The Palestinian Authority's Mickey Mouse - Farfur, in Arabic - may be dead, but his message of violence against Jews continues on Hamas children's television, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports. For over two months this year, Farfur appeared on a weekly Hamas TV program, teaching children throughout the Palestinian Authority and the entire Arab world to hate and kill Jews. The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse clone starred on a show called Tomorrow’s Pioneers , broadcast by satellite from Gaza on the official Hamas TV station, Al-Aqsa TV. Farfur told the young viewers to pray in the mosque five times a day until the arrival of “world leadership under Islamic leadership,” and referred to Israel as “the oppressive invading Zionist occupation” that the children must "resist" [a popular PA euphemism for terrorism - ed.]. Following a strong international protest, Farfur was recently removed from the show. In a clip that can be viewed here, he was shown being beaten to death at the hands of an Israeli to whom he refused to sell his land. The young TV hostess then said, "Yes, we have lost our dear friend Farfur, who became a martyr while protecting his land, at the hands of the criminals and murderers of innocent children." A three-year-old caller then said, "We don't like the Jews because they are dogs. We will fight them," to which the narrator responded with a smile, "The Jews are criminals and enemies, we must expel them from our land." Message Still Shines Forth But even after his death, Farfur's message lives on. The most recent show, this past Friday, continued to preach hatred and praise shehada , martyr's death for Allah. The messages came from the young viewers themselves, who phoned in and expressed their views to the smiling and veil-clad child host named Saraa'. PMW's Barbara Crook and Itamar Marcus report that one young caller proclaimed: "Awake o children, awake to action, your destiny is one, and it is to become a Shahid [Martyr] for Allah." Later in the show, a nine-year old girl paraphrased the Hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad) that has been broadcast numerous times by Fatah and Hamas religious and educational leaders - namely, that resurrection is dependent on Muslims' fighting and killing the Jews. The caller sweetly recited, "The Prophet [Muhammed] said: The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until you fight the Jews, they will be east of the river and you to the west, and the rock and the tree will say: Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and fight him!" Saraa smiled and said, "Thank you very much, Shahad."
