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An image taken from Al-Aqsa TV showing the Mickey Mouse lookalike talking on a children's show. (AP)
Last update - 23:48 09/05/2007
PA pulls Hamas TV children`s program with mock Mickey Mouse advocating violence
By News Agencies

A program using a Mickey Mouse-like character to urge Palestinian children to fight Israel and the West and work for world Islamic domination has been pulled off Hamas' television station for review, the Palestinian information minister said Wednesday.

Mustafa Barghouti said the use of the cartoon character in such a role represented a mistaken approach to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.

Barghouti said that following a request from his ministry, the program was pulled from the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV and placed under review.
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"I demanded that Hamas suspend the program and they have withdrawn it, because it was wrong to use a program directed at children to convey political messages," he said.

In the statement, Barghouti said his ministry would continue to ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the press, but addded that, "Any media outlet that breaks Palestinian broadcasting law will be penalized by the Information Ministry."

Barghouti complained that the story continued to receive attention by some American television stations after it was resolved, and that media did not broadcast video of Israeli human rights violations supplied by his ministry in recent weeks.

Israel has long complained that the Palestinian airwaves are filled with incitement.

"You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," the cartoon character named Farfour squeaked on a recent episode of the show, entitled "Tomorrow's Pioneers."

"We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers."

Children call in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.

Disney declined comment on "Tomorrow's Pioneers," but a daughter of the U.S. entertainment firm's founder cried foul.

"The world loves children and this [show] is just going against the grain of humanity," Diane Disney Miller told the New York Daily News.

