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Posted May 16, 2007

A Mickey Mouse lookalike named Farfour teaches Palestinian children how to hate on Al-Aqsa TV.

Hamas 'Mickey' Cancelled

Hamas' Mickey Mouse: Teaching Kids to Hate and Kill

by Gil Ronen

Hamas TV has a new children's show which features a Mickey Mouse lookalike. But this Mickey does not romp about with Pluto, nor does he woo Minnie Mouse. Instead – he teaches his young viewers to fight the "Zionist Occupation" and dream of a world dominated by Islam.

The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike, named Farfur, is the star of a weekly children’s program called Tomorrow’s Pioneers on the official Hamas TV station (Al-Aqsa TV), which broadcasts from Gaza via satellite to the entire Arab world.

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, but also instruct them to hate Israel and the US and support "resistance" – a 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 the Islamic leadership of the world will be from “all of Palestine,” including Israel. Farfur refers to Israel as “the oppressive invading Zionist occupation,” which the children must "resist."

Saraa’ announces that after death, the children will have to answer to Allah for what they did or did not do for the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and for Palestinian prisoners: “I remind you that Al-Aqsa and the prisoners are a responsibility on our shoulders, and Allah will ask us on Resurrection Day what we gave for their sake," she tells the tots viewing the show.

According to Palestinian Media Watch, "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."

The program encourages participation by child viewers, who phone in to the show and recite poems with images of hate and violence; for example, “We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death,” and, in another poem, "Rafah sings ‘Oh, oh.’ Its answer is an AK-47. We who do not know fear, we are the predators of the forest."

Hamas' latest conquest: The Walt Disney Co.

Hamas' latest conquest: The Walt Disney Co.
By Bradley Burston
For decades, The Walt Disney Company was known for superhuman tenacity in fighting unauthorized use of its trademark characters.

It was a policy that bordered on the fanatical. To keep its bottomless inventory of universally familiar mice, ducks, dogs, dwarves, villains, sleeping princesses, singing mermaids, Lost Boys and others from endorsing any product or ideology lacking the explicit and prior consent of the Magic Kingdom, the company would go anywhere and do anything, it seemed, sparing no expense or effort.

Until now. Until Hamas.

In recent weeks, when a Mickey Mouse stretch-clone named Farfour began hosting a children's program on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa Television, gently suggesting that the station's youngest viewers take up assault rifles and fight against Israel, the protests came in fast and furious.

But not from Disney.

"Hamas has long used programs aimed at young children to raise a new generation of terrorists," the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement, noting that "an infamous 1998 episode of the program the Children's Club on official Palestinian Authority television had a Mickey Mouse-type figure amidst children praising suicide terrorist attacks against Israelis."

Farfour, whose name means butterfly, used a high-pitched Mickeyesque voice to get his message across. "You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," Farfour told the audience of his "Tomorrow's Pioneers" program."

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."

Even Palestinians thought the show inappropriate. Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti said the character represented a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation. He said the show would be taken off the air "for review."

Two days later, however, the show went on as scheduled. In one sequence, Farfour explained that he cheated on his tests in school because "the Jews destroyed my house," and he had lost his books under the rubble.Of the myriad responses, certainly the most striking was that of the Disney company. It said nothing.

Even when the ADL wrote to Robert A. Iger, president & CEO of The Walt Disney Company, urging him to use his company's influence to put a stop "to this egregious and outrageous abuse of your intellectual property, which certainly stands in stark contrast to everything the Walt Disney Company represents," the company sat on its hands.

For nearly two weeks, Disney said nothing, did nothing, held meetings, held still more meetings. The only policy they appeared to adopt was a refusal to return calls asking for comment.

Only this week did the company choose to publicly comment on the show. "We were appalled by the use of our character to disseminate that kind of message," Iger told a meeting of the Society of Business Editors and Writers at the Disneyland Hotel. "I think any time any group seeks to exploit children in that manner, it's despicable."

But Iger added that Disney decided against making a public statement at the time. "We didn't mobilize our forces and seek to either have the clip taken down or to make any broad public statement about it," he said.

"I just didn't think it would have any effect," he continued. "I think it should have been obvious how the company felt about the subject."

So, for The Walt Disney Company and Robert Iger, this word of advice from Hamas' own corner of the world, and a warning:

There is only one way to fight Hamas. You have to be very smart, and very fierce.

If you are smart, but not fierce, Hamas will win.

If you are fierce, but not smart, Hamas will win.

If, however, you are neither smart nor fierce, and, as such, do nothing, you will have done more than merely help Hamas to a victory.

You will have made yourself a target.

NEW PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS: A RELIGIOUS DUTY TO DESTROY ISRAEL

New York -- Newly-published Palestinian textbooks for schools students in the Palestinian Authority (PA) teach that hating and working to destroy Israel is a religious duty, and it is against Islam to recognize Israel, according to a new report published by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The new PA schoolbooks were devised and written by Fatah-appointed officials at the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula, which is directed by former PA Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Naim Abu Al-Humos and formally released by that department.

In one of the new PA textbooks, 'Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism,' the authors write of the 1948 war, "Palestine's war ended with a catastrophe that is unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the State of Israel." The PMW report comments on this passage that "defining Israel's founding as a 'catastrophe unprecedented in history,' a theft perpetrated by 'Zionist gangs,' together with numerous other hateful descriptions of Israel as 'colonial imperialist' and 'racist,' compounded by the presentation of the conflict as a religious war, leaves no latitude for students to have positive or even neutral attitudes towards Israel. The well-meaning student is left with no logical justification or religious option to accept Israel as a neighbor or to seek coexistence" (Jerusalem Post , March 19).

The new PA textbooks were presented yesterday by PMW to the Education Committee of the Knesset, after which Committee Chairman Michael Melchior (Labor-Meimad) said, "You can't have agreements while this kind of hatred is inculcated in the children … I intend to demand from Prime Minister [Ehud Olmert] that he present the findings to Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] at their next meeting." The PMW Director, Itamar Marcus, said of these new textbooks teach essentially that "the war over this land is a war for Muslim land, and will end only with the resurrection of the dead. [The books teach that] recognition of Israel is forbidden by religion."

According to the PMW Report, the schoolbooks, the products of the official education arm of the PA, written by Fatah-appointed officials at the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and published by the PA Ministry of Higher Education, are also used by schools in eastern Jerusalem that are under the jurisdiction of – and receive funding from – Israel's Education Ministry. Shlomo Alon, the deputy head of the Pedagogic Secretariat in Israel's Education Ministry, told the lawmakers the ministry would cut funding for schools found using them. MK Zeev Elkin (Kadima) called on the government to put in place "sanctions against the PA for such violations [of the Oslo Accords]," which he called "more dangerous than security violations in the long run" (Jerusalem Post, March 20).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "As this latest PMW study shows, the PA, even those departments of it that remain under the control of Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah, promotes, lauds and encourages terrorism, extremism and hate, making the prospect of peace an impossibility. All the elections, negotiations and concessions in the world will not bring peace so long as the Palestinian Arabs' educational system is based on promotion of hatred and violence against Jews and Israel. If in fact a Palestinian state would be established, it would only strengthen the ability of this terrorist PA regime to promote their frightening policies.

"As with last year's report on PA textbooks from the Intelligence and Terrorism Center , these finding demonstrate that no change for the better has taken place in Palestinian education over the past few years. On the contrary, the Palestinian educational curriculum continues to inculcate rejection of Israel and the intention of one day destroying her. The PA educational curriculum is but one example among many why the PA, especially now that there is a Hamas/Fatah unity government built on a extremist platform (the Mecca Agreement) which said nothing about peace, reconciliation, renouncing terrorism or anything else essential to peace, should be ineligible for any foreign aid until it meets its obligations under the signed Oslo agreements and the 2003 Roadmap peace plan, including that of ending incitement to hatred and murder.

"The ZOA again strongly urges the Bush Administration to cut ties to the PA, including Mahmoud Abbas, and to cease all aid to this regime or any part of it."

New Palestinian High School Textbooks Reject Existence of Israel, Peace

New textbooks for 12th-grade Palestinian students reject the existence of Israel and make no attempt to educate students about peace or coexistence, according to Palestinian Media Watch. The textbooks were written by the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and introduced by the PA at the end of 2006. The textbooks define Israel's founding as a theft perpetrated by "Zionist gangs," describe Israel as "colonial imperialist" and "racist," present the conflict as a religious war, and leave "no latitude for students to have positive or even neutral attitudes toward Israel," wrote PMW's Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in a February report. "Maps of the region likewise teach children to visualize a world without Israel, as Israel does not exist on any map and its area is marked as 'Palestine.'" (Ha'aretz)

New Palestinian high-school textbooks reject existence of Israel, peace

By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent

New textbooks for 12th-grade Palestinian students reject the existence of Israel and make no attempt to educate students about peace or coexistence, according to Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that monitors Palestinian Arabic-language media and schoolbooks.

