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Birds, Pigs and the mediator (Asi Cohen) posed for a photo shortly before talks broke down.[1]

Angry Birds Peace Treaty is a a mock up peace treaty sketch featuring the Angry Birds in the Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet (in English: a Wonderful Country), one of the nation's most popular TV programs. The video quickly went viral across the world and was popular online.[2]

Plot

The skit satirized recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts and features large puppet versions of the colorful Birds and their enemies, green Pigs, at a press conference to announce a brokered peace deal. In the original game, a flock of the Birds is trying to get their eggs back from the Pigs who stole them. The Birds launch themselves at the places where the Pigs are trying to live or hide. The Birds destroy everything in their air attacks in the game of physics puzzle. Additional, similarly to the Three Little Pigs fairy tale, the Pigs in the game don’t build very well. The video is borrowing from real life politics and also speculates how a peace agreement brokered between the enemy sides might look like.[3]

Going viral

The sketch received favorable coverage from a variety of independent blogs such as digitaltrends.com,[4] hotair.com,[5] and intomobile.com,[6] as well as from online news media agencies such as Haaretz,[7] The Christian Science Monitor,[8] The Guardian,[9] and MSNBC.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Popkin, Helen A.S. (November 22, 2010). "'Angry Birds' fail to negotiate peace treaty". MSNBC. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
  2. ^ Angry Birds, Flocking to Cellphones Everywhere, by JENNA WORTHAM, NYTimes, Published: December 11, 2010
  3. ^ Israeli TV Show Spoofs Angry Birds November 24th, 2010, by Bryan Chaffin
  4. ^ Van Camp, Jeffrey (November 23, 2010). "Israeli Angry Birds satire goes viral". digitaltrends.com. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
  5. ^ "Breakthrough: Peace talks begin to settle bitter longstanding conflict". hotair.com. November 25, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
  6. ^ "The Angry Birds Peace Treaty didn't turn out so well". intomobile.com. November 23, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2010. {{cite news}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "Israeli satire show goes viral with Angry Bird take on peace talks". Haaretz. November 22, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
  8. ^ Shaer, Matthew (November 29, 2010). "Angry Birds bound for Xbox, PlayStation". Retrieved November 29, 2010.
  9. ^ Stewart, Keith (November 23, 2010). "Angry Birds Treaty brings casual gaming into the world of satire". The Guardian. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
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