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“Google Bans 'Bomb Gaza' Game, Allows 'Bomb Israel'”
by Arutz Sheva   
August 6th, 2014
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Google has removed from its Google Play store games in which the player plays the part of the IDF bombing Gaza, but continues to offer a game in which rockets are fired at Israeli civilians.

According to TIME, a game called Rocket Pride, which is available on Google’s Play store, lets players provide “support for the besieged Gaza Strip” by firing rockets at targets in Israel.

Meanhile, a game called Bomb Gaza was removed. One plays the game as the Israeli Air Force, “tapping a touchscreen to pour red-nosed bombs into a 2D multi-level landscape filled with cartoonish people wearing white robes and clutching children — meant to signify civilians — as well as others draped in black, clutching rifles, touting greenish headbands and grinning maniacally,” reported TIME.

The goal is to hit the black-garbed terrorists while avoiding the white-clad civilians.

The game was released on July 29, but removed a week later from Google's Adroid Store. “It’s not clear why,” TIME says. “Google’s only officially saying what companies like it so often say when handed political hot potatoes: that it doesn’t comment on specific apps, but that it removes ones from its store that violate its policies.”

Another game, dubbed Gaza Assault, was also removed, as was Code Red, which is about dropping bombs on Palestinians using Israeli drones. Its designers describe the game as “[bringing] you to the forefront of the middle-east conflict, in correlation to ongoing real world events.” Yet another game, Whack the Hamas, targets Hamas members as they pop out of tunnels. It, too, was eliminated.

A game called Iron Dome is still available on Google’s Play store. It lets players intercept incoming rockets using Israel’s famous missile defense system. 

One of the developers behind “Bomb Gaza” told the Daily Beast that the “game was a joke made in 2 hours.” 

“It is based on avoiding killing civilians,” Roman Shapiro, the developer said in an email exchange. “As usual, Jews are demonized by everyone. Not surprised."

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