"What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that."
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  1.   Mickey Mouse 18:54  |  Mark 09/05/07
  2.   Dizzyland 19:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/05/07
  3.   bah 19:10  |  ruth 09/05/07
  4.   ...and the World Bank wonders why Israel doesn;t wnat hamas 19:23  |  r 09/05/07
  5.   Disgusting 19:30  |  Evan G. 09/05/07
  6.   Moslems teach violence to their children 19:32  |  Nicole 09/05/07
  7.   This Is A Cool Show 19:35  |  Dyinglikeflies 09/05/07
  8.   Mickey Mouse-like character advocating violence 19:53  |  David Hersham 09/05/07
  9.   All those preventing children.......... 19:59  |  Deborah 09/05/07
  10.   Palestinian Stupidity Again 20:06  |  SES 09/05/07
  11.   #6 Nicole 20:06  |  Deborah 09/05/07
  12.   I am glad that the show was "pulled" and I hope Disney 20:10  |  Virginia 09/05/07
  13.   This was no mistaken approach 20:11  |  Jon 09/05/07
  14.   Why are they pulling this fine program off the agenda? 20:25  |  Gina 09/05/07
  15.   Disney Stockholder 20:27  |  Cheeseit 09/05/07
  16.   Better to leave in on TV 20:30  |  C McCoy 09/05/07
  17.   Deborah-misplaced sympathy 20:31  |  Jon 09/05/07
  18.   Mustafa Barghouti and the Micki Mouse Cartoons. 20:40  |  Mike 09/05/07
  19.   Disney 20:50  |  ODP 09/05/07
  20.   Deborah 20:55  |  Marisol 09/05/07
  21.   education of children 21:00  |  Dik 09/05/07
  22.   Palis openly running terror kindergardens 21:01  |  TOMY 09/05/07
  23.   What about Israel`s Children Shows 21:19  |  Arab 09/05/07
  24.   Rats who use a mouse to incite hatred...interesting 21:45  |  Boris 09/05/07
  25.   The children, the children. Oh, the children! 21:50  |  what a pity! 09/05/07
  26.   Mickey is a child`s worst nightmare? 21:50  |  Lynn 09/05/07
  27.   Sure it wasn`t just the Simpsons... 21:57  |  Clickfool 09/05/07
  28.   They Are Just Now Entering The beginning of The 20th Century 22:16  |  Eli 09/05/07
  29.   Hey Kids! It`s Time For Meshal The Rat! 22:29  |  Yosemite 09/05/07
  30.   Stranger things have happened, look how Al Capone was 22:49  |  Virginia 09/05/07
  31.   Are You Guys Thinking What I`m Thinking? 22:52  |  Yosemite 09/05/07
  32.   TOMY 22:52  |  FLOWER 09/05/07
  33.   # 25 Yosemite, I agree 100%. Something must been done 22:57  |  Virginia 09/05/07
  34.   One more generation of suicide bombers !! 23:01  |  Alberto Cohen 09/05/07
  35.   I`m Very Perceptive So You Might Want To Sound The Alarm! 23:02  |  Yosemite 09/05/07
  36.   # 27, Not that the Simpson`s are appropriate for children, 23:21  |  Virginia 09/05/07
  37.   #18, too many peaceloving Arabs out there to take you seriously 23:41  |  newageblues 09/05/07
  38.   Is "Haaretz" obfuscating again? Hamas "may" pull the show back 23:41  |  Absolute Sweden 09/05/07
  39.   This is blatantly ignored by the "peace loving" Pal apologists 23:49  |  PETER SM 09/05/07
  40.   Violence is practiced on the ground by the IDF!!!! 23:59  |  Abu Ali 09/05/07
  41.   FOOL.Ever ready to try a spin for your racist,hater,war mongers 00:01  |  PETER SM 10/05/07
  42.   BAH 00:05  |  DANNY 10/05/07
  43.   `...just going against the grain of humanity...` 00:11  |  Chick Corea 10/05/07
  44.   NO 8 00:16  |  DANNY. 10/05/07
  45.   Unfortunately Arab, there was such a show 00:16  |  Jacob Blues 10/05/07
  46.   Unfortunately, as in real life, things don`t always work out 00:17  |  Jacob Blues 10/05/07
  47.   TO ALL THOSE PREVENTING THE CHILDREN 00:19  |  DANNY. 10/05/07
  48.   #23 Arab in Arlington 00:24  |  B`Galil 10/05/07
  49.   Mickey Mouse 00:29  |  Bruce Mazer 10/05/07
  50.   BARGHOUTI did point out something we all know, 00:32  |  lakshmi 10/05/07
  51.   BARGHOUTI did point out something we all know, 00:33  |  lakshmi 10/05/07
  52.   By The Way 00:34  |  Yosemite 10/05/07
  53.   22 RELIGION OF NUT CASES. 00:36  |  DANNY. 10/05/07
  54.   Imagine if... 00:37  |  Yitzhak 10/05/07
  55.   ABU ALI 00:46  |  VS 10/05/07
  56.   Violence is practiced on the ground by the IDF!!!!?????????????? 00:57  |  Bruce Mazer 10/05/07
  57.   Abu Ali #36 re Violence 00:59  |  Abu Zeb El Tawil 10/05/07
  58.   Abu Ali 01:00  |  Barry 10/05/07
  59.   Deborah # 9 01:10  |  ChanahS 10/05/07
  60.   No Comments From the Peanut Gallery About 01:18  |  Eli 10/05/07
  61.   Clickfool`s Favorite TV Character Killed Off the Air 01:32  |  Tex 10/05/07
  62.   Palestinian "Freedom of the Press" 01:45  |  Tex 10/05/07
  63.   AS a Christian so is Judaism 01:53  |  American Patriot 10/05/07
  64.   "pure evil" = Zombies, indwelt zombies. 01:56  |  scarry 10/05/07
  65.   A cry for help? I cannot imagine they thought this would go 02:09  |  Virginia 10/05/07
  66.   You all know the censors are BUSY on this one! 02:18  |  Thanks 10/05/07
  67.   # 35 Suicide to take over the world!? And this makes sense how? 02:27  |  rrrrrrrrriiinnnggggg 10/05/07
  68.   If they hate us so much why do they steal are cartoons? 02:34  |  Efox 10/05/07
  69.   60 ELI,the israeli in the picture was doing what his conscience 02:35  |  lakshmi 10/05/07
  70.   Don`t mess with Disney lawyers! 03:54  |  Ryan 10/05/07
  71.   Lakshmi # 68 and Fanning the Flames 05:02  |  Eli