PA Uses Microsoft Music for Hate Video [PLO terrorists use sound track from Halo]

Israel National News ^ | 13:15 Feb 02, '04 / 10 Shevat 5764

[yonif]

IsraelNN.com) According to the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research organization, the Palestinian Authority has lifted music from a popular Microsoft Corporation video game and incorporated it into a video inciting against Israeli soldiers.

As PMW director Itamar Marcus reports, "Palestinian Authority TV has taken the music of a new popular Microsoft video game, Halo, and incorporated it into its newest hate video. According to Microsoft, Halo is being used by PATV without its permission."

Marcus explains, "For many years, a mainstay of PATV has been the repeated broadcasting of hate videos for children. Dominant themes have been the portrayal of violence as heroic, death for Allah (Shahada) as a goal for children, and the depiction of Israelis as murderers."

The current short video superimposes targets on images of Arab children, implying that Israeli soldiers are targeting and killing the children. As reported by PMW, "The Halo hate video has been broadcast hundreds of times since November 30, 2003, as a filler between programs – as often as six to seven times a day."

PMW wrote to Microsoft Corp. asking for their reaction to the incorporation of their video game music track as part of PA incitement.

Microsoft Customer Service wrote to PMW, "As a corporation, Microsoft does not maintain any involvement with activities of this nature. We were not aware of any media from the Palestinian Authority nor was permission granted to incorporate the Halo soundtrack as background music."

The video incorporating the Halo music can be seen on the PMW website.

[yonif]

Ping.

[yonif]

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[JohnnyZ]

It's a pretty good game. I'm terrible at it . . .

[Phantom Lord]

Halo. The greatest video game ever.

[yonif]

We play it all the time on campus.

[NativeNewYorker]

First they f*** with the Chosen People, then they take the anti-US side every chance they get, then they turn down 90+% of their demands to go murder more innocents, and now...and now.. they pick an intellectual property fight with Microsoft. My g-d, can we RETIRE the Darwin awards now?

[pikachu]

Wouldn't be interesting if Micro$oft brings down Arafat and the PA over this? After fifty plus years of battle, the Palistinians are wiped out by Bill Gates.

Hye Bill, Kil Il Jong has a prirated version of Bob and WIndows 3.1. Sick 'em!

[JohnnyZ]

We must continue playing it . . . or the terrorists will have won. ;)

[toast]

"Santa" brought an Xbox for the kids this year. I play co-op with my youngest. The blood is blue so I don't understand the "M" rating.

But the wife gives me the look everytime I play with him. ("Throw a grenade in there and quit runnin me over")

[MP5]

I agree. Can't wait until HALO 2 finally arrives.

[macrahanish #1]

Does Trent Reznor have anything to do with the soundtrack for the game? He labels all his music with ascending "Halo" numbers.

[yonif]

I agree. Can't wait until HALO 2 finally arrives.

BTTT

We play 16 players here on campus, with XBOX's on the network.