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Posted on Feb 14, 2008
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Warner Bros. might take issue with this character, Assud the rabbit, who recently debuted on the Palestinian kid-targeted program “Pioneers of Tomorrow” and bears more than a passing resemblance to WB’s Bugs Bunny. The similarities stop there, as Assud says he will “get rid of the Jews” and will “eat them up.” Assud is the latest in a line of deceptively cute and fuzzy “Pioneers” characters—following martyred Farfour the mouse and Nahoul the bee—to take up Hamas’ cause in its long-standing clash with Israel.

Editor’s Note:  After experiencing a moment of cognitive dissonance upon first viewing this clip (fuzzy bunny ... eating ... Jews?!), we contacted an Arabic-speaking Truthdig contributor, who affirmed that this translation is accurate. 

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By Luke, March 5, 2008 at 5:07 am #
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Thank you Mr. Bacon for actually thinking for yourself and revealing the other side. This gives me hope that others might start questioning the motives of U.S. controlled media rather than giving in to fear and hate propaganda.

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By lilmamzer, February 19, 2008 at 8:11 pm #

You have a Jew-problem, and it’s a very advanced case.

But I have no sympathy for your condition - only distaste and a special kind of loathing reserved for weak-minded bigots and bullies.

The good part is that Jews, and their national homeland of Israel aren’t going anywhere, and piss-ant schmucks like you Greg Bacon can’t do a damn thing about it.

You may think you can, but just try. You just might get your sorry ass shot up with made-in-Israel 5.56x45.

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By lilmamzer, February 19, 2008 at 7:58 pm #

Nevertheless, the connection between Haj Amin Al Husseini and Hitler is a matter of fact and historical record. It is no surprise that this so-called Grand Mufti was Yasser Arafat’s uncle, as Arafat did his best to carry on the work of Hitler in his own way.

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By lilmamzer, February 19, 2008 at 5:31 pm #

Watch Non-Credible as he tries to defend the indefensible barbarity of the Gazan Arabs. No matter how gruesome the Arabs’ genocidal intent and practice, this turd is there to blame it on the Jews every frickin’ time.

There hasn’t been a Jew “occupying” Gaza in years. No occupation. Oh, I hear it now - controlling the sea and air access is “occupation” - well, that’s a mild form of defense when the Gazan Arabs are incessantly lobbing thousands of rockets at Israeli kindergartens and sending in the homicide bombers to blow up the granparents as well.

But I digress - back to the Blame The Jews game - where were we?

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By Conservative Yankee, February 17, 2008 at 4:43 pm #
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“Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and volume 2 in 1926. .... In Mein Kampf, Hitler uses the main thesis of “The Jewish peril” to advocate extinction.

THERFORE: Haj Amin could not have “brought the Holocaust idea to Hitler.” In 1941 as it was already there, and had been acted on during On November 9 and 10, 1938 during an event called Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). Shortly (within days) of this event the deportation of Jews began in Austria and Germany.

Of course there are also other books besides Main Kampf and Koran which advocate genocied, one being the bible.

“Of the cities of these peoples that the Lord thy God Giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but though shalt utterly destroy them” (Deut 20:10-18)

Then there is Glenn Reynolds who writes we should eliminate all Iranians.

As a matter of fact there are literally hundreds of books which advocate genocide, against scores of folks who have to some degree experienced it. Native Americans, Africans, Chinese, Jews, Japanese… and on and on.,,, to even southerners after the War of northern aggression!

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, February 17, 2008 at 3:13 pm #

I thought I’d make a list of peoples my gov. taught me to hate.  I’ll start with the Redskins.  They were the worst, savages.  Then there are:
Anyone with brown, or so, skin, unless they excel in sports.
The Germans
The Italians
The Poles
The Irish
The Japanese
The Koreans
The Soviets, aka Russians
The Cubans
The French
Iraqis and other sandpeople
Absolutely, the Mexicans, the dispicable Mexicans,
The Venezuelans and, finally, now, most of all, the Islamo-fascist neo-radical militant Muslims of any nationality.
Plus,
Anyone poor, especially if they’re trying to immigrate.

I hasten to add that my parent’s refusal to devalue any other human or living thing has helped me to offset gov. hate propaganda. Now, if my gov. could just give me one good reason why I shouldn’t hate it, then I’d be a more complete person.  Or, anyone else out there in God Bless Americaland?

