Hamas TV seeks new ‘hero

Hamas plans to replace the Mickey Mouse look-alike that was killed off in its controversial children’s program.Reuters this week quoted producers at Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Television as saying that Farfur, which drew international outrage by calling on young viewers to fight Israel and promote radical Islam, would be succeeded by other famous characters. Farfur was a clone of the Walt Disney cartoon.Farfur, the star of a show called “Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” suffered a grisly end last week at the hands of an actor posing as an Israeli security agent. Hamas said he had been “martyred.”