A Mickey Mouse look-alike named Farfur appears weekly on "Tomorrow’s Pioneers," a children’s program presented on the official Hamas station, Al-Aqsa TV. According to Palestinian Media Watch, a squeaky-voiced Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa’, teach children about the importance of daily prayers and drinking milk, while taking every opportunity to impress upon the young minds Islamic teachings of world supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US, and support of "resistance," the Palestinian euphemism for terror.

Farfur tells children they must pray in the mosque five times a day until there is "world leadership under Islamic leadership," and the earnest and soft-spoken Saraa’ explains that the nucleus of this world Islamic leadership will be from "all of Palestine," which the maps make clear includes all of Israel. Farfur refers to Israel as "the oppressive Zionist occupation" which he exhorts children to "resist" (see above).

Saraa’ impresses on the youngsters that, after death, they will have to answer to Allah for what they did or did not do for the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and for Palestinian prisoners.

Farfur’s version of the Mickey Mouse Club farewell song goes like this (really): "Allah willing, this country, its children, its men, its women, and its elderly—will win—we will win, brothers. We will win, Bush! We will win, Sharon! Aha, Sharon is dead. We will win, Mofaz! Mofaz left. We will win, Olmert; we will win, Condoleezza —we will win!"

Minnie (and Disney corporate attorneys), call your office.

While Farfur and friends are plotting how and when to throw Israelis into the sea, Israeli Vice-Premier Shimon Peres has an idea that could make it easier for them. Last month, at a conference entitled "The Sea as an Economic Resource," Mr. Peres, who, as Minister of Defense in the mid-1970s, approved the re-establishment of the first Jewish communities in Samaria, suggested Israel stop investing in Judea and Samaria, and, instead, build artificial islands in the Mediterranean as a way of increasing Israel’s "very narrow waistline."

Unfortunately for Mr. Peres’s plan, the Israel Union for Environmental Defense says the idea gravely threatens the future of Israel’s tranquil Mediterranean waters and sandy beaches.

The difference between a neurotic and a psychotic is that the neurotic builds castles in the sky; the psychotic lives in them. Mr. Peres is building utopian castles in the sea. If he wants to live in them, he might give Farfur a call.

In March, BBC reporter Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza by the same "activists and militants" his station adores. Last month, one of the terrorist groups freely operating in PA territories announced it had murdered him as an act of protest against the Israeli occupation of Gaza, which, as Prof Steven Plaut pointed out, the BBC has yet to discover has ended. Obviously having had quite enough, Mr. Johnston’s colleagues in Britain’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) decided to take a stand—in favor of terrorism. With 35,000 members, the NUJ officially declared it would henceforth boycott tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges, and other products from Israel.

Columnist Zev Chafets wondered if the boycott might mean British journalists will no longer be allowed by their union to talk to Israelis. As an Israeli, Mr. Chafets said he thought this seemed a lot to hope for, but, he said, he expects the Jewish state to encourage the boycott by asking all British correspondents stationed in Israel to leave, preferably via Gaza. There they can happily interview Farfur.

Have a wonderful Shavuoth, everyone. S.L.R.