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“We will not tolerate attacks on our citizens,” Netanyahu said. “In the last year, we accumulated a mass of these attacks.”

Al-Ata “was ready to carry out more and more terrorists attacks, including in these days. We thwarted him when we were not heading for an escalation, but we will do all that we need to defend our citizens,” the prime minister added. The rockets Islamic Jihad fired into Israel, the prime minister said, constituted war crimes.  “The central principle is simple: On one side, there are fighters, and on the other side, civilians,” he said. “You can cross this line accidentally, but not intentionally. Every army from the most moral armies in the world accidentally hits innocent people, but that is not a war crime.  “A war crime is what the terrorists in Gaza do when they shoot at us…They intentionally aim at civilians, at residential neighborhoods. When they shoot a residential neighborhood in...

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The 1960s series on art and literature through the ages remains a brilliant (and popular) masterwork, a celebration with a tragic edge.

Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Museum in Florence, Italy.(Max Rossi/Reuters) The 1960s series on art and literature through the ages remains a brilliant (and popular) masterwork, a celebration with a tragic edge.The 13 one-hour TV films in which English art historian, arts administrator, and writer Kenneth Clark historically narrates a personal view of the history of Western civilization were first shown in Britain and the U.S. 50 years ago as the series Civilisation. Their amazing popularity began immediately and has continued unabated since 1969, with translation into several languages and publication of the text and many of its illustrations as a book that has never been out of print. The films continue to be bought and shown and looked at again and again all over the world. Gui...

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