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SERBIA HAS ANNOUNCED the winning slogans in a competition to help boost the birth rate in the Balkan country, where the population is decreasing by tens of thousands each year.
A campaign to tackle the declining numbers is due to start “soon”, a spokeswoman at the ministry dealing with demographics told AFP on Wednesday.
But government officials have already chosen their favourite slogans from more than 1,000 entries in a nationwide cash-prize competition.
The winner was: “Give birth, don’t delay! Love and babies are what we need first!”
“Mum, I don’t want to be alone. Dad, I want a brother,” came in joint second place, along with the more direct command: “Enough of words! Let babies’ cries be heard!”
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Serbia’s ageing population of seven million people is dropping off by around 36,000 people a year, according to the national statistics office.
In 2016, 100,834 people died while just 64,734 were born. On top of that, a “brain drain” has seen Serbian youngsters flocking abroad to study and work in richer countries.
But the planned campaign to boost births has angered Serbia’s influential deputy prime minister Zorana Mihajlovic, who warned that it could “only be counter-productive”.
“Most of the slogans chosen in this initiative require women to give birth as an imperative,” she was quoted as saying by the local Beta news agency.
Mihajlovic recently came up against the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church on the matters of childbirth and abortion, which is strongly opposed by religious officials.
The leader of the Church, Patriarch Irinej, met President Aleksandar Vucic in October to discuss their concerns over the country’s “very low birth rate”.
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Strange, I’ve not seen imagery of a single destroyed Israeli building.
Why won’t they release them to the media? Surely there must be a lot if destruction in Israel to warrant the huge military force being brought to bear on Gaza.
Release the pictures you miserable Zi0nist ba$tards.
Interesting article on the Sky News site if it hasn’t already been taken done.
Israeli protesters against their own government actions in Gaza getting attacked and receiving death threats.
Gideon levy is the journalist who has gotten death threats from Israeli nut jobs. He has been outspoken on the war since it started. Protesters against the slaughter were attacked and sometimes helped by Israeli police. It’s wrong what’s happening. Can’t the world step in and stop hamas and israel. Why have so many countries just allow this to continue. Is the life of a palestinian not worth the same as a western life. Shame on all world leaders and I hope hamas officials and israeli officials rot in hell for these innocent lives being lost.
The usa needs the destabilising influence of israel in the middle east. Imagine if the area was to become well developed and and peaceful. Then the people there would need more oil than they use now, instead of having to sell it to pay for all these different conflicts.
‘The usa needs the destabilising influence of israel in the middle east.’
So in De Wits make believe world,Kurd and Arab would not be slaughtering each other and Sunnis and Shia would not be slaughtering each other, and Muslims would not be slaughtering Chrisitans, if it was not for those dastardly Israelis.There making them do it. Those dastardy Israelis also forced Saddam to invade Iran, resulting in over 1.5 million dead.
Please don’t comment on the ME when it’s clear you haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.
Yeah, because the us didn’t put saddam into power and then turn against him, didnt support the mujahideen against the ussr then turn against them, didn’t support isis in syria then airstrike them, didn’t catagrically state via gw bush that they would not allow anybody to stand in the way of their energy interests in the region, didn’t try to negotiate a deal with the taliban to bring 2 oil pipelines from russia through afghanistan then turn on them when no deal could be reached, didn’t do any of these things and a hundred others to further destabilise an already unstable region, or did they? Open your eyes scipio.
The US put Saddam into power did they?
So he didn’t rise throught the ranks of the Baath party to eventuallly seize power.
The US put him there.How exactly did they put him there?
I’ll my open my eyes, when you take off the tin-foil hat.
It’s amazing scipio the way you pick the one point out of my post that isn’t common knowledge to try and discredit it, care to try any of the rest of them?
They don’t need proof, just tell the stories with chutzpah, get Hollywood to churn out the propaganda and in 50 years they will have you believing the Palestinians were intent on genociding 6 million Jews. Of course once the mainstream have had 50 yrs of TV and movies along that line, it will form an automatic part of their response to everything, Palestinazi were intent on rocketting poison gas into Isreal, the brave Israeli resistance had to do everything to survive or be wiped out. If you provide evidence to the contrary, you will be labelled a ‘denier’. You get the picture.
‘you pick the one point out of my post that isn’t common knowledge’ Unless you’re about 15 years old, Saddam’s rise to power is common knowledge for anybody who has a passing interest in ME politics.
You discredited yourself when you simplisitcally blamed the USA and Israel for all the problems of the ME.
I din’t blame the U.S. for all the problems in the ME you halfwit, and the fact is that the U.S. supported the baathist rise to power in ‘socialiast’ Iraq post the overthrow of the shah in Iran over fears that the islamic revolution would spread.
I also don’t blame israel for all the problems there either, the enmities between the islamic factions there go back centuries.
But now the situation is completely bizarre. Hamas are supported by Iran, Turkey (member of NATO), Qatar and Syria. Isis are supported by the Saudis who in turn are major allies of the U.S. Iran supports the current government in Iraq and so does the U.S.
The insurgency in Syria was almost immediately taken over by islamic extremists and while the west condemned the assad regime and tried to impose sanctions, Russia tried to warn them they were backing the wrong horse.
So now we have the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel, Egypt, hamas and the muslim brotherhood all sharing a common enemy in isis, who in turn is supported by Saudi Arabia, an ally of the U.S. and a by-proxy adherent to U.S. foriegn policy in the ME.
This is only a small part of the current very convoluted mess in the region. It goes back decades with the U.S. constantly backing different sides and factions.
They definitely aren’t to blame for everything there, but they definitely aren’t doing anything to try and fix it either.
‘Hamas are supported by Iran, Turkey (member of NATO), Qatar and Syria.’
Another factual error, and you call me the ‘halfwit’. Syria and Iran no longer support Hamas due to their support of the rebel faction in the Syrian civil war.
You havn’t a clue scipio, isis came from the rebel faction in Syria, Iran publicly denounced the treatment of the Gazans by Israel 2 weeks ago, you really are clueless. Show me any evidence that hamas support the rebel faction in Syria, a country that has always supported the formation of a Palestinian state.
‘isis came from the rebel faction in Syria,’ ISIS originates from Iraq. Their leader was born ,raised and educated just outside Baghdad.
Hamas are Sunni, the same sect as the rebel forces. At the beginning of the conflict they chose the rebels over Assad, they probably the expected them to roll over Assad quite easily. Hence Hamas whose main office was in Damascus, have beng expelled from govt. controlled Syria. There main office is now in Qatar. The more you speak, the more it is clear you not got a clue what you are talking about.
Hey scipio if it wasnt for us support of saddam during his early days he would never have lasted. Saddam was given the know how for his chemical weapons by the us . He was given technology for developing various biological weapons. It was because of this that the us used the excuse of wmd s in iraq to justify the war in 2003. The us knew he had these weapons at one stage because they gave them to him to keep iran at bay. They just didnt bank on saddam destroying these weapons programmes completely before the invasion. Poor old dubbya was left with egg on his face
So scipio you think this is a Shia-Sunni divide?
Are you aware that the Kurds are predominately Sunni?
Are you aware that Saudi Arabia is predominately Sunni?
Are you aware that Turkey is predominately Sunni?
Are you aware that Syria is predominately Sunni?
Are you aware that Egypt is predominately Sunni?
Are you aware that the taliban is Sunni?
If it was a Shia-Sunni divide how come they aren’t all on the same side?
The Muslim world is fighting fundamentalism, the same fundamentalism that is so fuelled by foreign intervention in the area. The vast majority of Muslims worldwide believe in peace.
Of course the isis leader in Iraq is from Iraq, but this islamic state movement came out of Syria.
Scipio as someone who constantly comments on all things middle eastern on here you are either not as clued in as you think you are or you just ignore some facts for the convenience of your arguments. The fact that the us backed saddam throughout his reign right up to his invasion of kuwait is widely known. Saddam even mistakenly believed he could take kuwait without interference from the us such was his confidence in his relationship with the us. D rumsfeld who was part of the reagan administration and bush 1 administration, visited iraq on more than one occassion and was received warmly as a state visitor, a charge he later denied until photos of him with saddam surfaced later . Ironically it was rumsfeld along with cheney who were the most eager officials to champion the false claims of saddams weopon programmes. And to really blow your mind the fact that after the first gulf war saddam started to limit western companies control of his oilfields, companies such as bp were going to be phased out and russian and chinese oil exploration and refinery companies were to be given access to unexplored oil fields in western iraq is also widely known but largely ignored by western mainstream media. So scipio which is it? Are you just brainwashed and niaive ? Or do you just ignore information that would complicate your support of western and israeli aggression in the middle east?
