A Hamas-run television station defied Israel and the Palestinian government on Thursday by refusing to axe a controversial children’s cartoon in which a Mickey Mouse lookalike calls for resistance. “Al-Aqsa TV refuses this pressure and refuses to cull its program or alter any of its content,” said Fathi Hamad, chairman of the Al-Aqsa Television board in Gaza City, lashing out at Israeli and Western “interference”. “This campaign of criticism is part of a plan orchestrated by the West and the occupying power to attack Islam on the one hand and the Palestinian cause on the other,” he said. “We have our own ways to educate our children and any criticism of this approach is shocking interference in our internal affairs,” said Hamad. Full Story
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