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Hamas takes swipe at Fatah using cartoon hero

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  • After killing off its Mickey Mouse-lookalike, Hamas has turned to another Disneyesque character — televising a cartoon with a “Lion King” wannabe to portray the Islamic group’s victory in the Gaza Strip over the Fatah movement.

    The cartoon depicts Fatah members as sneaky rats, brandishing guns and being showered with US dollars, while Hamas is portrayed as a confident, calm lion that resembles Simba in the 1994 Walt Disney Co. movie The Lion King.

    The five-minute video, titled A message to the criminal gangs in the occupied West Bank, is the second production of the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV enlisting a famous Disney character.

    Hazem Sharawi, an executive with Hamas TV, said the cartoon of the lion vanquishing the rats was broadcast Thursday but quickly pulled off the air for revisions. He said it was “flashed” for one day to counter what he called anti-Hamas propaganda coming from Fatah in the West Bank.

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    The cartoon also was posted on the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors the Arabic media.

    The piece shows rats trampling over Gaza, burning houses, stepping over homes, uprooting trees, firing at mosques and desecrating the Quran.

    Throughout the video, the lion silently watches the rats, preparing his claws and shaking his mane. When he pounces, the rats flee in terror as he knocks them about with his claws. Injured and limping rats then say: “Off to the West Bank.”

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