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Hamas TV show abuses animals

The latest episode of a popular Hamas children’s TV show features its main character cruelly swinging cats by their tails and throwing stones at caged lions in the Gaza zoo.

The episode of Tomorrow’s Pioneers features a costumed adult playing Nahool the Bee at the zoo, tormenting domestic cats and lions. The lions become so enraged by the abuse that one of them repeatedly tries to attack Nahool.

Every time Nahool swings a cat by the tail, an act that can cause permanent physical and behavior problems for the animal, children can be heard bursting into laughter.

Ironically, the decision to terrorize and inflict physical pain on real animals in the episode is an attempt to teach children not to abuse animals. When the program returns to the studio, the children in the audience criticize Nahool for his behavior, and he is told never to do it again.

NOTE: Nahool is the character that replaced Farfur, the Mickey Mouse clone that was killed off in response to widespread international outrage that a knockoff of the lovable Walt Disney character was teaching children about hatred and world Islamic domination.

I got this from PMW, who have pics at that link. Here’s the YouTube video:

Since I’m sure the YouTube censorship posse has little tolerance for animal abuse, here’s the link to the same video at the PMW website – click here

Hamas bans popular TV talk show

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The Hamas Ministry of Information on Wednesday ordered the Ramattan News Agency and Media Services to stop broadcasting a popular TV show that dealt with the current situation in the Gaza Strip.

Full Article (Jerusalem Post)

If you know anything about totalitarian governments, you know that:

1. You don’t question the government. EVER.

2. The government controls the media. How else can you put an end to independent thought?

Things are going to get a lot worse for the Palestinian people before they get better…if they get better.

Watering Down the Hate

Remember Nahoul? Well, here’s al-Jazeera’s take:

Yikes!

Think Israel

I don’t know. I already have a problem with racy commercials I feel awkward watching in mixed company, but there’s something about it being an Israel tourism promotion that makes it worse!

Blood libels on Hamas TV

source: http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_jul2007.htm#b220707

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The promotion of hatred of Jews through their depiction as cold-blooded murderers is a recurring theme on Hamas TV. Over the weekend at least 2 broadcasts presented these images.

One was during the latest episode of the children’s program with Nahool the Hamas Bee, in which Nahool twice reminds the children that the Jews are guilty of murder.

The following are excepts:

Nahool: “You and we will liberate the sad Al-Aqsa that is waiting for us. Yes, we will liberate Al-Aqsa from the filth of the criminal Jews, who killed my grandfather, and killed Farfur, and history will bear witness to that…”

A young caller, Sabah, is asked what she wants to be when she grows up.
Sabah: “Journalist.”
Saraa’, girl in studio: “Wow, journalist! Nahool, we need journalists.”
Nahool: “Why? So that… so that they will photograph the Jews when they are killing Farfur and the little children?
Saraa’: “Yes, Nahool.”
Another young caller says: “We will go on [the path] of Jihad when we grow up.”
Nahool: “Yes, we are all Jihad warriors.
Saraa’: “Allah willing.”
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 20, 2007]

The killing of Farfur referred to by Nahool, the bee, was from a previous episode when beloved Farfur, the Mickey Mouse look-alike, was beaten to death by an Israeli interrogator.

In an unusual propaganda technique that could only be effective with young children, it is this beating “death” that was created on their own TV that is now being used as a reason to see Jews as murderers. In an earlier program a child called in and insisted the Jews were dogs because they killed Farfur. So the propaganda may be working.

The second murder by Jews over the weekend on Hamas owned Al-Aqsa Television [July 22, 2007] shows a child running with an adult, presumably with his father, until the adult is shot in the back. The child seems to ignore the dead father but takes the key the father was holding – implying it is the key to their home in Israel.

Previously on Tomorrow’s Pioneers, Nahool said: “We shall avenge the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets [i.e., the Jews], the murderers of innocent children, until Al-Aqsa will be liberated from their filth.” [Al Aqsa TV, July 13, 2007]

Also previously on the children’s program, a three year old caller went on air saying the Jews killed Farfur. The hostess of the show, Saraa’, replied: “That’s right… The Jews are criminals and enemies, we must expel them from our land.” [Al-Aqsa TV, June 27, 2007]

Well, Farfur may be dead…

…, but luckily his cousin, Nahoul the Bee, has stepped up to continue the hate on Palestinian TV.

Edit: I’m leaving the MEMRI link above, mostly because YouTube is unpredictable, but PMW has posted this clip there: