At The American Thinker, Steve Feldman takes apart Dion Nissenbaum for his 'interview' with 11-year old Saraa Barhoum, the child star of Hamas television's Tomorrow's Pioneers.
Sure, she has not murdered anyone (as best we know), but how many future murders has she motivated, when she should instead be discussing topics that most little girls think about: clothes, music or boys?
Thanks to Nissenbaum, Saraa is almost as famous in America as she is in Gaza and Ramallah. Will she be on the Disney Channel next thanks to his exposure?
Saraa has no-doubt been a prominent cog in the Palestinian-Arab machine that churns out waves of young homicidal maniacs - ticking time-bombs that only they and their handlers know exactly when and where they will detonate.
To be fair, Nissenbaum notes in his piece that the show Saraa stars in, "Tomorrow's Pioneers," is produced by the group Hamas (though he neglects to call them terrorists, even though that is the label our government gives them); that much of her dialogue is "militant rhetoric" and that "she hopes to die for her cause, be it suicide bombing, fighting the Israeli military or some other way."
Nissenbaum adds that the girl would be "proud to be a martyr" but he never describes fully what that means: that to do so would entail taking another's life with a bomb, gun, knife or other means, by, say, detonating oneself aboard a bus, in a mall or at a pizza parlor.
The writer states that Hamas uses shows like "Tomorrow's Pioneers" to "promote its agenda and challenge its rivals" as if it was advocating good dental hygiene while its "rivals" are in favor of rotting teeth.
When Nissenbaum brings in an academic to offer analysis, he merely reports that "Hamas is fighting a political war" to become more popular among Palestinian-Arabs than Fatah - as if they were akin to Democratic and Republican challenges.
But Hamas is a far cry from our "red-state" "blue-state" clashes.
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What we who follow the unfolding situation know is that there is something very wrong when the mainstream media portrays Hamas and its ilk as mere politicians or takes a real girl as demented as the character Regan in "The Exorcist" and instead likens her to Pippi Longstockings.
It is time for the fiction and fairytales to end. There is no doubt that, with money being fungible, somehow, someway, our tax dollars are funding this poison. Dishonest or misdirecting articles such as Nissenbaum's prevent Americans from learning what our enemies are up to and making sure our leaders combat them.
Feldman is right of course. The Western media plays right into the Islamic terrorists' hands by romanticizing their acts as if they were the products of normal minds. Ask a kid growing up in Sderot today what it's like to be under constant rocket fire. Yesterday, the radio was full of news about how parents in Sderot want to send their kids to school outside of the town because the classrooms in Sderot are mostly not fortified yet - and so the kids will have a few hours a day away from the constant sirens. Unfortunately, it will likely take a major tragedy with lots of casualties to get people to take Hamas' Kassam fire seriously.
Something tells me that "the girl" is Saraa, the hostess of "Tomorrow's Pioneers" pictured in the yellow burkha in this scene with Farfour (pictured at top) the 'martyred' mouse. My comment on the site which asks if it is Saraa has thus far gone unanswered. But if I'm right, it could be interesting to hear whether the child realizes she is being used by Hamas to promote suicide.
Well, the interview has now been published and surprise, surprise, surprise, she says she's ready to be a 'martyr.' Her full name is Sara Barhoum, and if Hamastan has any social services, they ought to be on her parents' doorstep.
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."
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" Hamas is fighting a political war for the hearts and minds of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ," said Robert A. Pape , a University of Chicago political science professor and the author of "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism."
"They are trying to show that they are the true heart-and-soul of the community, all the way down to an 11-year-old-girl," Pape added.
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"A lot of people in Palestine have died as martyrs, and lots of Palestinians hope to be martyrs," Saraa said of Farfour's demise. "This is one of the ends."
Asked if she hoped one day to be a martyr, Saraa instinctively nodded her head.
"Of course," Saraa said. "It's something to be proud of. Every Palestinian citizen hopes to be a martyr."
Saraa helps deliver similar messages to Palestinian children from a Hamas TV set filled with colorful numbers and pictures of kittens. During the show, Saraa fields calls from Palestinian children who warble songs about Islam, liberating Jerusalem and finding answers in the barrel of a machine gun.
On one show, she cut off a caller who was singing about surrendering herself, presumably to God's will.
"We don't want to surrender," Saraa told the caller. "We want to resist."
The show has provided new fodder for Israeli activists, who say that Saraa is the true face of Hamas , an extremist group that's using an innocent front to conceal its real agenda.
Hamas television officials defend the show, saying it's designed to help young children connect with their country and their God.
Israel and the United States both have pressured the Palestinian Authority to change school textbooks, radio shows and television programming that are seen to be fueling anti-Israeli hatred.
On the show, Saraa offers moral lessons to viewers and urges them to do what they can to fight Israeli occupation. After some prodding in an interview, Saraa offered a personal message for Israeli girls her age.
"They have to leave," she said. "This is our country. They kicked us out and stole our happiness. This is a natural result."
Jihad Watch calls the interview "a study in indoctrination." I call the fact that she hosts Tomorrow's Pioneers child abuse. The fact that an 11-year old professes to be ready to commit suicide and tries to convince other children to do the same is nothing short of brainwashing. And unfortunately, as has been documented before, she is quite typical of her peer group among the 'Palestinians.' Sadly, her generation has likely been indoctrinated enough to ensure that it will not live to see peace.
US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of AnimalsPeople Eating Tasty Animals (PETA) has slammed Hamas' Jihad television station for showing a clip that was cruel to animals on its popular children's program Tomorrow's Pioneers. The fact that the show encourages children to become 'martyrs' by murdering Jews is apparently irrelevant to PETA.
"It's shocking and sickening," said Martin Mersereau, manager of the domestic animal abuse division of U.S.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Speaking to Reuters by telephone, he said PETA was drafting a letter of protest to the Gaza-based al-Aqsa television station, which aired the show -- aimed at teaching children not to abuse animals -- last week.
A segment of the programme was posted on the YouTube video-sharing Web site after being recorded and translated by pro-Israeli group Palestinian Media Watch.
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The YouTube clip shows an actor dressed as a bee mistreating a cat and lions at Gaza Zoo. In the studio, he is reprimanded by the programme's host, who cautions children against mimicking the bee's "terrible" behaviour. "
Any lessons meant to be contained in this segment are almost certainly lost on most children, who are more likely to imitate people they see treating animals cruelly rather than understand this behaviour is wrong," Mersereau said.
Gaza Zoo veterinarian Saoud al-Shawa said he had not been consulted before the programme was filmed, but believed there was no harm in educational shows aimed at lowering violence among children.
"Even at the zoo, we sometimes complain about the aggressive behaviour of some of the children," he said. "But we do not blame them. We blame the violent environment that surrounds them -- Israeli violence and Palestinian-Palestinian violence too."
For those who have not seen it yet, here is the video.
What's striking about this is that PETA couldn't care less that Hamas television teaches children to murder people - only when they teach children to torture animals. And for that matter, the same can be said of the television program. Tomorrow's Pioneers encourages 'martyrdom operations' against Jews, but hostess Saraa reprimands Nahoul for torturing animals.
For those who are offended by my treatment of PETA in the opener, let's just say that one of the first things the Nazis did was to ban Jewish ritual slaughter as 'cruel to animals' and leave it at that. We Jews have a long and bitter history in this regard.
I trust that many of you will recall Farfur, the 'Palestinian' Mickey Mouse. For those who have forgotten here is a reminder:
But it seems that we're not going to have Farfur to kick around anymore. You see Farfur has been 'martyred' by the 'evil Israelis.' Just imagine how all those little tykes from Hamas are going to feel about Israel now....
Al-Aqsa TV, run by the Palestinian Territories ruling party Hamas, has featured a squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse look-alike named Farfur in the weekly children's program "Tomorrow's Pioneers."
However, the show's final episode had the character being beaten to death.
"Farfur was martyred while defending his land," said a teen hostess of the program. The mouse character had called the Israeli a "terrorist" and the hostess said he died at the hands of the "killers of children."
Station officials said plans are for other programming to replace the Farfur show.
Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa', had taken every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the U.S. and support of "resistance" – the Palestinian euphemism for terrorism, reported the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch.
Farfur told children they must pray in the mosque five times a day until there is "world leadership under Islamic leadership."
"We, tomorrow's pioneers, will restore to this nation its glory, and we will liberate Al-Aqsa, with Allah's will, and we will liberate Iraq, with Allah's will, and we will liberate the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers," the mouse character said.
Saraa' explained the nucleus of world Islamic leadership will be from "all of Palestine," meaning elimination of the entire state of Israel.
Farfur urged the children to "resist" Israel, "the oppressive invading Zionist occupation."
In one segment, Farfur said, "We will win, Bush! We will win, Condoleezza! We will win, Sharon!" Then, he quipped, "Ah, Sharon is dead" (sic), reinforcing his message that the plan for world domination is progressing.
Saraa' warned the children they must give an account to Allah after they die for what they did or did not do for Palestinians imprisoned by the Israelis and for the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, disputed territory Palestinians consider sacred to Islam.
"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."
Child viewers phone in to the show and recite poems with images of hate and violence, according to PMW.
One child said, "We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death," and another, "Rafah sings 'Oh, oh.' Its answer is an AK-47. We who do not know fear, we are the predators of the forest."
But just give them a statereichlet and they will stop teaching their children to murder.
All Jews must be "erased from our land," Nassur, a stuffed bear who hosts the weekly program, Tomorrow's Pioneers, on Hamas's Al-Aksa television, explained to a child who called in to a September 22 show. "We want to slaughter them, Saraa, so they will be expelled from our land... we'll have to [do it] by slaughter."
Let's go to the videotape (no, this is not the one on the JPost web page - that was an old one). A partial transcript follows and I'll have a comment after that.
Here's a partial transcript:
Nassur: "There won't be any Jews or Zionists, if Allah wills. They'll be erased."
Saraa: "Chased away."
Nassur: "And just like we will visit the Qaaba [in Mecca]... everyone will visit Jerusalem."
(A seven-year-old boy on the phone tells how his father, a member of Hamas's Izzadin Kassam Brigades, "died as a shahid (martyr).")
Nassur to boy: "What do you want to do to the Jews who shot your father?"
Boy: "I want to kill them."
Saraa: "We don't want to do anything to them, just expel them from our land."
Nassur: "We want to slaughter (nidbah-hom) them, so they will be expelled from our land, right?"
Saraa: "Yes. That's right. We will expel them from our land using all means."
Nassur: "And if they don't want [to go] peacefully, by words or talking, we'll have to [do it] by slaughter (shaht)."
(Al-Aksa (Hamas) TV, September 22, 2009)
I wonder if Richard Goldstone would consider this tape relevant to his investigation. Nah, it might reflect poorly on Hamas.
On Hamas' sick Jihadi television program, child 'star' Saraa Barhoum (the host of Tomorrow's Pioneers) sings to celebrate Hamas' 'victory' in Gaza. This show was broadcast on December 20, last Thursday.
An Israeli leftist almost comes face-to-face with reality
The Washington Post's post-global has a brief piece by one Hanna Rosin, an Israeli leftist who lives - where else - in the US. Ms. Rosin was recently in Israel visiting her right-wing relatives when she happened to catch Farfur the 'Palestinian' Mickey Mouse on Hamas television. It almost caused her to have an epiphany:
"Tomorrow's Pioneers," which runs on a Hamas affiliated station, is not some nutcase cable access show. It's "educational television," the Hamas equivalent of Sesame Street or Baby Einstein, the kind of show that appeals to parents who think kids today spend too much time with their Game Boys. In some episodes Farfour tells kids to study hard for their exams and drink their milk. In other episodes he shows them how to hold an AK-47 and launch a hand grenade.
This is the hardest thing to get your head around. Martyr culture is not just for the hopeless youth of refugee camps. I remember once visiting a West bank school that was the Fatah-affiliated equivalent of Maret- a tony outpost for the children of professors and accountants. Even there the most prominent space was reserved for the Martyr's Wall, a collection of photos and bloody mementos of neighborhood kids who'd been killed while fighting the enemy. No youthful aspirations exist outside the context of the noble death wish. For a fourteen-year-old, to aspire to be just an accountant is shameful, a betrayal. To be a martyr is the ultimate goal.
We are once again in one of those moments when some American official is gamely setting out to tackle the Middle East peace process (in this case Condi Rice) But if anyone has one spark of hope for the success of such a process, the Martyred Mouse will kill it off. Even the most willfully blinkered lefty Israeli (such as myself) just has to throw up her hands at a preschool program that includes among its vocabulary phrases "murderers of innocent children" and "criminal plundering Jews." This seems only one step short of the child soldiers of Uganda, kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army. " "We will annihilate the Jews," one young female caller told Farfour."I will commit martyrdom."
Fortunately, in the next paragraph, Rosin returned to her 'senses.'
One bit of good news: " Israel's Education Ministry announced Sunday that it had approved a textbook for use in the state's Arab schools that for the first time described Israel's 1948 war of independence as a 'catastrophe' for the Arab population," the New York Times reports. Hardly a radical concession, but still very controversial in Israel. The Education Minister, my relatives would point out with disgust, is of course a longtime, loyal Laborite.
And a founder of PeacePiece by Piece Now.
I wonder if Ms. Rosin is friendly with Olmert's son Shaul, who lives in New York.
By the way, when there's an election here, people like this charter airplanes to come here to vote (no absentee ballots unless you're in the army or the diplomatic corps). There are left-wing airplanes and right-wing airplanes. And with the number of leftists living abroad these days, those numbers can change the election results. Amazing, isn't it?
Assud the Jew-eating rabbit to have his hand amputated?
In case anyone missed it yesterday, MEMRI released a translation of Hamas' Jihadi Television's 'kids show,' Tomorrow's Pioneers, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on Friday, July 11, 2008. In the 'episode,' Assud the Jew-eating rabbit is Tempted by Satan to steal and is sentenced by children viewers to have his hand chopped off.
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows and I'll have a comment at the end.
Assud the bunny: In the name of Allah, I hope my dad doesn't see me. God, make him go on sleeping, while I take one or two bills. There's his stash of money... Man, there is so much money here... No, I must put it back. Stealing is forbidden.
Satan: No, no... What are you doing, Assud? No, Assud, I promised you that nobody would see you or know about this. Take one or two bills. Don't be afraid, Assud.
Assud: Okay, I'll just take one... Actually, I'll take two.
Satan: No, take three.
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Voice of girl: Assud, you were wrong to follow Satan, who is the source of all problems. In addition, you caused problems between your parents. You have no right to cause such a great problem. Don't you know that stealing leads to Hell. The Prophet Muhammad said: "If my daughter Fatima had stolen, I would have chopped off her hand." If you were in Saudi Arabia now, they would chop off your hand. Allah said in the Koran: "As for a thief, male or female, cut off their hands: A punishment by example, for their crime."
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Child TV host Saraa: What do you think about what Assud did?
Asmaa: It was wrong, because "as for a thief, male or female, cut of their hands."
Assud: Oh my God! You say that my hand should be chopped off, Asmaa?
Asmaa: Yes.
Assud: You think my hand should be chopped off?
Asmaa: What?
Assud: You want my hand to be chopped off?
Asmaa: Yes.
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Nur: The Prophet Muhammad said: "If my daughter Fatima had stolen, I would have chopped off her hand.
Assud: So if Saraa were to steal, her hand should be chopped off, right?
Nur: No.
Assud: When you were little, didn't you ever steal a shekel or something?
Nur: No, because Allah is watching me.
Saraa: Nur, do you think we should go ahead and chop off Assud's hand now?
Assud: No, no. Saraa, I'm begging you...
Nur: Saraa, he has repented and promised never to do it again, then that's it.
Saraa: Well, if we don't chop off his hand, maybe we should chop off his ear?
Assud: No, please, no, I'm begging you...
Note that when asked whether Saraa should have her hand chopped off if she were caught stealing, the child says no. That is also characteristic of 'Palestinian' society. You will never find the children of the people in charge - say Ismail Haniyeh or Mahmoud Zahar (the two main Hamas leaders in Gaza) - acting as suicide bombers. Years ago, the IDF intercepted a phone conversation in which the wife of a Hamas leader (sorry, I forget who it was) was asked to send her son to commit a suicide bombing. She refused and said that was for the lesser people to do and not for her son. The tape was broadcast on Israel Radio so that we would all see that the 'Palestinians' are not so willing to 'sacrifice' their own children - only the children of others.
