Hilarious and sad: Hamas Mickey Mouse

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Farfour mouse dies in last episode

Hamas TV on Friday broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour," a Mickey Mouse look-alike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters.

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, Farfour called the Israeli a "terrorist."

"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.

[Cloud]

saw that in conjunction with a story on recruitment of children as suicide bombers. Chilling, assuming it's true.

[TheMercenary]

Suicide Boy in Afganistan:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...r_N.htm?csp=34

Real stand up humanists they are.

[deadbeater]

Hey that's a better series ender than The Sopranos!

[Gaelic Ninja]

Let's hear it for the indoctrination of the young!
Hip-hip! Huzzah!

Just when you thought it could not get better...

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=2357

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Can't get much worse: Farfour's co-star ready for martyrdom at age 11.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20...n_editors_ytop

Hamas TV's child star says she's ready for martyrdom

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light bounced off the sparkly outlines of butterflies on her frilly top, and a colorful hijab framed her 11-year-old face.

Saraa wants to be a doctor. If she can't, the young star of Hamas television's best-known children's show said, she'd be proud to become a martyr. Saraa says little Jewish girls should be forced from their homes in Israel so that Palestinians can return to their land.

With the show's producer helpfully offering written tips during an interview, Saraa didn't get into how she hopes to die for her cause, be it suicide bombing, fighting the Israeli military or some other way. She carefully sidestepped any suggestion that she's subtly calling for the destruction of Israel.

"Israel says that we are terrorists," Saraa said minutes before an interview with her was interrupted by an errant Israeli airstrike that slammed into an apartment building on the adjacent block. "But they are the ones that must stop their attacks against us and our kids."

Saraa is the sweet face of "Tomorrow's Pioneers," a weekly, hour-long Hamas television children's show best known for bringing the world a militant Mickey Mouse look-alike and then having him killed off by an Israeli interrogator.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Method actress, huh? Sick fucks.

[piercehawkeye45]

Do you think it may be the airstrikes that are helping cause the martyrdom?

Suicide bombings in Palestine seem to be much different than suicide bombings by Al Qaeda. The ones in Palestine seem to be much more an act of desperation caused from a hopeless life (if I can't become a doctor I will become a martyr) while Al Qaeda's seem to be a forceful act from educated middle class (non-hopeless situation) trying to force their delusional romantic idea of paradise on Earth.

Remember, Hamas got elected by a 2/3rds margin in a non-fixed election (if it was fixed it was not towards Hamas), that is a big statement considering Hamas does not rule Palestine by fear like Al Qaeda and the Taliban do. This means that moderate Palestinians are resorting to extremism even though the majority of Palestinians want peace. What does this say about the situation?

I do not agree with some of Hamas tactics but to make them the sole "bad guy" without seriously dwelling on the cause and effects that have led to what we have now will seriously warp any realistic view of the current situation.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

...considering Hamas does not rule Palestine by fear like Al Qaeda and the Taliban do. This means that moderate Palestinians are resorting to extremism even though the majority of Palestinians want peace. What does this say about the situation?

I do not agree with some of Hamas tactics but to make them the sole "bad guy" without seriously dwelling on the cause and effects that have led to what we have now will seriously warp any realistic view of the current situation.

I would disagree, as would many Palestinians, that Hamas does not rule by fear. The Palestinians are as fractionalized as US politics.

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

http://www.pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm#b060507

Mickey sounds like the Great Cornholio

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I would disagree, as would many Palestinians, that Hamas does not rule by fear. The Palestinians are as fractionalized as US politics.

Of course there will be some fear, but not even close to the same level as Al Qaeda or the Taliban. Unless you are part of an opposing party (PLO, Fatah, etc) you are pretty much not going to be bothered, and more likely helped by Hamas since they spend most of their budget on social services like heath care, welfare, and education (not just propaganda too).

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Unless you are part of an opposing party (PLO, Fatah, etc) you are pretty much not going to be bothered...

And you don't see the failure in this logic. What hell man? "Unless you are part of an opposing party" That is no democracy. Fatah, among others, is a huge part of the equation. This is not just about Hamas.

[piercehawkeye45]

I am making the point that the people that support Hamas are usually not supporting them out of fear, but because they actually support them. I'm sure the situation is much more complex than that but to say they rule by terror is completely false.

That is no democracy.

Technically it is democracy, just not peaceful and very far from ideal. I'm not trying to force an America reference, but the whole "you are with us or against us" is the exact same thing.

This is not just about Hamas.

I know it isn't but as long as they are the ruling party in Palestine, most of the focus will and should be on them.

When it comes down to it, the situation for Palestine is hopeless. As long as the conditions the Palestinians are in right now stay the same, it isn't going to get any better. They can't just pull themselves up because they physically can not be self-supportive and for them to unite is unrealistic as peace in inner city Baltimore.

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