A bunny character on a children’s program broadcast by the recognized terrorist organization Hamas has been “martyred” but not before he was able to tell child viewers they must occupy Israeli cities.
“We should teach our children that we have a land to which we must return: Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, and Tel Aviv,” said the character “Assud.” “We will return to all these cities, Allah willing.”
This is the same character who earlier on the program was caught stealing and sentenced to having his hand cut off, although the penalty later was lifted because he repented.
The report comes from the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has posted the video on its website, which requires viewers to register and log in.
WND reported earlier on similar programming that once featured President Bush being “killed” as well as a children’s Mickey Mouse-lookalike who also was “martyred” for the Palestinian cause.
The latest episode on the program “Pioneers of Tomorrow”, broadcast on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV, was aired Jan.2, 2009, MEMRI said.
 Arab television character Assud, who on his “deathbed” boasts of his “martry’s” death and calls for the “liberation” of Tel Aviv |
The program features Assud, the bunny character, lying in a hospital bed, with Saraa, who serves as the program hostess, sitting by his side.
“The Zionist enemy is treacherous, and it kills everything, but I never thought it would kill the children of Palestine, and that it would bomb the Al-Aqsa TV station,” Assud says. “As you know, Saraa, Al-Aqsa TV has a special section for children. Children always go there to play and have fun. They come to me and you to listen to beautiful stories for their benefit.
“But Saraa, I went to Al-Aqsa TV when they said it would be bombed. I couldn’t believe it would really be bombed. I went there, and I collected the gifts, books, magazines, and stories, which belong to the children of Palestine, the Pioneers of Tomorrow, so I could remove them before the station was bombed. But Saraa, when I went in – I don’t know what happened. All I know is that they brought me here, to Shifa’ Hospital, and left me here, Saraa. Praise be to Allah.” […]
Assud continued: “Saraa, my will is that you tell our beloved children never to forget Jerusalem, Saraa. You must pass this legacy on to our beloved children. They must never forget Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, the prisoners, or the refugees.
“Remind them, Saraa, that we have a land to which we must return, by means of the steadfastness of the resistance and the mujahideen, by means of the steadfastness of knowledge and the fear of God. Tell them that Assud died as a hero, as a martyr. Tell them that Assud died a martyr’s death, Saraa.”[…]
“We should teach our children that we have a land to which we must return: Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. We will return to all these cities, Allah willing,” the character continued.
“Saraa, I implore you… I entrust you with the legacy of protecting Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the blessed land of Palestine. Listen to me, Saraa: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and the Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,” Assud said.
He then “dies,” and Saraa responds, “Assud… Assud… No, Assud… Don’t die, Assud.”
Saraa then turns to the camera, telling viewers: “Victory is near. The soldiers of the Pioneers of Tomorrow will grow up. Allah willing, we will follow the same path, the path of the scholars, the path of the authors, the path of the learned and the intellectuals. Oh Palestine, we will liberate your soil, Allah willing. We will liberate it from the filth of the Zionists. We will purify it with the soldiers of the Pioneers of Tomorrow.”
MEMRI is an independent nonprofit that provides translations of media reports from the Middle East and analysis of those reports.
The organization previously reported on Palestinian messages to children through Nahoul, the bee who wept over his “martyred” family, and the “martyrdom” of Farfour, the Mickey Mouse-lookalike.
Hamas, which won a majority in parliament in January 2006 elections, officially is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. As WND reported, a prominent Hamas leader has been captured on video boasting of using children, women and the elderly as human shields in its firefights with Israeli soldiers.
WND also reported Hamas launched a children’s website in 2002 that encourages kids to follow the example of terrorist suicide bombers.
How’d Trump do it? Here’s his secret weapon
Wayne Allyn Root