User blog comment:Th3 razor/Battlefield 4 to be set in modern day/@comment-24.143.63.58-20120818025929/@comment-205.147.200.60-20120912131031

Israel's power lies in the spector of Hitler's Holocaust, and the fact that most of the free world is never willing to let it happen again. You combine that with a strong American Fundamentalist Christian mentality about Jerusalem's role in the second coming, and people are willing to overlook just about anything.

For a long, long time Israel was seen as America's sole ally in the mid-East, which is why we shovel money and military aid to them. The people themselves are fanatatical about "never again," and highly motivated, which in turn leads to them being a country of little badasses-cum-bullies. Top it all off with nuclear strike capability (American provided, 'natch) and you end up with what's slowly becoming the oppressed becoming the oppressor (the mirroring of the WW2 ghettoes and the walling of Palestine is a prime example).

That said, Israel's generally a nuisance and its an avowed fact that blowback due to American involvement and support is what's directly responsible for things like the WTC attacks.

No game publisher in their right mind is going to appear to willingly condone any of that. The boycotts from all sides would be astounding.