Palestinian kids aspire to 'blow up the Jews'

A Palestinian television show features two interviewees in military fatigues who declare their aspiration in life is to "blow up the Jews."

They're about 6 years old.

The boys appear on a children's show moderated by a girl who is not much older than they are, reports the Middle East Media Research Institute, a nonprofit that spotlights reports from Middle East media.

MEMRI said the show was on Al-Aqsa TV, the official channel of Hamas, the jihadist organization that governs Gaza.

The moderator asks one of the boys, Muhammad, about his poetry.

"Who taught this poem, Muhammad?" the young moderator asks.

His mother, said Muhammad Ali Zakariya Al-Astal.

He then recites:

Oh Jerusalem, I shall redeem you with my soul and my blood.

I shall liberate you from the Jews by means of the Al-Qassam Brigades, of course.

I bring glad tidings to our prisoners: Salvation is near.

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Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Muhammad said he wants to become a member of Al-Qassam Brigades, the so-called military wing of Hamas.

Another interviewee, identified as Zakariya, said he wants to be an engineer "so that I can blow up the Jews."

"You want to blow up the Jews? No, we want to blow up the Zionists. You mean the occupation, right? Okay, so that is why you want to become an engineer?" the program hostess said.

Islam expert and blogger Pamela Geller commented, "Islamic Jew-hatred – it's pure Islam."

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