According to a report on Palestinian Media Watch, Mickey Mouse is now appearing on 'Palestinian' (Hamas) television. No, not the real Mickey Mouse, but a knock-off who - you guessed it - teaches 'Palestinian' children to hate Israel and America, and aspire to Islam’s inevitable and impending world domination.
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). 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, while taking every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US and support of "resistance" – the Palestinian 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 this world Islamic leadership will be from “all of Palestine,” i.e., including Israel. Farfur refers to Israel as “the oppressive invading Zionist occupation,” which the children must "resist."
In a religious warning that is striking, considering the young age of the target audience, 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.”
Shock and horror at Haaretz: Foreign Ministry highlighting 'Palestinian' incitement instead of promoting a 'Palestinian state'
Perhaps in no ministry has the contrast between this government and its predecessors been greater than in the foreign ministry. In Friday's edition, Haaretz's frustration with the foreign ministry boils over. They have done a hit piece on Palestinian Media Watch, the people who made Tomorrow's Pioneers nearly as well known in the West as Sesame Street, and who were brought to Congress by then Senator Hillary Clinton to testify on incitement to murder Jews in 'Palestinian' textbooks.
For the record, this story is classified as 'news' even though it reads like an opinion piece straight out of the Guardian or the Independent.
The reporters that came witnessed a surreal event, in which the official Foreign Ministry briefing room was turned over to a politically right-wing nongovernmental organization. Though it was Ayalon's office that invited the press, the briefing was conducted by a public relations agent for PMW rather than the Foreign Ministry.
PMW's activities are entirely legitimate, and some of its findings could clearly be categorized as disturbing evidence of anti-Israel incitement. Yet many of the journalists in attendance, who included many representatives of foreign media outlets, were not aware that PMW is led by a right-wing activist, and that many other such activists, from Israel and abroad, are involved in it.
Marcus, in addition to his position with PMW, is also vice president of the New York-based Central Fund of Israel, which provides financial support to a variety of right-wing organizations, such as Im Tirzu, as well as a range of activities in West Bank settlements.
I wonder how many press briefings at the foreign ministry during the days of Shimon Peres and Shlomo Ben Ami were delivered by organizations funded by the New Israel Fund or the Peres Center for Peace, both of which are up to their eyeballs in funding from European governments.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon (Yisrael Beiteinu ) told Haaretz he saw no problem in convening a joint press conference with Palestinian Media Watch. He said the organization had submitted its report to the Foreign Ministry in the same way that social service organizations submit reports to the president.
"But I am in favor of full disclosure, and we are not automatically adopting the report," he said, adding that the report will be studied, and only then will the ministry take a position.
Nevertheless, he continued, the issue of Palestinian incitement is crucial.
"We will cooperate with any organization that discloses facts, regardless of its political affiliation," he said. "We believe in the government joining hands with nongovernmental organizations."
Well why shouldn't the foreign ministry work with NGO's to point out to the world that the 'Palestinians' continue to incite against the existence of a Jewish state? Haaretz doesn't answer that question, but they do eventually get around to their real beef:
This bizarre press conference was just a symptom of a trend that has emerged in the Foreign Ministry over the last year: After Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared that he does not want his ministry to be the Ministry for Palestinian Affairs, he distanced Israeli diplomats from almost all activity related to the peace process. Instead, this is being handled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisors and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The Foreign Ministry, with Netanyahu's enthusiastic support, has instead assumed a new role: conducting an aggressive campaign against the Palestinian Authority over alleged incitement against Israel.
But Lieberman, Ayalon and other senior Foreign Ministry officials characterize almost any PA act that is not to their liking as incitement. Thus the ministry lambastes not only Palestinian streets named after terrorists and hate-filled television broadcasts, but also the PA's decision to boycott products made in West Bank settlements and Palestinian efforts to have Israel condemned by the United Nations.
"It's all part of one Palestinian strategy regarding the delegitimization of Israel," Ayalon said.
What a shanda! Bureaucrat Nadav Tamir - elected by no one, but representing Israel's hard left - isn't being allowed to handle the 'peace process.' Instead it's being handled by people who won democratic elections who are pursuing an integrated strategy to win the PR war against the 'Palestinians' instead of acting as if they're the 'Palestinian' foreign ministry. And Haaretz can't stand it. Well, that's what happens when Haaretz's constituency (Meretz voters) win 2.5% of the vote. May it only continue!
Nahoul the Bee criticizes 'Palestinian' child who wants to be a journalist
In the latest episode of Tomorrow's Pioneers from Hamas' al-Aqsa Television this past Friday, Nahoul the Bee criticizes a child for wanting to be a journalist rather than a 'martyr.'
The 'lovely' Saraa: Learning the language of the 'enemy'
On Hamas' al-Aqsa television on Friday, Tomorrow's Pioneers hostess Saraa Barhoum, the niece of Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, encourages a child to learn English because it's the 'language of the enemy.'
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript and more will follow.
Child host: "What do you want to be in the future, Allah willing?" Child caller: "A teacher of the English language." Host: "Why do you want to be specifically an English teacher?" Child: "To teach children the language of their enemy." [Child host smiles.] Host: "Very nice. A great field. It is not enough for us to know our own language… We also want to study the language of our enemies, to know how to have contacts with them, and so that we can convey the message of Palestinian children..." Nassur: "Like me! Just like I know the Zionist enemy’s language." Host: "Really?" Nassur: "Hebrew." Host: "Okay, speak [in Hebrew]." Nassur: "I can't." [laughing].
[Al-Aqsa (Hamas) TV, Oct. 16, 2009]
Maybe if they learn enough English, Hamas can start a game show like this one (Hat Tip: Soccer Dad).
A Hamas TV program for children is once again promoting Shahada - Martyrdom for Allah - as a positive goal for kids.
In the most recent episode of the show Tomorrow's Pioneers, the child host asks a 10-year-old girl who phones into the program whether she had been afraid of dying during the 2009 Gaza War.
"No, I wasn't afraid," the little girl says. "I wished for Shahada (Martyrdom) - Shahada for Allah."
The host is effusive in her praise that "even this little girl" dreams of Shahada, and adds, "We all wish for this."
The exchange is more than just another example of Hamas's continued promotion of Shahada for children. The young caller's response also proves the success of years of propaganda by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) to indoctrinate children to aspire to Martyrdom for Allah, and to believe that seeking death is a greater value than seeking life.
To see more examples from PMW's website about the promotion of Shahada, click here. For more examples of the success of this strategy, click here.
The show happened on Friday, January 22. Let's go to the videotape.
Can you imagine your kids talking like that? Can you imagine 'adults' in your circle of friends being so pleased with the kids talking like that if God forbid they did?
The United States has imposed sanctions on Hamas' al-Aqsa Television network.
On March 18, 2010, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against two Hamas-linked organizations in Gaza – Al-Aqsa TV and the Islamic National Bank (INB). The actions, taken pursuant to Executive Order 13224, freeze any assets that Al-Aqsa TV or INB hold under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibit U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with them. The targets of the sanctions include terrorists and terrorist organizations, among others.
The Treasury Department stated that Al-Aqsa TV is financed and controlled by Hamas, serving as a primary Hamas media outlet that airs programs "designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood."
What took so long? Al-Aqsa broadcasts Tomorrow's Pioneers (the children's show with the cartoon character terrorists) among other things.
'Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle'
In the latest episode of the weekly children's program Tomorrow's Pioneers on Hamas TV, a Palestinian boy chose to sing the following children's song:
"Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle. When I am a big boy, I will join the Liberation Army. The army of [Izz Al-Din] Al-Qassam (Hamas), which has taught us how to defend our homeland. Our homeland is precious, precious. We [are] victorious, victorious over America and Israel. [Improvises:] Son of a bitch - what brought you to this land?"
It is worth noting that the two hosts, the young girl Saraa and Nassur, an adult in a bear costume, approved of the boy's choice of song and let him sing it. Only when the boy cursed("Son of a bitch"), did the young girl cut him off, pointing out that the "program is a program for children, not for anything else." The objection was to the boy's cursing, not to the content of the song. The adult inside the puppet ended the exchange by defending the boy: "He didn't say anything else, Saraa. He said the truth."
Let's go to the videotape.
Palestinian Media Watch has more about this program here. Isn't it great how the 'Palestinians' are preparing their people for 'peace'? Especially the younger generation....
'Palestinian' child abuse: Suicide bomber's children shown re-enactment of mother's death on Hamas TV kids' show
The Hamas TV children's program Tomorrow's Pioneers - the same show that brought us Farfour the Mouse, Nahoul the Bee, Assoud the Jew-eating Rabbit and the 'lovely' Saraa (Fawzi Barhoum's niece) - produced a special broadcast in which the two young children of a female suicide terrorist were invited to the TV studio to watch a video re-enactment of their mother's suicide bombing. The terrorist, Reem Riyashi, killed four Israelis in a suicide bombing in 2004.
Calling the terrorist a "Martyr," the bear puppet and star of the program, Nassur, introduces Riyashi's children to the other children in the studio:
"[Our guests are] the children of the Shahida [Martyr] Reem Riyashi."
Then Muhammad and Duha, the young son and daughter of Riyashi, together with the children in the studio, watch a music video re-enactment of their mother's suicide bombing. While the video is shown, the TV camera shows close-ups of Riyashi's children as they stare at the screen images of their mother's bombing and death.
Let's go to the videotape.
You can find the full video that the kids were watching here. Here's a summary of that video's story:
Abhorrent as such images might seem, the story behind them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli internal-security experts who studied the background of her case say Riyashi's husband had discovered that she was having an affair with a senior Hamas commander. Among conservative Palestinians, as in other parts of the Islamic world, an adulterous woman is often punished with death. Riyashi was given a second option: she could become a martyr. In a video statement released hours before her death, Riyashi, garbed in a militaristic uniform and holding a semiautomatic rifle, sounds tough. "I have always wished to knock at the door of heaven carrying skulls belonging to the sons of Zion," she says. But the pained expression on her chubby, homely face conveys considerably more ambivalence about the idea of annihilating herself to kill Israelis and restore her family's "honor."
What kind of effect do you think this haves on young children's minds? I'll tell you one thing for sure: It does not prepare them to live normal, peaceful lives.
The manner in which the 'Palestinians' abuse their children is abhorrent. The way the rest of the world puts up with it is even worse.
Hamas TV explains to the kiddies what 'negotiations' are about
It's been a while since I've shown you a video from Hamas' al-Aqsa Television's children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers. Now, Nahoul the giant bee is back to explain to the Hamas kiddies what 'negotiations' are all about.
Let's go to the videotape.
I hope you weren't expecting 'peace' or something.
Hamas condemns the Holocaust - by comparing Israel to Nazis
The headline looked promising. The JPost told us this evening that a Hamas minister - Health and Information Minister Bassem Naeem had 'condemned Holocaust denial' in an op-ed published in London's Al-Guardian.
"But it should be made clear that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian government in Gaza denies the Nazi Holocaust," his op-ed continued. "The Holocaust was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality."
Naeem then went on to write that while he "unreservedly condemns the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, [he] categorically rejects the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes... of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us."
Maybe? Could it be? No, it wasn't. In fact, the only thing in this op-ed that's new is the unprecedented low level to which Al-Guardian stooped to publish it. Quite simply, there is no excuse for giving a voice to terrorists - particularly to publish this kind of risible drivel:
In fact, the al-Aqsa Channel is an independent media institution that often does not express the views of the Palestinian government headed by Ismail Haniyeh or of the Hamas movement. The channel regularly gives Palestinians of different convictions the chance to express views that are not shared by the Palestinian government or the Hamas movement. In the case of the opinion expressed on al-Aqsa TV by Amin Dabbur, it is his alone and he is solely responsible for it.
