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Child Stabs President Bush to Death and Turns the White House into a Mosque in a Hamas TV Puppet Show Following is an excerpt from a puppet show, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on March 30, 2008. Bush: Who are you? What brings you to my home? How did they let you in, boy? My guards! My soldiers! Get this boy out of here. Child: Nobody will take me out of here. Bush: Who are you to come here and threaten me?! You are on my own turf, you little child, you! Get out. My dear, bring your father, your...

Hamas TV on Friday broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children’s show featuring “Farfour,” a Mickey Mouse look-alike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters. In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, Farfour called the Israeli a “terrorist.”

A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday. In the final skit, "Farfour" was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist." "Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.

Hamas TV on Friday broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour," a Mickey Mouse look-alike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters. In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, Farfour called the Israeli a "terrorist." "Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added. The weekly show, featuring a giant black-and-white rodent with a...

Helping Your Children Cope If Israel Is Attacked By Dr. Batya L. Ludman Israel News Agency Haifa----July 14...... Being in a sealed room or bomb shelter in Israel is not easy for an adult at the best of times, but should we have to go into our shelters today or tomorrow, how can we make this an easier experience for our children? Most children in Israel will cope very well with being in a shelter as they will be with their parents and will therefore feel secure. Assuming that parents remain calm and are in control, children will feel safe....

Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiersBy David Rennie in Brussels The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement. The animation was approved by the family of the Smurfs' late creator, "Peyo". Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was...

UNICEF Bombs Smurfs to Highlight Plight Oct 11 4:07 PM US/Eastern Email this story By HELENA SPONGENBERG Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf's village is carpet bombed by warplanes _ a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters. These are the scenes being shown as part of a new UNICEF ad-campaign on Belgian television. "It's working. We are getting a lot of reactions and people are logging on to our Web site," UNICEF Belgium spokesman Philippe Henon said Tuesday. The...

Here's a poser for you: you're trying to knock together a TV ad highlighting the effects of war on children. What's the plan? Well, you could go down the traditional route of earnest voice-over accompanying footage of said kids miserably awaiting a better life or, on the other hand, you could arm up a squadron of attack aircraft and go and raze a Smurf village to the ground. Let's face it, it's a toughie. Not for Unicef Belgium though, which earlier this week reduced an enchanted Smurf hamlet to smouldering rubble - much to the horror of some TV viewers...

<p>"Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future," said Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, who chairs the Subcommittee on Children and Families.</p> <p>The following tips, courtesy of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, address the psychological and physical needs of the nation's children.</p>

Has anyone else seen this email That is going around the reserve center? It brought tears to my eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don’t Close Your Blinds The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our Country again today. I knew my husband would give him a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go...

For almost three weeks, it’s been impossible to avoid the horrible images and stories coming out of Iraq. It’s been a struggle for adults to understand these events, but what about children and teens? The news and pictures may affect them too — in ways that parents might not predict.

Last Updated: Monday, 22 September, 2003, 12:51 GMT 13:51 UK Children 'distressed' by TV news Children said 11 September was the most violence they had seen on TV Children find violence on TV news more disturbing than anything else on screen, a study has suggested. Children could easily tell the whether violence was real or not - and showed "little lasting impact" from violence they knew was fictional, it said. But major news stories - such as 11 September - had the "greatest effect" on them, the report concluded. Screen watchdogs and the BBC surveyed children between nine and 13...

PHILADELPHIA – John Grant and Frank Corcoran have both been restless this summer, eagerly awaiting the reopening of school. Yet the two men are not teachers and they are not students. Nor are they parents of school-age children. Rather, they are Vietnam vets with a message they long to bring into schools and share with a younger generation. The essence of that message: Don't be sucked into believing in notions of war as glorious and patriotic. War is an evil to be avoided at all costs. Military recruiters and government advertising often dominate access to schools and tell teens the...

<p>NEW YORK — The sight of a child holding a toy gun can strike fear in a parent's heart, but many moms and dads are re-examining their attitude toward children's war-related play.</p> <p>With toy store shelves taking on a decidedly camouflaged look and America engaged in ongoing military conflicts, parents are grappling with whether or not to allow kids to act out war scenarios and how to talk to them about real military actions.</p>

War Through The Eyes of A ChildMy mommy and daddy have gone to fight, To do what they know is just and right.Protestors chant, "No war in Iraq", While my parents fight to bring freedom back. Americans sleep safe and snug in their beds, While my mom and dad endure bombs overhead.They fight for you and they fight for me, So that terrorist threats will never be.Please stop protesting and support the war, So that my mom and dad can open a door,To a future where children will only know peace, Because the bell of freedom will never cease.Pray for...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Muppets have more to offer than lessons on numbers, letters and shapes - now they're teaching children about fear, violence and war. The nonprofit group behind "Sesame Street" announced plans Wednesday to distribute 75,000 copies of a video called "You Can Ask!" that encourages children to ask their parents when they are confused about feelings. The video, paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is aimed at helping children cope with repeated media images of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and other violence in the world. "Too often, children in America are witnessing too...

What are you doing to protect your 3-year-old from the radical anti-war agenda? Aggressive efforts by blame-America educators to indoctrinate college-age students are well-known. But even toddlers are not safe from peacenik proselytizers. Example: The nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators sells a teacher's guide that depicts the famed Blue Angels, our U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron of F-18 Hornet fighter pilots, as heartless killers threatening to bomb innocent American children. According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum standards and day-care accreditation, "That's Not Fair!...

What are you doing to protect your 3-year-old from the radical antiwar agenda? Aggressive efforts by blame-America educators to indoctrinate college-age students are well-known. But even toddlers are not safe from peacenik proselytizers. Example: The nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators sells a teacher's guide that depicts the famed Blue Angels, our U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron of F-18 Hornet fighter pilots, as heartless killers threatening to bomb innocent American children. According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum standards and daycare accreditation, "That's Not Fair!...

Only one of the three groups of fifth-graders at a Brookfield elementary school asked about the war during character education workshops held recently. At a primary school in New Milford, no adults have discussed the war with the children since the United States and Great Britain led the invasion into Iraq on March 19. Some students at a Danbury school are collecting items for a Marine in the war, but the conflict hasn’t worried most on campus. Before the war, school officials around the region sent letters home to parents urging them to monitor their children’s television viewing and coached...