Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The Tele Hamas Style

What ever your views about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I think that we can all agree that children probably shouldn't be exposed to blatant one-sided propaganda at such a young age.
NY Times
As he[Hazim Sharawi, stage name Uncle Hazim] describes it, his television show, which begins in a few weeks, will teach children the basics of militant Palestinian politics - the disputed status of Jerusalem, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the Palestinian refugees' demand for a right to return to the lands they lost to Israel in the 1948 war - without showing the violence that Hamas's pursuit of those goals entails.

The show will alternate between Uncle Hazim and his animal characters in the studio taking live phone calls from children and video clips recorded outside. Mr. Sharawi said he would leaven the sober and pedantic material with fun and games, including such standards as egg-and-spoon races, eating apples on a string or "tug of war, which will show children that the more you cooperate with others, the more you win."

It's like the Mr. Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, and Seasame Street all rolled up into one!