Yes, this is an actual video game. "Disengagement, the video game" from Ynetnews, with thanks to JS.
Left-wing activists behind 'Day against Occupation for Democracy' introduce politically themed game to internet: Move the settlers.The organizers of the "Day against Occupation and for Democracy," which will occur on June 17, have found a creative new way to get across their political message – by way of a free, Flash game on the internet that allows users to play IDF soldiers removing settlers from the territories.
"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 need only click on it once, but when the caravan turns into house, two clicks are necessary 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 do have their limits, though: Those who toss Israeli soldiers into the sea do not get any points.
Once the soldiers are removed, the settlement can be taken down, but it is an almost Sysiphean task as the settlers keep on coming back to rebuild.
If the player loses the game, the screen displays a particularly bitter message: "One more settlement and the country is lost."...
From the same creators: The "Transportation" Game. See how many Jews you can cram onto cattle cars as you "resettle" (i.e. murder) them in "the East". Bonus points for non-Germans who collaborate with the Nazis. Score six million points, and you get a free game.
It's just wonderful, isn't it, how these self-proclaimed defenders of freedom, justice and equality have bought into a Juden Frei middle east run by despotic, myscogenistic Islamists. There are certainly racist apartheid regimes in the Middle East, but Israel isn't among them.
The Iraq war is now a drain on men, materiel, money. The prating about "democracy" ("they'll be so busy fixing potholes they won't have time for anything else") goes on, and the huge train on our money, men, materiel, and morale of both soldiers and civilians continues, and as they drain away, the will to continue to oppose the world-wide Jihad, even in places where military force is entirey unnecessary and inappropriate, drains away with it.
But one great achievement will take place: Israel will, because of the idiotic and ruthlessly undemocratic behavior of that pathetic man, Ariel Sharon, who does not understand Islam (he never did; like most Israelis, he was so busy fighting individual Arabs that he never had time to figure out why the Arabs opposed Israel -- and substituted for thought the pointless phrase"they don't want us here" which of course tells Israelis, and us, nothing).
In 1978-79 the United States had a splendid opportunity. Had the American government understood Islam, it might never have pressured Begin into giving up the entire Sinai, for the second time, to Egypt (a country which came to possess most of the Sinai only in 1922, for those of you who continue to believe that history matters). Instead, the Americans might have insisted that it be the United States that would be given, or leased for 99 years, the entire Sinai, so that it might take over that territory that has served as a invason route toward "Palestine" and that, with American forces all over, would be so no longer. The Americans might also have taken over, lock, stock, and barrel, the three modern airfields that Israel had built. But Carter, possibly the worst president in our history, and Brzezinsky, a nasty piece of work and the shallowest and most banal of "strategic" (to use the adjective he used to drop into every second sentence, as if by using the word, it somehow came true) thinkers, were -- and are -- completely uncomprehending of Islam. Completely. And Begin, of course, the pathetic Begin (assuring himself, and the world, in defiance of all the evidence, that Carter and Sadat "like me, they really like me" played the fool, and gave them everything they wanted.). The whole thing was a miserable spectacle; the Camp David Accords a disaster, or as ZB would have us say, a "strategic" disaster.
We threw out the chance for secure bases -- after having had our bases in Morocco, and Libya (Wheelus) taken away, and those in Saudi Arabia, of course, are there only so that American airmen can do the bidding, and protect the skins in case of need, of the House of Al-Saud, all daggers, dishdashas, and disdain for the American "help."
The American government will, next week or next month or next year, have to conclude that the Iraq "Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations" Project won't work. Because it won't. And if the administration does not conclude this, the people will conclude it for them. And the entire effort to defend against the world-wide JIhad will suffer if we wait too long to close down the Iraqi operation, and to coldly exploit the fissures within Iraq (Kurd vs. Arab, Sunni vs. Shi'a) which can only be fully on display once we leave, and not while we stay to protect one Iraqi group from another.
The United States, large and powerful, will recover from its misunderstanding of Iraq, of "Iraqis," and of Islam. But meanwhile it will be too late for the hapless people of Israel, who will have given up their villages in Gaza (they long ago gave up the rest of Gaza). They have failed to make, and we have failed to help them make, their considerable legal, moral, and historic claim to the territory of Western Palestine, the territory which, by the terms of the League of Nations mandate, was intended not for some dreamy "two-state solution" (a farce) but for one thing, and one thing only, the establishment of the Jewish National Home. We need not here repeat that the Arabs got all of Eastern Palestine, or 78% of the territory the League had originally envisioned for the Palestine Mandate. We need not repeat here that 22 Arab states now exist when only one Arab State was foreseen at the breakup of the Ottoman
Empire.
But what we can foresee is this: the withdrawal that Sharon envisions will lead not to more peace but more war, more disruption, more swelling of Arab and Muslim pride that they have the Infidels on the run. And those who in Europe, or America, think that they can buy time, or buy off, the Muslims from a world-wide Jihad by throwing Israel to the wolves are very wrong. They have it exactly wrong, exactly backwards. And unlike the Americans, who can get out Iraq and let nature take its course there for the benefit of Infidels -- i.e., undo their mistake -- the Israelis will have no way to undo their mistake, or rather, the mistake of Ariel Sharon, and of the American government that is involved in this assisted suicide.
Hugh:
Did you see yesterday's review on FrontPageMag.com (originally published in the New York Post) of Kenneth Levin's new book, The Oslo Syndrome. Whether or not, as it's a fairly short piece, I am pasting below as other bloggers may also find this an interesting insight into what Sharon may be responding to:
Israel's Deadly Delusions
By Edward Alexander
Nypost.com | June 13, 2005
THE OSLO SYNDROME: Delusions of a People Under Siege
By Kenneth Levin
Smith and Kraus, 352 pages
In this massively researched, lucidly written and cogently argued narrative, Kenneth Levin tells the appalling story of what has been called the greatest self-inflicted wound of political history: Israel's embrace of Yasser Arafat and the PLO in the Oslo Accords of September 1993 and its dogged adherence to its obligations under them even as its "peace partner" was blatantly flouting its own.
The book is divided into two sections. The first recounts Jewish political failure in the Diaspora, where Jews lived with a constant burden of peril, as the background for the self-deluding rationales that engendered Oslo. The second traces the same self-delusions in the history of Israel itself.
Levin shows how a tiny nation, living under constant siege by neighbors who have declared its very existence an aggression, was induced by its intellectual classes to believe that its own misdeeds had incited Arab hatred and violence, and that what required reform was not Arab dictatorship and Islamicist anti-Semitism, but the Jews themselves.
Reversing cause and effect, Israeli leaders blinded themselves to the (obvious) fact that it was Arab hatred and aggression that repeatedly led to Israeli occupation, not occupation that caused Arab hatred and violence.
Although Levin argues strongly that Israeli leaders like Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak and the ineffable Shimon Peres hallucinated moderation in a murderous enemy, his book is not a polemic that excludes all opposing points of view; on the contrary, we get the fullest possible account, and "in their own words," of those Israelis (and their American-Jewish supporters) who deluded themselves into believing that Oslo would bring a new heaven and a new earth.
When the accords were signed in 1993, Minister of Education Shulamit Aloni announced that "no more parents will go weeping after the coffins of their sons" and Israeli novelist and "peace activist" Amos Oz said confidently that "death shall be no more."
And all this because Arafat had - not for the first time - promised to renounce terror and recognize Israel's "right to exist." It was the used Buick he had already sold several times over.
By autumn 2000, and as a direct (and in Levin's view entirely predictable) result of Israel's endless unreciprocated concessions to Arafat's demands, the country was faced with Intifada II, "the Oslo War," in which all Israel became a battlefield, and getting on a bus or going to a cafe or a disco meant risking your life.
One of Levin's central themes is the influence of Israel's cultural elites on the governments of Rabin and Barak. In Israel as in America the motto of many intellectuals is "the other country, right or wrong"; but whereas in America leftist intellectuals now aspire only to take over the universities, in Israel they aspired to (and in one sense did) take over the government.
The consequence: Israel was soon reminded of Churchill's judgment of England's intellectual appeasers: "Mr. Chamberlain was faced with a choice between surrender and war; he chose surrender, and he got war."