Oh, I forgot.  We’re getting hush money in the form of a $600 tax refund (hot off the printing presses.) FUKKERZ! Slap my face!

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, February 17, 2008 at 12:16 pm #

This is not simply a Jew/Palestinian issue at all.

What chance does the world have when adults of any nationality teach hate to their children? 

The media ought to admit their penchant spreading hate and stop it.

And the US should refuse to be part of this everywhere, but of course, our gov. wrote the book on hate. We’re the Masters.

Do you suppose that was put on YouTube for all us do gooders to tsk, tsk at?  Fukkin’ hypocrits!

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By Conservative Yankee, February 17, 2008 at 11:31 am #
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From at least WW I we have used cartoon characters to promote war and bad feelings. The German with the forked tongue in WW I The Japanese with the big-teeth and glasses, and we can’t forget Buggs himself as a WW II soldier.

It is natural to have cartoon characters engaged in war.  Get over it.

....and as for “enticing children into war” the USA would never do that.

Am I disgusted?  Of course / Am I surprised.. NO

I sure wish the worlds children could grow up as I did, but that’s a dream beyond reach.

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By Johnny Smith, February 17, 2008 at 8:15 am #
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Too many people are afraid to question what is spoon-fed to them by the war industry. What exactly is our infatuation with being Israel’s big brother. Our interference in the middle east is exactly why the Arab world hates us and why we are targeted for terror attacks.
Don’t be mislead by the tired, old conservative mantra that it’s our freedoms that they hate. In the 21st century, many nations actually have more freedoms than we do, and we surrender more and more every day. The democratic Congress and republic administration just made a shambles of the 4th amendment, one of the original bill of rights. ALL in the name of national security.
Benjamin Franklin stated that those who would give up freedom for security deserved neither.

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By Greg Finkel, February 16, 2008 at 3:24 pm #
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Ivan Ivanov, Russia
milwaukee.indymedia.org

In 1920s-30s, Palestinian Muslims committed massacre of Jews in Jewish land of Palestine murdering thousands of children and civilians.  The murder was organized by the founder and supreme leader of the Arab Higher Committee, Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, and supported by British Administration of Palestine.  The massacre was, in reality, the Holocaust committed by Palestinian Arabs in compliance with Islamic Koran which demand killing Christians and Jews.

Haj Amin was close friend of Hitler.  In 1941, Haj Amin came to Berlin and visited Hitler.  He brought the Holocaust idea to Hitler.  In 1943, Amin organized Bosnian Muslim battalions in Croatia comprising some twenty thousand men.  The battalions were put in Waffen-SS units, fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia; thousands of Serbs, Roma (‘Gypsies’) and Jews hunted down by Haj Amin’s SS troops were killed by those same troops, or they were sent to the Islamic death camp Jasenovac.  After the WWII, the International tribunal declared Haj Amin was crime criminal; however, he escaped prosecution, fled to Egypt and then Palestine where he organized Fatah.  After his death in 1974, Arafat, who was Haj Amin lieutenant, became Fatah commander.  He organized PLO.  PLO and Fatah committed numerous murders around the world killing American and European Christian and Jews.

From 1948 to 1953, Arab countries expelled almost million Jews and stall their properties.  Laws of some Islamic countries ban Christians and Jews from living there, in compliance with Koran.  In 1999, Kosovo Liberation Army stormed homes of the last 15 Jews in Kosovo’s capital, who had to clear out, with just the clothes on their backs


The above is only a minuscule part of Islamic criminal and murderous history; however, it is more than enough to conclude that:

Islam is Fascism
Koran is Islamic Mein Kampf

The world literature knows only two books calling for total elimination of people based on their ethnicity or religion:

1.  Main Kampf by Adolf Hitler and
2.  Koran by Prophet Muhammad

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By simon, February 16, 2008 at 2:02 pm #
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How would you like your neighborhoodbombed with rockets, and suicide bombers blowing next to your family…
the palestinian send their women and children to blow themselves up, the leaders don’t set the examples.
in Iraq, muslim sects kill each other. suicide bombing in Europe and all over the world…
if you approve of that then go and blow yourself up in your neighborhood.

