Hi Everybody,

So a while back one of the dtoid editors posted something about a hezbollah game that was released, and a relatively lengthy political discussion ensued in the comments. now this here doesn't have anything to do with videogames, but i really want to know what the destructoid community thinks of this. at the time, the destructoid regulars seemed to be quite liberal and were fine with hezbollah releasing a game, while the noobs weren't (i'm judging this on the fact that people who had avatars were ok with it, and people without them were crying about how hezbollah were terrorists).

so personally, i'm palestinian, and i've lived in the arab sector in israel for the majority of my life (14 years - i'm actually moving tonight to boston to start my college career), so i actually experience a lot of the things that go on here first hand, which makes me most supportive of peace than either nation's cause, since every little thing here revolves around the war. for example there are about 2 million palestinians who were displaced in 1948 and still don't have homes. Unfortunately almost nobody from the west or even within israel seems to know this, even though the 2 million refugees is the biggest issue. the only reason that peace hasn't been made so far is because israel does not want to do anything with the refugees, while the palestinians aren't willing to consider a lasting peace without the refugees finding a lasting home.

so yeah, i'm really curious as to what people think about the problems here... and don't limit yourselves to just the israeli/palestinian conflict! anything that's fucked up in the middle east would make for an interesting discussion...

and don't worry about offending anybody with a differing point of view... if they can't handle it they shouldn't be part of the d'toid community in the first place.

and sorry i don't have a graphic up top. i couldn't find anything that would fit well without making it seem like a silly post.