In the world of Hamas children's programming, the goals are far more ambitious than just getting the kids to pack on the pounds:
Last year the show’s Islamist producers in Gaza killed him off on the set as the victim of an Israeli bombing …
Stories like this – with their messages of martyrdom and death – are commonplace on Al-Aqsa Television, which is owned by Hamas.
They are made attractive to children with the use of characters like Assoud or Farfour, a Mickey Mouse lookalike, who also died when Israeli soldiers apparently beat him to death.
In another show last year, several children watch a video re-enactment of the real life death of their mother in a suicide bombing.
You'll recall Farfour, of course.
Hamas understands that it takes a child to raze a village. Our village, in particular.
When you wonder why we will be waging war against Islamo-fascism for many years or decades to come, think about how the next generation of suicide bombers is being indoctrinated right now.