The primary findings of the report will be presented to the Knesset Education and Culture Committee today.

"The teachings repeatedly reject Israel's right to exist, present the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, teach Israel's founding as imperialism, and actively portray a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all," the group wrote in a February report entitled "From nationalist battle to religious conflict: New 12th Grade Palestinian schoolbooks present a world without Israel."

According to the report, the book describes the establishment of the State of Israel by saying: "Palestine's war [in 1948] ended with a catastrophe unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the State of Israel."

The textbooks were written by the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and introduced by the Palestinian Authority at the end of 2006, according to the report.

"Defining Israel's founding as a 'catastrophe unprecedented in history,' a theft perpetrated by 'Zionist gangs,' together with numerous other hateful descriptions of Israel as 'colonial imperialist' and 'racist,' compounded by the presentation of the conflict as a religious war, leaves no latitude for students to have positive or even neutral attitudes toward Israel," write PMW director Itamar Marcus and associate director Barbara Crook in the report.

Marcus and Crook note that Israel does not exist in the maps printed in the textbook.

Four-year-old girl vows to be suicide terrorist in Hamas TV dramatization

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

March 21,2007

Hamas TV broadcast today a video dramatization of the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi singing to her dead mother and vowing to follow in her footsteps. The video clip ends as the little girl picks up sticks of explosives from her mother's drawer.

The Al Aqsa TV children's program shows a child actress playing the daughter, watching Riyashi preparing the bomb and asking her mother, "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me? A toy or a present for me?" She later sees a TV news story about her mother's suicide mission and death, and realizes her mother had been carrying a bomb.

"Only now, I know what was more precious than us . . . " she sings of the bomb.

Although she misses her mother, she vows to follow in her footsteps. The video ends as she opens her mother's drawer and picks up the sticks of explosives her mother had left there.

Background:
Reem Riyashi killed four Israelis and wounded seven at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel in 2004. She gained the sympathy of the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint by telling them that she had a metal plate in her leg that would trigger the metal detector. After she was taken to a room to be searched privately, she detonated the bomb hidden under her clothes.

Go to: www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_mamareem2007.asx

The following is the text of the song that Duha, Reem's daughter, sings to her mother:

[Daughter sees mother preparing explosives sticks]

"Mommy, what are you carrying
in your arms instead of me?

[Mother turns to hide bomb]

A toy or a present for me?...
Mommy Reem!
Why did you put on your veil?
Are you going out, Mommy?...
Come back quickly, Mommy
I can't sleep without you,
unless you tell me and Ubaydah [her brother] a bedtime story.

[Daughter sees mother's picture and news story about bombing on PA TV]

My mother, my mother,
Me and Ubaydah are awake and waiting for you
to come to put us to sleep.
Me and Ubaydah, oh Mommy,
still need you to wipe our tears...
Instead of me you carried a bomb in your hands.
Only now, I know what was more precious than us...
May your steps be blessed,
and may you be flawless for Jerusalem.
Me and Ubaydah wish we were there with you.

[Images of her mother's grave and the graves of other terrorists,
including Aayat Al-Akhras, 17-year-old female suicide terrorist]

Send greetings to our Messenger [Muhammad] and tell him:
'Duha loves you.'
My love will not be [merely] words.
I am following Mommy in her steps.

[Finds explosives that mother left in her drawer,
picks up stick of explosives]

Oh Mommy, oh Mommy."

Click here to see the video clip

Please feel free to forward this bulletin, crediting Palestinian Media Watch

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VISIT PMW VIDEO ARCHIVES

	Incitement of children to Shahada		Teaching hatred with music
	Children as combatants in PA ideology		Denying Israel's right to exist
	Hamas in its own words		Support for terrorism
	Understanding Shahada		Mothers joy at sons' Shahada
	Hatred of America and the West		Holocaust denial
	Clarifying history		Arab world TV

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