Hamas TV Featured Kids Aspiring to ‘Blow Up the Jews’
A 2015 Palestinian kids’ show from terrorist group Hamas featured children saying they aimed to “blow up the Jews.”
Sadly, this is still happening. I reported last July on how a then-new Hamas kids’ show falsely and unhistorically claimed the Temple mount in Jerusalem for Islam, and encouraged children to believe that jihad (“holy war,” or war on non-Muslims, usually involving terrorism) is the “pinnacle of Islam.” A cutesy puppet man urged kids to anti-Jewish terrorism.
“Palestine” has never been a nation, and the “Palestinians” now are controlled by terrorist groups (particularly Hamas, which controls the Palestinian government), that wage constant jihad against Israel, use their own civilians as human shields, and train children as terrorist soldiers. Cute-looking kids’ shows discussing terrorism are one way “Palestinian” terrorists radicalize their children to grow up to be terrorists too.
And yet, despite this obscene child abuse, supposedly pro-freedom Western countries and other countries around the world continue to support and fund the “Palestinian” government, while condemning the Israelis as supposed abusers of the “Palestinians.” Joe Biden boasted about sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the “Palestinians.” Such deliberate support for terrorists who use children as tools is mind-blowing.
On a children's show on the Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV channel, young children, dressed in military fatigues, were asked what they want to be when they grow up. One of the children said that he wanted to be an engineer, ‘so that I can blow up the Jews.’ Another recited a poem: ‘I shall liberate [Jerusalem] from the Jews by means of the Al-Qassam Brigades’…
[Transcript of TV clip:] Muhammad Ali Zakariya Al-Astal: 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…
Palestinian girl, host of the show: What do you want to be when you grow up, Muhammad?
Muhammad Ali Zakariya Al-Astal: [A member of] the Al-Qassam Brigades.
Palestinian girl, host of the show: Of the Al-Qassam Brigades? Fine. And you, Zakariya, what would you like to be?
Palestinian child, guest on the show, Zakariya: An engineer.
Palestinian girl, host of the show: An engineer? Why do you want to become an engineer?
Palestinian child, Zakariya: So that I can blow up the Jews…
Wissam, child guest host: Keep waging Jihad, and Allah willing, when you grow up, you will wage resistance against the Jews…
Palestinian girl, host of the show: The occupation…
Wissam: …bomb the occupation, and the Al-Aqsa mosque will be liberated.
Watch here, courtesy of Memri TV (it is interesting to note that even the female host seems uncomfortable with some of the boys’ comments):
As I mentioned above, the Hamas indoctrination of children involves not just encouraging them to desire to wage terrorism on Israelis, but actually training them while still minors to be active child terrorist soldiers. Hamas is a perverse and murderous terrorist organization, and the “Palestinian” government it controls is little better.