Really? Which programming on Al-Aqsa didn't reflect the views of Haniyeh and Hamas? The claim that the Jews perpetrated the Holocaust to get rid of their own handicapped and infirm populations? The Tomorrow's Pioneers children's program hosted by Hamas spokesman Fawzi Bahoum's niece Saraa, which brought us such heroes as Farfour the Mouse (beaten to death by an 'Israeli agent'), Nahoul the Bee ('died' because he couldn't get to his free care in a hospital in Israel due to the blockade), and Assud the Jew-eating rabbit? Kuku and Fuku (who want to return to Tel Aviv and Haifa and throw the Jews into the sea)? Did Hamas 'Culture' Minister Atallah Abu Al-Subh reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion reflect the views of Haniyeh and Hamas? How about the puppet show in which a child stabbed President Bush to death? Did that reflect the views of Haniyeh and Hamas? How about all the calls to 'Palestinians' to protect act as human shields for terrorists' homes? Do those reflect the views of Hamas and Haniyeh?
Please tell us Minister Naeem - which of these programs and countless others don't reflect Hamas or Haniyeh's policies?
But then Naeem really steps over a line: He compares the State of Israel to the Nazis:
But it should be made clear that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian government in Gaza denies the Nazi Holocaust. The Holocaust was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality.
And at the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us - to the point where in February the Israeli deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened the people of Gaza with a "holocaust".
Within 24 hours, 61 Palestinians - more than half of them civilians and a quarter children - were killed in a series of air raids. Meanwhile, a horrible crime against humanity continues to be perpetrated against the people of Gaza: the two-year-old siege imposed after Hamas won the legislative elections in January 2006, which is causing great suffering. Due to severe shortages of medicines and food, scores of Palestinians have lost their lives.
The 'siege' started after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah last summer. Not two years ago. Israel has continued to supply the Gaza Strip with all of its people's basic necessities even though Israel can (and should) lock the door of the Strip and throw away the key since it is no longer responsible for it. Any shortages in the Strip have been created by Hamas by commandeering supplies meant for the 'Palestinian people' and by its continuous bombing of the very depots and crossing points from which Israel supplies the residents of Gaza with the basic necessities of life.
Then Naeem lets his guard down. If you read his article carefully, you will see how he defines 'occupation' and you will understand that it's not about borders, but about Israel's existence.
Our right to resistance against occupation is recognised by all conventions and religious traditions [Name one other than Islam. CiJ]. The Jews are for us the people of a sacred book who suffered persecution in European lands. Whenever they sought refuge, Muslim and Arab lands provided them with safe havens. It was in our midst that they enjoyed peace and prosperity; many of them held leading positions in Muslim countries [until hundreds of thousands of them were expelled from their homes in Arab countries and their property was confiscated after each time the Arab countries tried to annihilate Israel and went down in ignominious defeat. CiJ].
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The Europeans bear a direct responsibility for what is befalling the Palestinians today. Britain was the mandate authority that handed over Palestine to Israeli occupation. Nazi Germany perpetrated the most heinous crimes against Jews, forcing the survivors to migrate to Palestine in pursuit of safety. We, therefore, expect the Europeans to atone for their historic crimes by restoring some balance to the inhuman and one-sided international response to the tragedy of our people.
If Britain turned 'Palestine' over to 'Israeli occupation' it didn't happen in 1967 - it happened in 1948. What Hamas seeks is Israel's destruction - no more and no less. Hamas seeks to perpetrate a second Holocaust on the Jewish people and then to turn the entire country into an Islamic Caliphate. They must be stopped.
In a rather interesting post on trying to quantify the value of a life in the Gaza Strip (note the debate in Israel over 'targeted assassinations), Dion Nissenbaum mentions this interesting little tidbit:
This afternoon, while we were interviewing an 11-year-old cast member on a Hamas television show, a deafening blast shook the building. Knowing that Israel had targeted the Hezbollah television station in Beirut during last summer's war, I wondered if the Israeli military was now targeting its Hamas counterpart.
We joined the girl and the rest of the staff in rushing out of the building to find out what happened.
Something tells me that "the girl" is Saraa, the hostess of "Tomorrow's Pioneers" pictured in the yellow burkha in this scene with Farfour the 'martyred' mouse. My comment on the site which asks if it is Saraa has thus far gone unanswered. But if I'm right, it could be interesting to hear whether the child realizes she is being used by Hamas to promote suicide.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
At The American Thinker, Steve Feldman takes apart Dion Nissenbaum for his 'interview' with 11-year old Saraa Barhoum, the child star of Hamas television's Tomorrow's Pioneers. 
