for Israel is enough! Play nice or America is leaving the Entire Middle East!

Even Eisenhower had problems with Israeli groups but he did not let them buy him!

READ AS THEY BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE ON OUR GOVERNMENT!
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm


Founded in 1953 by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, AIPAC's original name was the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. According to UCLA political science professor and author, Steven Spiegel, "the tension between the Eisenhower administration and Israeli supporters was so acute that there were rumors that the administration would investigate the American Zionist Council. Therefore, an independent lobbying committee was formed, which years later was renamed [AIPAC]." [SPIEGEL, p. 52].[citation needed] Today, AIPAC has over 100,000 members.[1]
It regularly meets with members of Congress and holds events where it can share its views. AIPAC has been effective in gaining support for Israel among members of Congress and White House administrations.
The New York Times described AIPAC on July 6, 1987 as "a major force in shaping United States policy in the Middle East."

[closethippy]

REMINDER: In June of this year the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza will be 40 years old.
REMINDER: The reason this brutal occupation just goes on and on and on is because the Palestinians have been unable to satisfy the demands made by Israel to prove to the Israelis the Palestinians are worthy of the same rights everyone else in the world are born into.
In the meantime, Israelis have used this as a pretext to confiscate land, demolish homes, use Palestinians for target practice, emprison them and torture them, and empty machine guns in the guts of 13 year old kids whenever an Israeli soldier is having a bad day.
Israel claims International Law doesn't apply to the Palestinians, nor do Israeli laws apply to them either. Therefore, Palestinians are fair game for any and all Israelis who want them dead, or want the Palestinians' land.
So whatever the Palestinians do, whatever they say JUST DOESN'T MATTER. It only matters as far as it can be used for propaganda purposes against the Palestinians.
So, you see, the fake Mickey Mouse is the least of the problems here.

[inventagod2]

No different than using the village idiot to inflame US adults into war using the lies around 9/11...
Propaganda and censorship are age-old tools of the powerful against the innocent.

[inventagod2]

The Pentagoons used a village idiot to inflame US adults into invading Iraq. They used lies about the 9/11 demolitions and yellowcake to cover their real intentions.
Propaganda and censorship are the tools of the powerful against the innocent.

[bareemperor]

Much like using a village idiot to inflame US adults to invade Iraq.
Lying thru the controlled media has always been a tool of the powerful against the innocent.
Who still believes that a cave-dweller was able to defeat the entire US military?

[bareemperor]

Jeeze - the C-BS boards are beginning to act like the old Yahoo boards.
Same glitches, leading to multiple posts.
Guess we know where those laid-off Yahoo employees now work.

Sorry about the multiples, not spamming. The Publish Button works in mysterious ways....

[ajmarine1]

inventagod,

"No different than using the village idiot to inflame US adults using the lies about 9/11."

Children believe what they are told, they do not have the capacity to think and reason for themselves as do adults.

If President Bush is such a fool, idiot, moron,and village idiot, how could he be smart enought to fool all of congress; and that be the only time is given any credit for being smart?

[bluestardad]

Bush administration said she is undermining the situation in Lebanon what a hypocrite!
Now here is the real kicker! President Bush is funding Al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! This is Impeachment and Treason!

Here is the proof Read it!
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh

It is not anti Semitic to believe that there are other good people in the Middle East and they should have a voice! You can see by the AIPAC advertisement below this PAC is selling influence to American Elected officials. If you follow the money trail you will find that most of those elected officials who support the war in Iraq are under the influence of AIPAC.

http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm

[rational_1]

Altogether now...

