Gaza's political children's show - 26 Feb 08

He is not your average cartoon character, but he is still pulling in the viewers. A bright pink rabbit named Assoud, is the latest cuddly animal on Hamas-run television in Gaza. As Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports, the bunny's message has more to do with resistence and occupation, than carrots or Easter eggs.

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[peakyone]

Hamas is doing a great harm to it's people. The answer to the problem in the middle east is certainly not more viloence. Teaching childrean to hate is just creating another generation that will never reach peace with Isreal. The christians has a policy of turning the other cheek, perhaps that may return better results than terror. I know that I am not there and don't fully understand what is going on but Isreal has a right to exist and Palestine must learn to live with it.

[wrldeye12]

the Palestinians believe that exploiting and abusing their children with politically inflammatory kids shows is more important than securing for them a hopeful future.

These people are in the moral gutter.

[kesra80]

so bad!

[yaronoooo]

stupid.

[lacarneceria613]

chewbaca-

The first 20 years of Israeli occupation were years of relative peace & prosperity for both Israelis & Palestinians..

-Palestinian economy was robust on income from Israeli jobs & commerce.

-Free movement in both directions across the Green Line.

-Palestinians did not experience the poverty due to lost jobs

-No checkpoints

-No wall separated Jew from Arab until the Oslo Accords & the return of Arafat & the PLO to Palestine

PASS IT ON!!

[4aaaaa4]

Israel, the last remaining European colony will soon join its ideaological cohort, Apartheid South Africa, in the trash bin of history.

In 1945-1948, the US-UK Military-Industrial Complex, fearing massive loss of business as a result of the end of WWII, amassed its war left-over materiel in Palestine, transported, armed, trained, and unleashed a bunch of East-European followers of a Nazi-style fanatic sect (Zionists) on the natives to conduct barbaric ethnic cleansing and slaughter.

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[chewbaca1989]

People: Hamas was supported by Israel to offset the PLO.

Child Abuse, when did this begin? Why? What precipitated it? Tough questions.

Oh, I forgot were lazy and stupid in the U.S.

Just forget it.

[mzkaddah]

JAKIE ROLAND THE BRITISH WHO RAPED PALESTINE AND GAVE IT TO THE NEO-NAZIS WITH HER KIND HEART IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE PALESTINEAN CHILDREN AND THEIR MINDS..OH MY GOD!i AM GONNA CRY OUT OF THE EMOTIONAL MOMENT...OH..JAKIE JAKE JUST ASK THE BLAIR DOG TO LAY OFF HIS BLOODY HANDS OF THE PALESTINIANS. I CAN'T BELEVIE EUROPE CHOSE THAT CRIMINAL TO BE A "FAIR BROKER" IN THE PALS CASE.

[Inkan1969]

I said that Hamas was bad to make this show, a lot more specific than "Hamas is bad". Again, you are lying about what I said. You're making yourself look very idiotic by shamelessly embracing stereotypes and resorting to insults that would embarrass a first grader. Did I say I owned a gun, for instance?....

[PauloGVieira]

I call people idiots by sheer virtue of the word's definition and use it when ignorant and simplistic statements, such as yours, are espoused. Admittedly you were idiotic to reduce such a complex situation to a simple 'Hamas is bad' deduction so that makes you an idiot.

As for bigoted stereotypes it is one I really only have for people from your gun-wielding country, unfortunately its reinforced constantly by yourself.