The CIA backed the coup that put Saddam into power and they also gave him intel in the Iran-Iraq war. this is all common knowledge to anyone who studies military intelligence and strategy.
Well done on the crushing insult jop, only took you an hour and a half to come up with it, or did someone else do it for you? I only ask because it is well beyond the cranial level of your usual yammerings.
Palestinians are being herded into town centres to be slaughtered.
“Another reason was given by a neighbour, Abdullah al-Daweish: “Where do we go to? Some people moved from the outer edge of Khan Younis to Khan Younis centre after Israelis told them to, then the centre got bombed. People have moved from this area to Gaza City, and Gaza City has been bombed. It’s not Hamas who is ordering us in this, it’s the Israelis.”
Among the UN’s long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost unbelievable accusation that Israel’s refusal to share its Iron Dome ballistic missile defense shield with the “governing authority” of Gaza – i.e. Hamas, the terror group created to pursue the extermination of the Jewish state and now waging a terrorist war against it – constitutes a war crime against the civilians of Gaza.
French-Moroccan Imam Criticizes Hamas: It Uses Palestinians as Human Shields, sorry this is not from Hamas FGM106 but instead its from French TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqt_XbjYEKo#t=49
‘Israel created Hamas because they wanted opposition to the Palestinian Authority’
Another factual error popularly propagated by western leftists. The Muslim Brotherhood of whom Hamas are the Palestinian branch have been around since the 1920′s, decades before the birth of Israel.
yes, its incredibly sad.
Yesterday the American ‘comedienne’ Joan Rivers launched into a horrific hate filled rant, against the people of Gaza saying ”Palestinians deserve to be dead”
There has been no media condemnation of her words. Rivers (who is Jewish) knows she can get away with saying whatever she wants. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/joan-rivers-palestinians-deserve-to-be-dead-9656554.html
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel,” he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat.
“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat,” he said to some laughter.
Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, also said that the lives of non-Jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to Jews.
While some condemn his remarks, it is a culturally ingrained philosophy.
They call non-Chosen Ones goyim (cattle) they can do whatever they want to the goyim.
Remember they own Hollywood and put into your mind their idea of the world and world history.
Wow, Ciara, a comedian has been making jokes about the Middle East, what is the world coming to??? I am going to start condemning Israel because of this, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Now I see how Jewish hollywood comes up with such gore and lies about Germany, pure propaganda gore-fest machine, sickening. Eli Roth and his torture rape “hostel” trash an example.
This is the worst kind of anti-Semitic lies. I can’t believe this is being passed off as truthful. I’ve been to israel lived there and known many very religious Jews and they believe g-d loves all his creations equally and that a soul whether Jewish or gentile is equally as important. They believe not that they are superior but that they are to be a light unto the world. A beacon of light in a world of darkness. That’s what they are in the Middle East surrounded by barbarians who murder there own people, hang gays and stone woman. Shame my countrymen can’t see behind the headlines and realise who is at fault for most of the violence around the world today. Look at Iraq and the thousands being slaughtered there. Or Syria, or Africa with the boko haram, I suppose that’s not fundamental Islam it’s israel too right? Or Libya or stoning woman in Saudi Arabia and hanging gays in Iran. Must be Israeli plot huh. What about Chechnya those Muslims are just innocent too huh. Or the honor killings in Pakistan. Just a cultural thing huh. Israel refuses to live next door to an armed terrorist state, they will not open their borders to let the suicide bombings of the 80s and 90s start all over. They agreed to open the crossings if Hamas disarms and allows in UN peacekeepers after 6 months of calm.
Fognostical – you applaud Genocide on these pages constantly and now you become an apologist for this obnoxious human being too !
You really must be an extraordinarily twisted individual too – Are you ?
Israel have refused outright any possibility of un peace keepers. They have refused to lift the blockade and refused to open the crossings. Palestinians have been calling for a un force for a number of years now but osrael kno if they are deployed it will limit their ability to keep confiscating palestinian territory
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at least some politicians are calling a spade a spade. there is a friends of israel group in the dail. its worth finding out there members and giving them a call.
Legendary Jewish comedian Jackie Mason puts his own slightly politically incorrect spin on it, by saying “Jews aren’t threatening people. I’ve never seen a group of black guys walk down the road and say to themselves ‘Shit, we better cross to the other side, there’s a group of Jews heading this way!’”