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By Greg Bacon, February 16, 2008 at 11:11 am #

Congratulations, your brainwashing program is now complete.

From now on, anytime you hear the word “Israel”, you’ll automatically think “Good. Double Good.”

Anytime you hear the words “Arab/Muslim/Palestinian”, you’ll automatically engage in the State Mandated “Two Minutes Hate.”

A further bonus is that you’ll get to ship off your sons and daughters to fight more wars for Israel and pay ever higher taxes to support these wars.

“Way to Go, America.  We told you what to think and you obliged. “

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By Flanders, February 15, 2008 at 6:54 pm #
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Do you speak Arabic?  If not, then all I hear is blah, blah, blah.  I trust this publication got the translation correct and have no reason to think it is missleading.

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By Michael Stone, February 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm #
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Another Arabic speaker confirmed it. Is everyone but Hamas and you (Mr. bacon) a lier?

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By Jim Yell, February 15, 2008 at 12:04 pm #
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As moslems continue to kill, on purpose, their young children, either using them for bombs or as collateral damage, sadly many aren’t collateral damage but targeted—why wouldn’t I believe that the Palestinians are using a cartoon character to reveil their lack of character.

I am ashamed of our current administration and many in congress for the gangsterism that we have unleashed, so why should I give islamic gangsterism a pass? I don’t think so.

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By Greg Bacon, February 15, 2008 at 1:34 am #

This video was on the odious Glenn Beck show. Damn near anything that Beck utters or shows should be taken with a grain of salt, especially this video which was translated by MOSSAD asset, MEMRI, as the following documented info from Source Watch shows.

Issues of reliability and veracity

MEMRI is operated by a group closely associated with the Israeli intelligence organizations. Now, in an article in Haaretz, we find that the Israeli Army has sought to plant stories about “terrorism” in the press, and

“Psychological warfare officers were in touch with Israeli journalists covering the Arab world, gave them translated articles from Arab papers (which were planted by the [Israel Defense Forces] IDF) and pressed the Israeli reporters to publish the same news here.”—Amos Harel, IDF reviving psychological warfare unit, Haaretz, January 25, 2005.
This should raise a question or two about the reliability and veracity of the stories peddled by MEMRI.

This is what Prof. Juan Cole had to say about this:

“So is MEMRI, which translates articles from the Arabic press into English for thousands of US subscribers, in any way involved in all this? Its director formerly served in… Israeli military intelligence. How much of what we “know” from “Arab sources” about “Hizbullah terrorism” was simply made up by this fantasy factory in Tel Aviv?
As someone who reads the Arabic press quite a lot, this sort of revelation is extremely disturbing.

Founders

MEMRI was co-founded by Meyrav Wurmser and Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, “both of whom were early critics of the Oslo accords.” [6]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Middle_E ast_Media_Research_Institute

Those familiar with the pack of liars that lied America into invading Iraq should recognize the name of Wurmser.
Meyrav Wrumser is the wife of David Wurmser.

David Wurmser replaced Eric Edelman as Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney in early September 2003, after Edelman was named Ambassador to Turkey. [1] [2]

Wurmser, a neo-conservative, previously served as a “special assistant” to John R. Bolton at the State Department and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). [3][4]

On September 4, 2004, the Washington Post reported that FBI counterintelligence investigators had questioned David Wurmser, along with Harold Rhode, Paul Dundes Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith about their involvement in passing classified information to Ahmad Chalabi and/or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Wurmser

If MEMRI told me the time of day, i wouldn’t trust their veracity.

Have we already forgot the last time MEMRI pulled this stunt in May 2007, when the character looked like Mickey Mouse?

Even CNN was forced to admit MEMRI’s translation was wrong.


http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2007/05/lies-of-memri-ye t-again.html

This latest from MEMRI is just more lies and propaganda, designed to get the U.S. to fight yet another war for Israel, this time against Iran.

When that happens, Israel will ramp up it’s genocide of the Palestinians and bomb Syria back to the Stone Age.

The U.S. has killed over one million Iraqi’s since 2003.  The Israeli’s have ramped up their ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestiniians and bombed the hell out of Lebanon in 2006, killing over 1,000 civilians.
Israeli’s and their agents have been caught spying on America in the past, with the latest espionage trial due to resume this April.

So, who’s the real terrorists?

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