By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch | July 23, 2007
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.
Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website
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. [Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website or to see original bulletin.] 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]
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