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underground springs a rainwater therefore it's channeled through water reserves like this one to the sea of galilee this is the largest freshwater lake in israel it supplies about thirty percent of the country's water from here the water is pumped as far as the same tech and south of the country where it is used for both domestic and agricultural purposes the water is the main reason for making peace or for one of the war is wrong the next goal and over thirty years ago it's never been internationally recognized and returning the territory to syria was on the cards until relatively recently. but syria's instability has israelis on tenterhooks many feel they still technically at war and whoever replaces president assad could prove infinitely worse for them it will be like exchanging the boston strangler for jerk the ripper or vice versa and all the emotion in the world. for roughly thirty five percent or for real water resources a strategic vantage point but chiefly a vital lifeline to a parched landscape for the syrians a thirst to get back in a hands is unlikely to be quenched no matter how damasc

religions -- jacob rembrandt painting that christ's cross the sea of galilee. as a piece of propaganda. if the propaganda on the part on behalf of courage. you're supposed to look at that and remember what courage is. it's very complex as a work of art in terms of its type of formal qualities, but it's very simple at the level of its moral. and that is a situation we have a hard time accepting. how can something be simple morality and yet really complicated and noble is a work of art? we expect that it's not going to be the case. >> host: on the second artist -- >> guest: you see the greatest artists absolutely have to. i think the problem is not the artists. it's the system in which they operate. take mark rothko. fascinating artists, very taken decomposes. i remember going to see rothko's paintings and mundane as a teenager, thinking about what this is about and what it's for. i can sense a powerful new. and the caption that said mark rothko born in, died in. did know what it was all about. read some books on him. years and years later that interview. the int

take a rembrandt painting my cries crossing the sea of galilee. it's a piece of propaganda. it's a very simple piece of propaganda on the part of courage. this was to look at that and remember what courage is. it's very complex and the work of art in terms of its technical formal qualities, but it's very simple at the level of its moral and that's a situation where a hard time excepting in the modern world. how: the he simple morally and really complicated and noble is a work of art? we expect that is not going to be the case. >> host: i'm a secular artist? >> guest: absolutely you see the creators artists have it. ii think the problem with this not the artist, it's a system in which they operate. take the very didactic impulses. i remember seeing ross goes paintings at the gallery in london as a teenager and wondered what was it was about. i can sense the mood and it's powerful. at the caption that said mark rothko, were named, died in. didn't know it was about. it's a book signing and then years come years later in the interview that said what he tried to do with your? he

about, but, you know, religions, you know, take a rembrandt painting like christ crossing the sea of galilee, it's a propaganda on the heart of courage. you are supposed to look at that and remember what courage is 6789 it's complex in a work of art in terms of the qualities, but it's simple at the level of its moral, and that's a situation in which we have a hard time accepting in the modern world. how can it be simple morally and yet really complicated and noble as a work of art? we expect, you know, that's not going to be the case. >> host: although secular artists did it. >> guest: yes, yes, i mean, absolutely. you see some artist, and the greatest artists, i think, absolutely have that. the problem we have, at least, not the artists, it's the systems in which they operate. take mark rosco, fascinating artist, impulses, and i remember going to see his paintings at the gallery in london, and i wondered if what it was for. it was powerful. i looked at the caption, and still didn't know what it was about. i read books, never got the sense, and years later, i read an interview with him, and