Hamas’s Al-Aqsa television regularly features children’s programming that bolsters its hostilemessage toward Israel.
The trend continued earlier this month when the station invited a young boy to recite a poem that included descriptions of Israelis as “barbaric apes” and “filth” which the holy city of Jerusalem “vomits.”
The host of the show, a young girl, asked the boy to give his “message to the enemy.”
The boy, identified by the Middle East Media Research Institute as Abd Al-Rahim al-Zarad, dramatically exclaimed, “Oh sons of Zion, Oh the most evil of creatures, Oh barbaric apes, Jerusalem rejects you and vomits your filth.”
Image source: MEMRI
Image source: MEMRI
Image source: MEMRI
Image source: MEMRI
Along with the boy in the studio were three little girls and a giant teddy bear.
Image source: MEMRI
Image source: MEMRI
A MEMRI translation of his recitation included these lines:
You are nothing but herds of deluded idiots. […]
Jerusalem is my land
Jerusalem is my honor. […]
Oh you slayers of Allah’s pious prophets. […]
Humiliation and suffering have been decreed on you.
The poem was called, “I Do Not Fear the Gun.”
Image source: MEMRI
Image source: MEMRI
“I do not dread barbarism, as long as I have my holy book and my city in my heart, as long as my arms (can throw) stones, and as long as I am free and do not sell out the cause,” he added.
Watch an excerpt of the show courtesy of MEMRI: