In one themed room, visitors are faced with two interpretations of the intifada. A Syrian game called The Stone Throwers offers a sort of digital martyrdom, as the player takes the role of a lone Palestinian resistance fighter armed only with rocks against waves of Israeli soldiers.
Next to it is the Israeli game, Intifada. Here the player becomes a single IDF soldier facing stone-throwing demonstrators. In dealing with the demonstration, players must bear in mind the army's public opinion rating, and refrain from using live ammunition. If they cause casualties, the government is voted out of office, and available weaponry is reduced for the next game.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
TALK ABOUT REALISM!
From: How video games became the latest weapon in the Middle East(David Lasserson, The Telegraph, February 14th, 2007)
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This is a really good idea, let's pit our best video game player against theirs. Winner takes all, loser cleans out his locker and goes home.
Palestinian "resistance fighter" ?!?
Now that's Orwellian. What in the world are the Palestinians "resisting" ?
From the perspective of distance and history, the only things the Palestinians have successfully "resisted" are peace and self-determination, both of which have been on standing offer since 1948.
Even the Iraqi terrorists have a more legitimate claim to being "resistance fighters" than do the Palestinian terrorists, since the U.S. isn't promising to leave if the Iraqis behave, whereas the Israelis would love to be able to put down the sword.
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