Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

January 7, 2009

Israel's controversial incursion into Gaza has sparked virtual protests in Second Life, reports scribe Wagner James Au.

On his New World Notes blog, Au describes the protests taking place at SL Israel, a Second Life area which recreates Israeli landmarks and tourist attractions in virtual form:

Last week when Israel began launching guided missiles at Hamas targets in Palestine... SL Israel became a flashpoint of another kind.  As the airstrikes pounded Gaza, so did protesters, teleporting into SL Israel, waving flags.

"Lots of people yelling," Beth Odets tells me. "They were going on and on with slurring obscenities about murderous Israeli forces, etc."  She gives me a screenshot taken during the incursion, festooned with anti-war or pro-Palestinian signs, some depicting dead Arab children...
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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Edward2 on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:39.

İstanbul'da araba kiralamak için Oto Kiralama sitesinden Araç Kiralama yapabilirsiniz. Bununla beraber Vip Araç Kiralama ve Rent A Car işlerinizi Kiralık Oto sitesinden yapabilirsiniz. Digitürk ve Digitürk Yayın Akışı için Digiturk sitesine girebilirsiniz. Parke modelleri için İstanbul Parke sitesine girebilirsiniz. Kiralık Araçlar için ve diğer Kiralık Araçlar için web sitelerimize girebilirsiniz.......

Thank you informationn..

Jeep Kiralama hizmetleri için kiralik jeep sitesine, Digitürk kampanyalari, Digitürk Plus, İstanbul digitürk bayileri için digiturk sitesine girebilirsiniz. Digitürk kampanyalari için ise digitürk kampanyalari
sayfasına, günlük yayın akışı için ise digitürk yayın akışı sitesine girerek yayın akışını güncel olarak takip edebilirsiniz.
Araba Kiralama, Oto Kiralama ve araç kiralama hizmetlerini yapmak için, şöförlü araç kiralama veya şöförlü minibüs kiralama sayfalarına gidebilirsiniz. Bütçenize göre araç kiralama yapmak istiyorsanız, ekonomik araç kiralama, spor araç kiralama, lüks araç kiralama, panelvan araç kiralama ve
vip araç kiralama sayfalarına giderek kiralık araçlarınızı görebilirsiniz.
İstanbul genelinde parke sitesi olan bahçelievler parke ve istanbul parke sitesine bakarak, parke modellerini görebilirsiniz.
sanalika oyununu oynamak için sanalika oyna sayfasına gidebilirsiniz. Birbirinden güzel hileler için sanalika hileleri sayfasına, en yeni Metin2 Hileleri için ise
Metin2 Hileleri sayfalarına gidebilirsiniz. Hepsinin haricinde digitürk sitesine giderek, digitürk paketleri kısmına giderek digitürk üyelik paketlerini görebilirsiniz.
Bu kadar basit.. Degil..

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by locopuyo on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 03:19.

lol, nubs don't realize is Hamas are just as against furries as the Israelis

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by deuxhero on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 15:25.

Where are the protests about the rockets fired as Isreali schools?

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Mendror on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 20:37.
Last time I check the reason why Israel went to war was because Hamas was firing rockets randomly into there territory and broke the cease fire pact they had.
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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Paladyn on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 13:23.

...And for 6 months before Israel responded. Now everyone's paying attention and yelling at Israel? Seriously, some people seem to think that Israel (and the US) are just mean bullies picking on the poor wittle defenseless Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims/(Insert Group Here). Hamas launched rocket attacked from residential buildings so that whenever Israel responds with an air strike on the launch point, it's bound to kill some "innocent civilians". They then hope civilian death counts add support to their cause.

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Dante on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 01:14.

of course protestors don't care about this.

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Praetorian on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:45.

Just remember:

"War doesn't determine who is right, it determines who is left." -- Mr. Handy

 

 

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by SeanB on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 11:46.

What DOESN'T get protested in second life nowadays?

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by zel on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 15:12.

flying penises

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by zel on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 10:54.

I have a hard time taking anything serious in SL, they may as well be protesting on the flying penis...

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Darmoth on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:16.

Yeah, I wanted to try and put together a joke involving circumsized, flying penises wearing yarmulkes. But I just can't get my joke-mobile started this morning...

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by -Jes- on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 10:06.

Probably going to hell for this one, but..

 

War. War never changes.

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by BrandonL337 on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 19:48.

I'm gonna go with, Same shit, different day.

or alternativly my sig, 

There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008

There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by BrandonL337 on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 19:50.

Oh Oh!

"I'm gonna cut off your head and shit down your neck." 

There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008

There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Derovius on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 00:50.

 Its the tagline for Fallout, not an invitation to spout random soundbits from games of yore.

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Shadow D. Darkman on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:58.

Heh, the irony is, neither side is the good side. This is simply meaningless bullshit that shouldn't have happened in the first place.

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by JustChris on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 00:21.

Both sides seem to act as if they have amnesia on the whole conflict since the beginning. That's why the blame game is never-ending.

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Geoff on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 11:17.

Second.  No one is the good guy in this one.  You got hard-line Jews on one side pushing the rest of Israel to action and you got radical Arabs on the other poking the former with a stick.

In the middle are the innocent and diplomatic.  The former gets slaughtered and the latter are ignored.

Though the Middle East has always been a violent, bloody region.  The only time there's ever been "peace in the Middle East" was when an imperial power like Rome was in charge.

 

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Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Darmoth on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:13.

Pax Romana, my friend!

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Derovius on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 00:49.

 We should have given the Israelites part of Italy, if anything. It was the Romans who fractured their civilization, seems only fitting they deal with the mess generations down the road.

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by Darmoth on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 04:05.

Well, I hear that the Vatican is renting...

Re: Anti-Israeli Protests in Second Life

Submitted by DeepThorn on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:53.

Oh, I need to join in with a sign...   Now what should it say...  Protesters are psychopaths?  EA is the devil?  All war is terrorist war?  Screw it...  I dont feel like downloading SL.  I got it! 

I protest protesters.

Screw it, I don't care anymore...

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