New Hamas cartoon features “blood-drinking Jews,” other fun
Chris Spags If nothing else, you’ve got to give Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV channel credit for putting in effort with how it manipulates the minds of Middle Eastern youth. First it was Farfur, a Mickey Mouse-esque “martyr mouse” and now it’s their hot new cartoon “A Special Mission”, whose pilot features a US-sponsored Palestinian authority police officer named Bahlul.
[The] pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.
“You killed our children before my eyes,” the officer says meekly. “I will respond with even more peace.”
Bahlul, whose name means “buffoon” in Arabic, obligingly kisses the feet and shines the shoes of an Israeli soldier, drawn with an enormous nose and pointed ears like a devil’s [ED. NOTE: Otherwise known as that handsome devil pictured above, right].
He vows to “protect the [Jewish] settlements in the West Bank” and says he would shoot his brother, divorce his wife and arrest his relatives if the Israelis ordered him to do so.
When asked for comment by the AFP, an Al Aqsa network official said, “We received hundreds of letters from inside and outside [Gaza] asking for the program to be shown again.” Which seems like it’d be on the up-and-up coming from a reputable organization like Hamas.
The six-minute pilot episode was tested for some viewers on the Gaza Strip earlier this month and was extremely well-received, which teaches us that A) The viewers over there are big fans of madcap violence and B) Somehow Hamas has a market research department that attempts to determine what the audience will want to see…just like NBC did with its late night lineup. Coincidence? Of course not.
UPDATE: You can see a copy of the video here…for some reason it won’t embed.
[NY Post]
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