"Chupacabra--FOUND! On Palestinian Television" joke

Warm and Fuzzy, Palestinian Style

In a rare mainstream media report on the trend of loveable children's TV characters in Gaza and the West Bank exhorting children to kill and maim Jews, it seems the elusive, legendary, bloodsucking creature of Latino lore, "El Chupacabra", has been sighted, and confirmed:

TV bunny rouses Gaza kids

A man-sized talking rabbit appeared on television in Gaza [recently] to denounce Danish newspapers over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that offended Muslims.

The latest in a line of cartoon-inspired characters that take the message of the Hamas Islamist movement to Palestinian children, the actor in the Bugs Bunny-style outfit also railed against "Zionist filth" and Israel's control of Jerusalem.

Aha! So the Chupacabra is an Arabic rabbit, or an Arabbit.

"We will liberate al-Aqsa mosque from the Zionists' filth," said Assud, whose name means Little Lion...

Aha! So el Chupacabra is a cross between an Arabbit and a lion. Indeed, there is much scientific speculation on what kind of cross-breed the Chupacabra is -- whether it's a cross between a dog and a pig, or a rabbit and a dog, but apparently the type indigenous to the Palestinian territories is a cross between a rabbit, a lion and an Arab. Here are some varying artistic representations of chupacabras, as well as photos of some suspected chupacabras, which suck the blood of pets and livestock, much like Assud does to Jews, considered by the natives to be livestock:

Story on this find here.

At last we have solved the mystery: the terrorizing Chupacabra is Palestinian. Sorry, Puerto Rico. Back to Assud:

Though some parents are uneasy about the show's message it has proved popular with children, not only in Hamas-controlled Gaza but also in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. One girl called Rasha said she was phoning in from Bethlehem, near Jerusalem: "Who has sabotaged the world if not the Zionist plans?" she sang down the line to the studio in Gaza. Dancing and singing along, Assud the rabbit chimed in: "They have bombarded us."