M I C K E Y M O U boom

[boo707shay]

AJMarine1: When criminals use their intelligence to decieve, and do so well, it still doesn't make their crimes good ideas. When a criminal steals your car because you weren't vigilant enough, then crashes the car and injures themselves and their passengers during their escape and are caught, is that perpetrator stupid, or intelligent because they were able to deceive you? I would tend to judge the criminal more on the latter, disasterous part of the act, not on the fact that they were able to pull a fast one on you. Why would you support giving the hard earned taxes of the people of your own country to one who flouts international law and treaties and refuses to find a peaceful solutions to it's conflicts with it's neighbors, even if those neighbors are desperate and foolish enough to use chuck-e-cheese's image in vain? No amount of finger pointing at the negative, wrong actions of the oppressed, makes their oppressors the good guys or worthy of our tax dollars. My money needs to stay here not be spent on concocted threats, to enrich enron/halliburton types, or to protect some apartheid colonization project in some friggin kitty litter box halfway across the world. I'd be interested to hear what you'd think if the Chinese occupied the US, took all the good lands and gave them back to the Native Americans and packed you onto a small reservation with barely any good resources would you resist would you then have a cheap chuck-e-cheese knock-off preach your ideology?

[drummer94]

"It's our right to tell our children what we want"- Hamas official. You want your children growing up in a never-ending,hate-filled world? Where all they experience is age-old hatred for ,what was it for? You have been handed down your mess. It has to stop somewhere.

[omega39-2009]

"Mr. Rat. I have a writ here that says you're to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat and this is lawful service of same." - From True Grit

[rhs648]

"In the meantime, Israelis have used this as a pretext to confiscate land, demolish homes, use Palestinians for target practice, emprison them and torture them, and empty machine guns in the guts of 13 year old kids whenever an Israeli soldier is having a bad day."

The Palestinians murder innocent people, Israelis and their own, yet believe they should be treated as the civilized people they aren't. What fluff! When will they build better futures for their children? Instead, teach them murder and hate. The Palestinians can't even make it in their own territory.

[ajmarine1]

Boo707Shay,

I gotta go, so I don't have time to complete this conversation.

I think everyone in the Middle East should choose up sides, declare war, and winner take all. I'm tired of hearing about the Middle East.

When you talk about the Chinese and giving back the US to the Indians; they are not Palestinian lands, how many people have claimed the Middle East as "theirs?" the Palestians are just the latest to claim the land.

Gotta go.

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,,, You've got your ideaology interfering with correct history of the region ---- David slew Goliath who was a Palistinian.... Palistianians controled the country before King David.

[feelfree1]

Re: "Israeli columnist Gideon Levy told Roth, "A child in Gaza does not need a cartoon in order to hate the occupation, to hate Israel. He opens his eyes in the morning and he sees reality around him."

Great point!

[closethippy]

REMINDER: In June of this year the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza will be 40 years old.
REMINDER: The reason this brutal occupation just goes on and on and on is because the Palestinians have been unable to satisfy the demands made by Israel to prove to the Israelis the Palestinians are worthy of the same rights everyone else in the world are born into.
In the meantime, Israelis have used this as a pretext to confiscate land, demolish homes, use Palestinians for target practice, emprison them and torture them, and empty machine guns in the guts of 13 year old kids whenever an Israeli soldier is having a bad day.
Israel claims International Law doesn't apply to the Palestinians, nor do Israeli laws apply to them either. Therefore, Palestinians are fair game for any and all Israelis who want them dead, or want the Palestinians' land.
So whatever the Palestinians do, whatever they say JUST DOESN'T MATTER. It only matters as far as it can be used for propaganda purposes against the Palestinians.
So, you see, the fake Mickey Mouse is the least of the problems here.

[closethippy]

REMINDER: In June of this year the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza will be 40 years old.
REMINDER: The reason this brutal occupation just goes on and on and on is because the Palestinians have been unable to satisfy the demands made by Israel to prove to the Israelis the Palestinians are worthy of the same rights everyone else in the world are born into.
In the meantime, Israelis have used this as a pretext to confiscate land, demolish homes, use Palestinians for target practice, emprison them and torture them, and empty machine guns in the guts of 13 year old kids whenever an Israeli soldier is having a bad day.
Israel claims International Law doesn't apply to the Palestinians, nor do Israeli laws apply to them either. Therefore, Palestinians are fair game for any and all Israelis who want them dead, or want the Palestinians' land.
So whatever the Palestinians do, whatever they say JUST DOESN'T MATTER. It only matters as far as it can be used for propaganda purposes against the Palestinians.
So, you see, the fake Mickey Mouse is the least of the problems here.

[p-syrus]

Despite a rival Palestinian faction's effort to censor the show, a Hamas official insisted, "It's our right to tell our children what we want."


That sentiment is fully in keeping with that of most people in the u.s.. It is ESPECIALLY prevalent among those who openly bray of their "christian" convictions.

It is and has been a guarantor of the perpetuation of ignorance, hatred, and the complete denial of reasoned open discourse in human societies since time immemorial.

What is the basis for "the right to indoctrinate children"?

[rhs648]

"Re: "Israeli columnist Gideon Levy told Roth, "A child in Gaza does not need a cartoon in order to hate the occupation, to hate Israel. He opens his eyes in the morning and he sees reality around him."

The Israelis, too, have people who always blame their own country first for all of the world's problems. Gideon Levy would probably change his tune quickly if he were the victim of a kidnapping, suicide bombing, or looking at the barrel of a Palestinia gun.

[iceman_1960]

"Counter-terrorism experts say that Osama bin Laden may be hiding secret messages on pornographic websites. You know what that means, don't you ? Bill Clinton could find this guy before Bush."

- Jay Leno

[agnim]

"Hamas "Mickey Mouse" Back On The Air"

This is so funny. LMAO

And all the fuss about nothing. LOL

All this effort to impose western culture on people to undermine their own is taking a new and creative twist; using mickey in reverse propaganda.
I love it. Ha ha ha. LOL

[incog-nito]

If these people hate the West so much maybe they should stop using western products, starting with this Mickey Mouse copycat. How about also television, the Internet, the automobile, firearms of any kind.

[incog-nito]

If these people hate the West so much maybe they should stop using western products, starting with this Mickey Mouse copycat. How about also television, the Internet, the automobile, firearms of any kind.

[incog-nito]

If these people hate the West so much maybe they should stop using western products, starting with this Mickey Mouse copycat. How about also television, the Internet, the automobile, firearms of any kind. Seems like that's what they want to do anyway.

[rhs648]

"All this effort to impose western culture on people to undermine their own is taking a new and creative twist; using mickey in reverse propaganda.
I love it. Ha ha ha. LOL"

Posted by Agnim

As they teach hate, murder, and intolerance to their children. Real Funny!

[colonieny]

Here's all of Gaza. It's yours. What do they do ? Set up hotels ? Establish Universities ? Start farmining. NO. Begin to shell innocent Israeli citizens with rockets.
the Isreali even left behind computers, and farm equipment as a sign of good will, millions of $ worth, all destroyed. Well, what do you expect ?
The Evil that now catches the media's eye has been ongoing. Nothing new.

[wolf563]

The M.E. is very much like our Wild West was without laws until the army established control and put bounties on the heads of all who killed needlessly . The same must be done here . This was said to me by a 10 yr old while watching the news . This is so close to the truth about the region and sounded like a good idea . That 10 yr old is now looking for a way to stop hating and has made friends with the kids that he was at odds with for yrs . I`m proud to say that some good has come from all this *** in the M.E. It is teaching our children how lucky they are to live freely and without fear of being shot for disagreeing with anothers opinion .

[rushman71]

"We don't incite. We present facts," said al-Sharawi. "We can't cut off our children from the reality they live everyday."

He said he repeated the words "love" and "peace" six times during the show.

"We have an educational and entertainment message. It carries knowledge, a sense of humor and morality. There is no shame in this, and we will not go back on it," he said.

Was this guy smoking crack? Let's see, teaching kids to hate Israelies, but also love and peace towards everyone. Hmmmmm. Does not make sense at all.