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InchDeep on Friday, July 18, 2008 2:32:09 AM
It also causes the deaths of many Jews. But this little terrorist does not care.
A children's television program - broadcast by the Islamist militant
group Hamas - regularly features disturbing topics such as death,
destruction and martyrdom.
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...critics have accused Hamas of using its television arm to prepare its young viewers to be suicide bombers.
In Jerusalem, the broadcasts are being monitored by a private think tank, the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Menahem Milson, from the institute, says the broadcasts idolise death and killing and "what they call martyrdom".
"What is particularly disturbing with this program is that it is
aiming at very young children with messages that are filled with images
and expressions of death, martyrdom, killing," he said.
Professor Milson is a former Israeli paratrooper and intelligence
officer, who is an expert in Arabic literature and he says anti-Semitic
messages are a regular feature of the program.
"The aims of the indoctrination are narrowly defined," he said.
"It's the repetition of certain clichés: the filth of the Jews. The Jew is not to be trusted. He is murderous. He is deceptive."
Al Azhar TV is not only raising the ire of Israelis, but of many Palestinians as well.
Hazem Abu Shanab from the media studies section of Al Azhar University says the programming changes children.
"He is not a child anymore, he's something different. He's a person
with hatred, with different emotions, with a different way of
thinking," he said.
"No one can imagine that a child, that the childhood, that these
very tiny, good human persons we all love and want them to be the best
people in the world, there they are turning into monsters using these
terminologies and using this way of vindication."
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