Imagine my surprise.

When the terrorists of Fatah announced yesterday that the degenerate, evil Mickey Mouse clone had been dropped by Hamas TV, they were lying: Hamas TV refuses to axe contested kids cartoon.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Hamas-run television channel has defied a Palestinian government request to axe a controversial children’s cartoon in which a Mickey Mouse look-alike urges resistance against Israel.

A senior official working for Al Aqsa (Jerusalem) television in the Gaza Strip said that the program - “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” - would air as normal this Friday in defiance of information minister Mustafa Barghouti.

“The program will continue and it will be broadcast tomorrow at 4.00 pm [1300 GMT]. Mustafa Barghouti misunderstood the issue,” said the official on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Earlier, the information ministry in the West Bank city of Ramallah said: “A politically-oriented children’s television program was withdrawn by the Al Aqsa TV station today following a request by the ministry of information.”

(Hat tip: LGF readers.)

UPDATE at 5/10/07 9:21:40 am:

The international media are absolutely disgusting and reprehensible with this story; they’re doing their level best to whitewash and minimize the impact, and it’s shameful beyond belief.

Palestinian children stand in front of a mural depicting Mickey Mouse as they hold Islamic and Palestinian flags in the West Bank village of Hawara, south of Nablus, in 2006. A Hamas-run television station defied Israel and the Palestinian government on Thursday by refusing to axe a controversial children’s puppet show in which a Mickey Mouse lookalike calls for resistance. (AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)

The media have now completely covered up the fact that “Farfur Mouse” doesn’t simply “urge resistance against Israel”—the mouse also talks about an Islamic takeover of the world. All mention of this part of the abomination is now gone from the media’s reports.

Here’s the video clip; see for yourself what they’re hiding from you: