"Kill The Israelis" video game for kids

[A.J.]

Hizbollah presents "Special Force 2" which lets kids reenact last year's Hizbollah-Israel conflict (http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=191114&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30153).

[ChrisTheCop]

shouldnt this be in games and sports?

i just downloaded the demo on hezbox360.

[A.J.]

Yeah, I thought of that --- or the Basement. But since it was politically motivated I put it here.

[ChrisTheCop]

well, since ya wont laugh at my joke(s)...I'll tackle it from the intended political angle.

while at first, ones sensibilities shudder at the thought of such a game, with the exception of time passed, is there any difference between this and the war games we play on xbox where we're killing germans and japanese people (and even arabs in some games based on the Gulf War)?

it's a game based on a historical event. and while, again, there are still people suffering from this event's outcome, coupled with the fact that we may not agree with the poliitics of the Hezbollah party, I see little difference between it, and say...battleship.

[A.J.]

Sorry - I thought you were being serious (in the first part). It's hard to tell sometimes.

[Yerdaddy]

I agree with Chris - it's not like we don't market our war games to kids and it's also not like it's a suicide bomber game. It looks like, in the game the object is to kill Israeli soldiers who had invaded Lebanon. Sure it's not going to have a bonus point round where you shoot Katusha rockets at Israeli civilians any more than in our games we torture Iraqis in Abu Ghraib for bonus points. It's a war game and, like ours, it's a sanitized version of the horrific events that wars really are.

What's with this guy though:

Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) president Mohammed Al Maskati disagreed with the game being sold in Bahrain, saying, it was teaching children that violence was an acceptable way to solve a situation.

"Fighting and war equals violence - this game is teaching children how to be violent, whether they are Israeli or Hezbollah," he told the GDN.

"It is a problem if it is sold in Bahrain, children especially between 12 and 18, behaving violently is equal to drugs.

"Why sell these games to the youth and family? We have more problems from all these wars in Iraq, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon."

Mr Al Maskati said the game was also against human rights because such violations had happened in Lebanon and Israel.

"This tells people we can't make peace in the world. It is telling them you must stay in the war," he explained.

"If there is no peace, then there is no democracy or freedom."

Mr Al Maskati said he was against any game that promoted violence and war, because it wasn't teaching anything positive.

Doesn't he know that capitalism is freedom and war is peace? Crazy Arabs!

[A.J.]

"It is a problem if it is sold in Bahrain, children especially between 12 and 18, behaving violently is equal to drugs."

Nah, the good drugs make you mellow out.

[MrPink]

I hear bin Laden is making a game called Grand Theft Alqaeda

[ChrisTheCop]

I hear bin Laden is making a game called Grand Theft Alqaeda

Grand Theft Tora Bora, perhaps?

[A.J.]

AN online petition calling for a ban on a new Hizbollah computer video game for children has been launched. (http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=191863&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30159)

[Bulldogcakes]

while at first, ones sensibilities shudder at the thought of such a game, with the exception of time passed, is there any difference between this and the war games we play on xbox where we're killing germans and japanese people (and even arabs in some games based on the Gulf War)?

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