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'Sesame Street' Returns to Israel
Newsday ^ | 4/30/07 | BEN WINOGRAD

Posted on 04/30/2007 6:15:59 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim

JERUSALEM -- "Puppet regimes" are back in the Middle East. Once again, they're promoting peace, diversity and the importance of brushing your teeth.

New episodes of "Sesame Street" are going on TV in Israel and the Palestinian territories, producers said Sunday, years after the original versions signed off because of a lack of funds.

As with the popular U.S. program -- designed to enhance basic educational content for youngsters -- producers tailored the Mideast casts and story lines to the fit the audiences.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: sesame

1 posted on 04/30/2007 6:16:00 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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2 posted on 04/30/2007 6:21:31 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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...New episodes of "Sesame Street" are going on TV in Israel and the Palestinian territories...

I give it a week before there is a Jihad against Bert and Ernie

3 posted on 04/30/2007 6:22:01 PM PDT by txroadkill
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Am I the only one who remembers the rumors about Ernie dying of AIDS?


4 posted on 04/30/2007 6:22:50 PM PDT by Clemenza (NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values! RUN FRED RUN!)
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5 posted on 04/30/2007 6:24:25 PM PDT by Clemenza (NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values! RUN FRED RUN!)
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6 posted on 04/30/2007 6:24:54 PM PDT by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.htm

 

7 posted on 04/30/2007 6:30:45 PM PDT by txroadkill
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so oscar living in a trash can is representative of how the arabs in judea and sumaria (so called made up palastinians) actually live? or am i being just a tad politically incorrect and too close to the truth?


8 posted on 04/30/2007 6:43:09 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (everybody's shot. drive the truck)
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Is Kermit The Frog’s girlfriend, Miss Piggy, in the cast?


9 posted on 04/30/2007 7:41:18 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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