“Yet, Jewish terrorism undermines Israel’s foundations as a democracy and portrays it instead as a lawless state.
It gives the impression that Israeli justice and law enforcement agencies use what English writer George Orwell termed “double speak” (in his prescient novel, 1984). One set of methods and laws is used to counter Palestinian terrorism, and a very different set is deployed against Jewish terror.
One law applies to Israel in its pre-June 1967 borders and another to the military-administered West Bank which is known to most of the world as occupied.
No less worrying, double speak and double standards distort Jewish values and tarnish the image of Israel among enlightened nations.
The Shin Bet unit which is tasked with countering Jewish rightwing radicals knows who are the spiritual leaders – the rabbis- who sanction the acts of violence, who are the commanders who issue the orders, and who are the foot soldiers who carry them out.
Yet, the failure to stop the violence lies not only on the doorsteps of the Shin Bet. It is a comprehensive one, a failure of the entire system. The blame has to be shared also by the police, the military, the attorney general, the state prosecutors, the Ministry of Justice and the courts.
In short, it is a colossal failure on the part of successive Israeli governments, which for years turned a blind eye or simply tolerated various degrees of political violence and hate crimes used by Jewish settlers against Palestinians.”
That link is to a mickey mouse site and not acceptable to the dhimmi. Only Al Jazeera and iran TV past the test for truth and later today they will be replaced by Radio Hamas on FGM106
As long as they continue to fire rockets, Israel will respond. They are engaging in war, whether you people wish to admit it or not. It’s clearly a one sided war but Hamas are culpable in every single death and they quite clearly don’t give a sh*t. If the rockets stop, Israel’s demolition project will have to stop too.
Yeah, stop firing rockets and just accept your internment, accept the illegal land grabs, accept the constant harassment as the world stands by and does nothing. Just stop firing rockets and everything will be fine.
Well we all know what the Z***ist Master Plan is don’t we? Get rid of as many Palestians as possible by any means possible! All the better to get rid of them while their still children.
And before all the hasbara bullies and their many new recruits come on to spout your lies and propaganda, don’t waste your time, anyone with half a brain is wise to you here. Enjoy your blood money but don’t forget karma!
No land grabs around Gaza. The Israelis pulled out years ago, yet Hamas keep lobbing those rockets, and as long as they do, the Israelis will keep retaliating.
Maggie Thatcher always said she wouldn’t negotiate with ‘terrorists’. But there could never be peace while the brits continued to treat the catholics in the north as second class citizens, interned them and gave them legitimate reasons to resist. Most Irish people detested the actions of the ira when they killed innocents, but they knew it would never end until the stronger party came halfway and were prepared to accept some blame. If thatcher was still in power Northern Ireland would still be a war zone. Instead they have power sharing and ‘mostly’ peace with dissidents being treated as outcasts by both societies. When the israelli people face up to the fact that they are governed by extremists there may be some chance to stop all this, otherwise there are just 2 possibilities, keep the gaza strip interned forever with sporadic conflicts or total annihilation of the Gazans. There can be no peace until both sides come to the table.
‘When the israelli people face up to the fact that they are governed by extremists there may be some chance to stop all this’ Did you type this with a straight face while ignoring the elephant in the room that is Hamas? It’s the Palestininas who need to eject Hamas. They’ve brought them nothing but and destruction and they have been abandoned by the rest of the Arab world esp.Egypt who have had enough of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam in general.
Yeah scipio, and israel have now ensured that even if hamas are ejected their place will most likely be taken by an even more extreme organisation. The idea that you can have peace and security by creating more and more enemies is beyond stupid. As soon as israel killed what they deem as a ‘human shield’ they made themselves no better than hamas. It is incredible that they claim the deaths of the civilians killed by high tech israelli ordinance as victories for hamas and yet continue unabated, if these deaths are victories for hamas, why are israel giving them more?
Mad Maggie at it again, Karma works in many ways, tell your Jihadi chums it works like this, fire rockets at Israel then the IDF will fire back at you, no rockets no retaliation, really is quite simple Maggie.
jop you forgot to add even if they don’t fire any rockets at all the idf will never stop harassing palestinians and israel will never stop illegally settling their lands. The reality is that whatever sympathies the international community has for israel, given the awful centuries of persecution the jews have suffered, is rapidly changing into abhorrence at the wanton slaughter of civilians and specially children.
John Ging the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations confirmed on Radio-Canada July 30, 2014 that Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza fire their rockets into Israel from the vicinity of UN facilities and residential areas.
No land grabs? There is now a 3 km buffer zone around gaza and it is not on the israeli side of the fence either. 40% of the gaza territory is now under israeli control and this buffer zone takes in nearly all the arable land that gazan farmers used to make a living. Since the last invasion before this farming is nearly non existant because anyone venturing into this no mans land will be shot by the idf who monitor it constantly. So to say there is no land grab is erroneous at best
Don’t think so De wit, your friends in ISIS are showing the world the true nature of Islamic Fundementalism, the West is finally waking up to this threat as are the Arab countries.
Hey jop i didnt read anywhere in dewits posts that he was friends of isis. So you and your shill friends just constantly label critics of the israeli policy and their war crimes as being supporters of these headcases on a feeble attempt at discrediting them. You are a simple fool. The only supporters here for extremists are those who constantly excuse and justify the murder of children by the idf/ iaf. Your support for the right wing extremist government of nuttyahu is nothing short of support of state terror.
@Jop as an atheist I abhor religious fundamentalism of any kind, at this moment I see no difference between isis slaughtering children and the idf slaughtering children.
Those three mono-theist middle eastern religions are the blight of humanity. Old testament Jewish stories about slaughtering entire populations (King David seemed particularly blood thirsty), Christian medieval Europe with the witch murders and inquisitions, the rampaging armies of Islam all over North Africa and the middle east. The crusades. Now the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian children.
The never ending ‘my creed is right, believe or die, God wills it, chosen people, Allah will reward you blah blah blah terror’ seems like it will never end.
It takes the individual to stand up and say ‘I will not kill that child’.
Gaza City’s Greek Orthodox church which was sheltering 2,000 displaced Palestinians at the time, was used by members of Hamas as a launching pad for rockets fired at Israeli territory, according to Archbishop Alexios, Gaza’s most prominent Christian leader.
Turkish Prime Minister Recip Erdogam repeated a much loved Islamic poem when he spoke to his people, “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the Muslim faithful our soldiers.” This has long been established Islamic practice – mosques are fortresses, military bases and knowing the West’s (and most certainly the Jewish people’s) reverence for houses of worship off limits them to retaliatory attacks.
The mosques, the imams are part of the military structure of Islamic jihad.
The Israeli war machine has completely demolished at least 60 mosques during more than a month of bombardment in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said in a Friday statement that 20 mosques were destroyed in Gaza City, 17 in Khan Younis, 11 in the northern Gaza Strip, 10 in the center, and two in the southern city of Rafah.
Israeli tank shelling and air strikes have also left 150 mosques partially damaged, said the statement.
If Hamas are siting rockets in mosques, the Israelis are going to hit them. It’s a win win from the Hamas point of view. It creates martyrs and it enrages their fellow Muslims when they mosques being destroyed.
Thing is though Frank, you support Assad, and he his armies have no qualms about destroyng mosques if they are being used for military purposes.
The quote from your usual cut and paste is from Christian Broadcasting News a channel founded by bible bashing Pat Robertson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson who amongst other things ” has cautioned believers that some Protestant denominations may harbor the spirit of the Antichrist;[43] prayed to deflect hurricanes;[44] denounced Hinduism as “demonic”[45] and Islam as “Satanic.”[46] Robertson has denounced left-wing views of feminism,[47] activism regarding homosexuality,[48] abortion…” oh and God reguarly gives him economic and weather forecasts.
Way to go with credible cut and paste quotes as usual!!!! LOL.
The Christian population of Gaza is less then 1500, and like the any other region where Islamism has taken root, there numbers have been steadily declining.The only region in the Middle East where the Christian popultation is increasing is Israel.
Scipio will Israel allow hundreds of thousands of exiled Palestinian Christians to return to Palestine. So far it continued to violate UN resolution 194 requiring it to permit all Palestinians to return.
“Netanyahu also spoke about the radical Islamic forces – ISIS – which are moving fast towards Baghdad. He likely wrapped them in the same bundle with Hamas, but that’s not the case. Hamas is the most bitter and efficient rival of ISIS” Efraim Halevy
“Anti-Christian prejudice helps account for the fact that the number of Christian Palestinians in all of former Palestine had dwindled to only 50,000 in 1995. They no longer were a major presence in either Jerusalem or Ramallah, and they were fast losing their majority status in Bethlehem.
When Israel was established in 1948, the Palestinian Christian community had numbered 200,000, compared to roughly 600,000 Jews in Palestine at the time. Now the Christians are not even one percent of the population of Israel/Palestine. Of today’s estimated total 400,000 Christian Palestinians, most now are living in their own diaspora, mainly in the Americas.”
Plenty of conspiracy sites being quoted by the dhimmi today, matching their numerology fantasies, I think their next source of crazy ideas will be chicken entrails or phrenology .
And robertson also believes that the west should back israel until the temple is rebuilt and that eventually the total destruction of israel is then a necessity to bring about the second coming of christ. Ironic source for your info fog ? You expecting your z!onist vision for greater isreal and some of greatest allies relishing the complete destruction of said vision all in the name of religion
Archbishop Alexios pointed out that Hamas were firing rockets from his church grounds and all you dhimmi can come back with is slurs on him and other Christians ? So someone at CBN is a Bible thumper so what ? So this Robertson said something bad about Gays? At least he does not hang them from cranes or hack their heads off as does the Hamas/Brotherhood/ISIS/Boko gang that the Irish dhimmi are cheer leaders for.
Mosques that have weapons in them are no longer mosques, they are weapon storage facilities, why do I have to write this??? It must be obvious even to the Jihadi supporters on here.
Hamas is just another franchise of head-hackers unlimited as it spreads to where people are too weak to fight it. The West is slowly waking up but still needs to confront this head on.
An Imam in Berlin told his congregants, “Count the Jews and kill them to the very last one.”
Similar speeches have been made in Italy and Australia by these RoP clergy.
Fognostical ..A hand full of resistance fighters with home made pipe bombs verses the most ruthless regime / 4th largest nuclear equipped army on the face of this planet……….Get a grip..
BTW Israel Created Hamas as an excuse to annihilate GAZA off the map.
Hamas have M-75[ almost identical to their Iranian supplied Fajr-5 rockets and the Syrian-made TM-302 rocket that can launch a 375-pound warhead as far as 125 miles.
Fog ..If they had these weapons they would have been used by now….show us images of damages from these sofisticated “pipe bombs”… you can’t because they don’t exist. These claims are made up lies by Israelis propaganda machine to justify more child killing.
Hamas have M-75[ almost identical to their Iranian supplied Fajr-5 rockets and the Syrian-made TM-302 rocket that can launch a 375-pound warhead as far as 125 miles. Iron dome has thankfully brought down most of them. You can find photos of them on Radio Hamas FGM106.
That’s classic, post a cartoon entitled “Terror in School” by a pro Israel group of animators. The thing is that the real terror in school is the terror of the children in Gaza schools with limbs blown off, blinded, burnt and terrified, wondering what they did to deserve their pain and suffering. Maybe if pro-Israelis watched less cartoons where no one gets hurt and started looking at real life and real hurt then maybe they would stop killing children and stop the real “Terror in School”.
It is indeed a classic and unlike the Islamofascist selfies has no head-hacking in it yet it manages to show hoe Hamas provoke then cry when the get a reaction. Do the dhimmi prefer the real life head -hacking movies? What a pervert way to carry on, looking at people dying.
Jop is that a fact. Hamas didn’t fire a rocket into Israel since 2012 until Israel assassinated some of it’s leaders this year. Israel used the deaths of the three teens as an excuse for this atrocity.
Great. Another article on Gaza, closely followed by some well – reasoned commentary from the journal readers. I feel sure that my opinion will be changed this time.
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Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development 143 partners can use this purpose
Use limited data to select advertising 113 partners can use this purpose
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times an ad is presented to you).
Create profiles for personalised advertising 83 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service (such as forms you submit, content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (for example, information from your previous activity on this service and other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (that might include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present advertising that appears more relevant based on your possible interests by this and other entities.
Use profiles to select personalised advertising 83 partners can use this purpose
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on your advertising profiles, which can reflect your activity on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects.
Create profiles to personalise content 39 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests.
Use profiles to select personalised content 35 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests.
Measure advertising performance 134 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Measure content performance 61 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 74 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 83 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 37 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 46 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 27 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 92 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 99 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 72 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 53 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 88 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 69 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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