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There was actually a similar show on Palestinian TV up until about a year and a half ago, which featured a guy in a rip-off Mickey Mouse suit spouting the same kind of indoctrinating, kill-the-Jews crap. When one of my best friends was in college, about five or six years ago, the foreign minister of the PA came to his college to lecture, and, when confronted about why they permitted this television show to air, calmly asked,
"Don't you have educational TV in this country? Your public television would never cancel 'Sesame Street.' This is the same thing."
I am a little surprised to hear myself saying it, but ustwo is really kinda right about this. Terrorists = Bad. Pretty much what it comes down to. And I have to say, I've been in Israel for half a year now, and I watch their television. I have never seen any kind of kids' show that advocates violence in any way, much less giving kids a designated target and encouragement to be suicide bombers. As far as I can see, although the Palestinian problem is widely discussed in everyday Israeli society, most people shun extremist answers. I wish I could say the same for the folks on the other side of the fence.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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