# The Hamaskateers! P-A-L, E-S-T, I-N-I-A-N! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 8, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303 "2007-05-08T21:16:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/21 "2007-05-09T08:40:12Z")
**Sevastopol** , I’m not sure, but I think you just may have jumped the shark with that last post. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/22 "2007-05-09T14:00:01Z")
Although she has publically disagreed with the Walt Disney Company’s policies in the past, Diane Disney Miller, the only living direct blood relative of Walt Disney\*, has [stated](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/05/09/2007-05-09_mickeys_mockers_pure_evil-2.html) that she is against Farfour- not just because it is her father’s character, but also because of his message of hate. \*Roy E. Disney, a long-time presence in the Disney company, is the son of Roy O. Disney, Walt’s brother, so he is related to Walt, but not directly. ---
**Author:** ![kezami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@kezami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kezami)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/23 "2007-05-09T17:55:22Z")
They’ve pulled the mouse now and replaced it with a dinosaur. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/24 "2007-05-09T22:45:54Z")
[QUOTE=kezami] They’ve pulled the mouse now and replaced it with a dinosaur. 😉 [/QUOTE] Actually, that may be the best thing for them. I mean, honestly, who would be surprised to see Barney advocate death, destruction, and rampant evil? I sure wouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/25 "2007-05-09T23:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=Muad’Dib] Everybody loves an underdog? [/QUOTE] Underdog is a Palestinian, too? ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/26 "2007-05-10T00:02:17Z")
I didn’t know if anybody saw this but apparently too many western news outlets were reporting on this to their liking, and now it’s been [pulled](http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708562209&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/27 "2007-05-10T00:02:42Z")
You know, I haven’t read this thread but I keep singing “Palestinian” in the Mickey Mouse song. It really fits. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/28 "2007-05-10T00:30:58Z")
Well, at least one of their popular [video games](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_(video_game)) is simply about wacking Israeli Defense Forces…and ends if you kill a civilian. That seems to be on a better track than this childrens show at least…and perhaps shows a glimmer of hope that the Palestinian’s are learning? Some hope there somewhere? Maybe? -XT ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/29 "2007-05-11T04:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Underdog is a Palestinian, too? [/QUOTE] Well Simon Bar Sinister does sound like a Jewish name. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/30 "2007-05-11T05:27:06Z")
So does “Minnie”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/31 "2007-05-11T06:01:11Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] So does “Minnie”. [/QUOTE] “Minnie” is Hebrew for “sexual.” Interperate that as you will. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/32 "2007-05-11T06:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] “Minnie” is Hebrew for “sexual.” Interperate that as you will. [/QUOTE] Minnie, Minnie tickles a parson? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/33 "2007-05-11T06:14:52Z")
Won’t even ask about Pluto. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/34 "2007-05-11T11:44:00Z")
Don’t be silly - “Pluto” is meaningless. Now “Goofy”, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/35 "2007-05-11T14:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Are you suggesting that in “the rest of the world” (by which I assume you mean the non-US, non-Muslim world) this television show is meeting with approval? Because AFAICT it isn’t. Hell, even [Palestinians disapprove](http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6618055,00.html) of it: \*Basem Abu Sumaya, head of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., said such programming was inappropriate. "I don’t think it’s professional or even humane to use children in such harsh political programs,‘’ Abu Sumaya said. "Children’s nationalist spirit must be developed differently.‘’\* [/QUOTE] And yet, this is nothing than a mild rebuke for the public’s consumption. Not “professional”? “Nationalist spirit”? Come on. The head of PBC doesn’t disapprove. That’s the sort of thing one fat cat says when another fat cat gets caught doing something that they both were doing. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/36 "2007-05-11T19:02:35Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] **Sevastopol** , I’m not sure, but I think you just may have jumped the shark with that last post. [/QUOTE] That whoosh very nearly got to me, too 😛 The part about the metric system, at least. Then it got a bit more obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/37 "2007-05-11T19:49:37Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] Come on. The head of PBC doesn’t disapprove. That’s the sort of thing one fat cat says when another fat cat gets caught doing something that they both were doing. [/QUOTE] Except in this case, the other “fat cat” is a guy in a bootleg Mickey Mouse costume, whose program budget looks to be about seven dollars. If he’s a broadcasting “fat cat,” I’d hate to see the state of Palestinian public television. “Remember, quality test patterns like this can only continue with viewer support.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/38 "2007-05-12T22:45:20Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Don’t be silly - “Pluto” is meaningless. Now “Goofy”, on the other hand… [/QUOTE] No, Pluto is the most dangerous of all. It is code for plutonium, and it’s about getting kids to think about dirty bombs. Oh, for the good old days, when kids built wholesome CLEAN bombs. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303/39 "2007-07-01T17:08:40Z")
I have some bad news my fellow Dopers. It seems another soldier of Islam has fallen, struck down in his prime by the Zionist Destroyers. Farfour, we hardly knew ye [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19509117/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19509117/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hamaskateers-p-a-l-e-s-t-i-n-i-a-n/403303.md?page=1)