The terror-era has inspired a host of videogames, from the generic terrorists of Counterstrike to Kuma\War’s “reality”-based missions ranging from killing Saddam’s kids Uday and Qusay to defending Abu Graib and even fighting as a Canadian soldier in a recreation of last spring’s deadly Taliban battle.

Then there’s the immensely popular America’s Army, a free government-funded squad shooter that doubles as an unsubtle recruitment tool for the Iraq War.

Naturally, Middle-Eastern gamers are tired of being the bad guys. In the upcoming two-part CBC doc Gamer Revolution (Feb.1 and 7, 8pm) a young boy notes “The Americans…teach you to have fun while killing Arabs. Killing Arabs is not fun. On the contrary, it makes one get really mad. Why are they killing us? Why is it not that we are killing them?"

Syrian game developer Afkar Media wondered this, too. In 2002, they released UnderAsh, in which you play a Palestinian teen-turned-rock-thrower during the first Intifada. But they really, er, blew-up with last year’s sequel UnderSiege, which sold about 100,000 copies.

Beginning in the aftermath of the 1994 Hebron Massacre--a pixilated Baruch Goldstein slaughters Muslims on their prayer mats--the goal of this first-person-shooter is to kill Israeli soldiers. But no suicide-bombings allowed!

When the documentarians asked that same kid about UnderSiege, he replied: “I like the game because it motivates Arabs to unite together to liberate Palestine. All Arabs should play this game. It makes us feel as if we are there and we are the ones shooting at the Israelis and killing them."

“Al-Qaeda-types” are getting onboard, too. Last fall, Global Islamic Media Front released The Night of Bush Capturing which was not a porn but an ironic mod of Quest for Saddam.

Sigh. If only we could all just get along like it was 1989 when--as this gameplay footage recalls--Rambo and Afghanistan’s Mujahideen were, like, totally BFFs.