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Game Over: no points for throwing the Jews in the sea.
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| By israelinsider staff June 11, 2005 |
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Organizers of the "Day against Occupation and for Democracy," slated to occur on June 17, have produced a Flash game allowing players to "disappear" caravans and homes of Jewish "settlers" in Judea and Samaria and to "return" IDF soldiers from the territories -- either to "little Israel" or, if they prefer, into the Mediterranean.
Apparently accepting the Gaza expulsion as a fait accompli, the game producers -- and their illustrious list of left-wing backers -- apparently have moved onto the next step.
"This is your opportunity to remove the settlements and get Israel out of the territories," the game's home page says.
To remove a caravan, the player needs only to click on it once, but if a caravan turns into house, two clicks are required to remove it. The game gets trickier when it comes to removing a settlement guarded by soldiers. "To get rid of a settlement, you have to drag back the poor soldiers who have to guard it back across the Green Line -- to Israel," the game explains.
The game's left-wing developers have imposed some limits, though: Those who toss Israeli soldiers into the sea are not credited with any points.
Once the soldiers are removed, a settlement can be taken down, but caravans and homes continually reappear.
If the player does not manage to expel all the Jews and eliminate all the Jewish homes, the screen displays the "GAME OVER" message and the slogan: "One more settlement and the country is lost."
Supporters of the "Back to Israel" movement which sponsors the game include writer David Grossman, Sami Michael, Writer and President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, playwright Joshua Sobol, and Michael Ben Yair, a former legal adviser to the government.
Neo-Nazi and Arab groups have reportedly expressed interested in licensing the game and localizing it into their own languages.
Those who believe Jews have a right to live in their historical homeland are reportedly considering either legal action to indict the game producers for incitement to hatred, or producing a variation of the game in which the left-wing Israelis and the Arabs are either eliminated or expelled to Jordan and Egypt.
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