The game Intifada is one of the few reality games produced in Israel. This game, which was created in 1989, was programmed by Mike Medved during the first Intifada. It attempted to simulate the relationship between the behavior of a single Israeli soldier faced with Palestinian demonstrators, and between government policies. The goal of this game is to scatter the demonstrators while killing and injuring the fewest Palestinians possible – by using various means of scattering demonstrators such as wooden clubs, rubber bullets, tear gas etc. The political picture evolves in the course of the game. The Minister of Defense is replaced, and the government policy towards the demonstrations changes – as does the soldier’s ability to react. The Israeli soldier in this game is a reflection of a given Israeli world view: He is portrayed as a single soldier facing a charging crowd, a human and moral individual attempting to avoid unnecessary carnage, while his enemies are portrayed as bloodthirsty terrorists. The Israelis, according to this world view, are always the few fighting the many, David facing Goliath.
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