Hugh et al,
Further to the above -- Levin's point appears to be that the Ashkenazic Jews (at least, if not the Sephardies, Yemenites and other "oriental" Jews) brought with them to Israel the seige mentality they developed in Europe which stems from the guilt Jews are told they should forever bear for Christ's crucifixion and refusing to convert to Christianity.
"brought with them to Israel the seige mentality.."
-- from a poster above
Is that a charge, or a hope? I think the Israelis at this point do not have enough of a siege mentality. For god's sake, they are under siege. "The Siege" was the apt title that Conor Cruise O'Brien chose for his book on Israel. The Jihad against Israel is a relentless siege. Sharon's problem, and that of many Israelis, is that they fail to understand why they are under siege.
It is not because of the non-existent "Palestinian people" wishing to have their own little state. It is not because territories which were part of the Mandate for Palestine, and to which Israel has a legal, moral, and historic title superior to all other claimants, are called "occupied" by the BBC, NPR, and so on.
No, it is that until recently, no one in Israel had taken seriously the fact of Islam, the tenets of Islam, the opposition to the existence of Israel that is not based on some competing nationalism (those "Palestinians" as some of the local Arabs are named, and even these "Arabs" are in large part the descendants of arrivals from Egypt (Mehmet Ali's troops), Algeria (Abd el-Kader's troops), Bulgaria (Muslims left high and dry when the Ottoman tide receded), and Arabs from Egypt and Iraq who flowed in to take advantage of the economic opportunities that the Zionist renewal afforded them.)
There is nothing wrong with a siege mentality when you are under siege. But you'd better understand the motives of those besieging you, to figure out if there is anything you can do to placate them. In the case of Muslim Arabs, there is nothing you can do -- no territorial surrender, no buying off with ecoomic development schemes, nothing. Oh, they'll pocket what they can get, and then come round for more and more. That's it. Face up to it. Better now than later.
AHHH!!!
But it is the Jews who are saving the Christians from a fate worse then Death??
Slavory to the islamic monsters!!!
REMEMBER Jesus was a Jew and taught Jewish law to the non Jews???
It was even a Jews who gave us the means to win WW2 How many Jews worked on the bomb???
The warning has been rasied what will they do??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN
PS
Today 65 yrs agao today the French awoke to a german voice saying you are now under German control in Paris!!!
Israel is certainly under seige and from many quarters. However, a siege mentality becomes a problem when it leads you to blindness and panic. And I'm afraid Israel's siege mentality is doing just that.
I agree that Israelis, who range from simply being contemptuous of Arabs, particularly Muslims, to suffering from "Patty Hearst Syndrome" on the moonbat left, don't know squat about the history of Islam and the role it played in opposing Jewish immigration to the region long before there was any notion of building an independent Jewish state.
Hugh-
I never understood why, in 1967, the victorious Israelis didn't force their mortal opponents (-who were defeated but still living inside of Israel-) OUT ...and into neighboring Islamic lands (Egypt and Jordan, primarily).
They had that moment, and lost it.
Then in 1973, again.
Why they accepted an internal warrior movement- against their own interests- within their own country, I still can't fathom.
If they had expelled the internal enemies, the "world" would have howled and condemned this "ethnic cleansing", but they howl and condemn Israel over everything anyway.
It might as well have been for something real -that also preserved the land at the same time.
Now, it is only a matter of time before the Arab Muslim population becomes the majority inside Israel.
Of all people, you would think that the Jews had learned not to assist in their own extermination AGAIN. (They had some shining examples of resistence at Sobibor and Warsaw as guideposts.)
But, it seems more like they are falling back onto the sword/lesson of Masada, instead.
The U.S. will offer them asylum, this time, at least, instead of the shameful treatment it gave them in the 1930's.
(Refusing these quintessential refugees entry to America, or even shipping them back -to their doom- whenever they tried to escape the Reich.)
The Suicide of Tolerance.
The Suicide of Tolerance.
Wait, what? kt committed.... nahhh, that can't be right!
Might explain why he seems to have vanished, what with all the unanswered posts you guys have out there for him.
Ganymede, that was a Joke.