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Palestinian Hamas takes Mickey
The real thing. But Hamas' Farfur is strikingly similar A TV station run by Palestinian militant group Hamas is using a cartoon rodent in the image of Disney's Mickey Mouse to carry its political message.

The black-and-white character called Farfur appears on the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers on al-Aqsa TV.

An Israeli media monitoring group said Farfur was teaching "Islamic supremacy and hatred of Israel and the US".

Palestinian Broadcasting, controlled by Hamas' political rival Fatah, said Farfur was not "professional".

The corporation's Abu Sumaya told the Associated Press news agency: "Children's nationalist spirit must be developed differently.

"I don't think it's professional or even humane to use children in such harsh political programmes."

Hamas shares political power in the Palestinian Authority with Fatah but refuses to accept Israel's right to exist.

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In a recent episode, AP reported, Farfur said: "We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing."

The Israeli organisation, Palestinian Media Watch, said the character took "every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy".

The group says Farfur has a female companion character called Saraa who reminds children about Palestinian prisoners.

"Allah will ask us on Resurrection Day what we gave for their sake," she says.

The television station has not replied to the accusations and Walt Disney has not yet commented on any copyright infringements.

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The Hamas Television is using a clone of Disneys Mickey Mouse to teach children to hate Israel and America, and aspire to Islams inevitable and impending world domination.

The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike, named Farfur, is the star of a weekly childrens program called Tomorrows Pioneers on the official Hamas TV station (Al-Aqsa TV). Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa, teach children about such things as the importance of the daily prayers and drinking milk, while taking every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US and support of resistance the Palestinian euphemism for terror.

Farfur tells children that they must pray in the mosque five times a day until there is world leadership under Islamic leadership. The earnest and soft-spoken Saraa explains that the nucleus of this world Islamic leadership will be from all of Palestine, i.e., including Israel. Farfur refers to Israel as the oppressive invading Zionist occupation, which the children must resist. [snip]

The writing in this show is quite sophisticated. Farfurs performance is unquestionably funny and entertaining, as is the characters comic timing. For example, as he rhymes off a list of world figures, he chirps: We will win, Bush! We will win, Condoleezza! We will win, Sharon! Then, without missing a beat, he quips, Ah, Sharon is dead (sic), reinforcing his message that the plan for world domination is progressing.

Using a character based on an appealing, world famous and beloved icon like Mickey Mouse to teach Islamic supremacy and resistance as Islamic duty is a powerful and effective way to indoctrinate children. (more at Hamas steals Mickey Mouse image to teach hate and Islamic supremacy, by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch)

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Using children in such a way is not new .... just about everyone knows that if you can get a child to like your product ... then you have a customer for life

Every one does it .... from the government to the trucking industry .... " Trucker Buddies "

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Trucker buddies?

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Defiant Hamas TV airs resistance Mickey again



Hamas-run television defied Israel and the Palestinian government on Friday by airing a controversial children's show with a Mickey Mouse lookalike preaching resistance and Islamic domination. Israel and Jewish groups have slammed the Al-Aqsa television channel for allowing the copycat mouse "Farfur" and a girl co-star to urge resistance against Israel and the United States, and for its overtly Islamist message. Padded out with Islamic songs and calling cities in Israel part of Palestine, Friday's episode apparently sought to prepare children for their end-of-year examinations. Asked by an Al-Aqsa reporter why he looked around to see what his friends were writing, Farfur -- whose name means butterfly -- answered: "Because the Jews destroyed my home and I left my books and notes under the rubble." "I'm calling on all children to read more and more to prepare for exams because the Jews don't want us to learn," said Farfur who failed the test. Broadcast weekly for an hour, the show also featured a short film recalling the anguish of little girl Huda Ghalya, whose family was killed on a Gaza beach last June in a blast for which Israel denied responsibility. "Anyone who wants to go to the sea will be killed," said Farfur. "Yes Farfur, but also they killed her family because we are Palestinian," interjected reporter Hazem Sharawi, before calling for Islamic rule and for Spain to be returned to Muslim rule as after the 8th century Moorish invasion. "Palestine will return free and Andalus will return soon. Hello Egypt, Damascus and Algeria. Islam will return for all whole world," he said. Friday's show also taught tomorrow's pioneers that the cities of Jaffa, Haifa and Acre, in modern-day Israel, in addition to Jerusalem, belong to their country. Songs are sung about Palestine and about facing the enemy. Friday's broadcast came after the Palestinian information ministry asked Al-Aqsa to withdraw the programme for review, but minister Mustafa Barghuti said he would reserve judgement until watching the latest installment. "They have said they will change it and improve it, and we will see," he told AFP. Earlier this week, Barghuthi said the programme had adopted a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and that it was wrong to use children's programmes to convey political messages. On Thursday, the chairman of the Al-Aqsa board, Fathi Hamad, refused to bow to pressure to cull the programme or to doctor its content, slamming an Israeli and Western plan "to attack Islam and the Palestinian cause". Hamas is the senior partner in the Palestinian national unity government and is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation in the West. The Islamist movement controls a television and radio network both called Al-Aqsa and has just launched a newspaper.

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