Exodus

00:54:01,534 --> 00:54:02,702 ...because once you strike... 734 00:54:02,827 --> 00:54:05,830 ...it can only end when you have won or when you are dead. 735 00:54:05,913 --> 00:54:10,376 What is so unusual about the Jews dying? Is that anything new? 736 00:54:11,252 --> 00:54:12,878 l stay right here. 737 00:54:13,379 --> 00:54:16,298 There is no excuse for us to go on living... 738 00:54:16,424 --> 00:54:19,010 ...unless we start fighting right now. 739 00:54:19,593 --> 00:54:22,221 So that every Jew on the face of the earth... 740 00:54:22,304 --> 00:54:25,349 ...can begin to start feeling like a human being again. 741 00:54:25,474 --> 00:54:27,226 You heard what l said. 742 00:54:27,309 --> 00:54:29,228 Fight, not beg! 743 00:54:29,770 --> 00:54:30,938 Fight! 744 00:54:34,775 --> 00:54:36,277 Wait a minute. 745 00:54:37,903 --> 00:54:40,072 Everybody aboard this ship... 746 00:54:40,197 --> 00:54:42,908 ...agreed to accept Haganah discipline. 747 00:54:43,409 --> 00:54:45,369 l am now giving an order. 748 00:54:45,828 --> 00:54:47,371 We will sit down... 749 00:54:47,997 --> 00:54:50,708 ...and we will maintain silence for 20 minutes. 750 00:54:51,625 --> 00:54:54,420 Each one of us will listen to his own heart... 751 00:54:54,503 --> 00:54:56,464 ...and to his brain, too. 752 00:54:57,131 --> 00:54:59,008 And then we will vote. 753 00:55:00,092 --> 00:55:02,261 We will now maintain silence. 754 00:55:17,943 --> 00:55:20,112 l saw the people on that ship. 755 00:55:20,321 --> 00:55:23,866 They're not dangerous. They're just poor, miserable people. 756 00:55:23,991 --> 00:55:25,993 Why can't you let them go? 757 00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:30,122 You must understand that we British have shown, throughout our history... 758 00:55:30,247 --> 00:55:33,751 ...an extraordinary talent for troublesome commitments. 759 00:55:34,669 --> 00:55:37,797 Palestine is a British mandate imposed upon us... 760 00:55:38,255 --> 00:55:40,091 ...by the League of Nations... 761 00:55:40,174 --> 00:55:43,302 ...which makes us responsible for keeping peace in the area. 762 00:55:43,427 --> 00:55:48,057 The Arabs simply won't keep the peace if we allow further Jewish immigration. 763 00:55:48,224 --> 00:55:50,267 l don't know much about the mandate. 764 00:55:50,393 --> 00:55:54,105 But l do know the Jews were promised a homeland in Palestine. 765 00:55:54,689 --> 00:55:58,693 During the First World War, Britain needed and accepted Jewish support... 766 00:55:58,818 --> 00:56:00,569 ...from all over the world. 767 00:56:00,695 --> 00:56:02,071 In return... 768 00:56:02,154 --> 00:56:05,825 ...the Balfour Declaration of 1917 made such a promise. 769 00:56:06,033 --> 00:56:09,537 That promise was reconfirmed during World War ll. 770 00:56:09,829 --> 00:56:13,290 This chap Ben Canaan probably wasn't lying when he said he fought with us. 771 00:56:13,416 --> 00:56:15,668 Thousands of Palestinians did. 772 00:56:16,002 --> 00:56:19,005 How can you promise something and then not deliver it? 773 00:56:20,047 --> 00:56:23,175 England was fighting for her life in 1917. 774 00:56:23,592 --> 00:56:26,846 Nations are very like people in such circumstances. 775 00:56:26,929 --> 00:56:30,307 They make promises they're not immediately able to fulfil. 776 00:56:30,391 --> 00:56:33,728 During that same crisis, we made the Arabs certain assurances. 777 00:56:33,853 --> 00:56:36,313 Hence, they have their claims, too. 778 00:56:36,689 --> 00:56:40,359 The Arabs are fanatics on the subject of Jewish immigration. 779 00:56:40,901 --> 00:56:43,029 Just now, we need their goodwill. 780 00:56:43,195 --> 00:56:46,115 -How is it ever going to end? -l don't know. 781 00:56:46,866 --> 00:56:49,702 The whole question now is before the United Nations. 782 00:56:49,785 --> 00:56:51,537 l hope they solve it. 783 00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:55,583 The sooner l stop operating detention camps, the happier I’ll be. 784 00:56:55,750 --> 00:56:59,170 That goes for every British officer and soldier l know. 785 00:57:01,964 --> 00:57:03,299 Thank you. 786 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:05,343 Yes? 787 00:57:06,927 --> 00:57:08,179 The devil. 788 00:57:08,929 --> 00:57:10,097 Of course. 789 00:57:10,222 --> 00:57:13,934 Send a boat alongside at once. I’ll join you in 10 minutes. 790 00:57:15,770 --> 00:57:18,647 They want to send 23 people back to Karaolos. 791 00:57:18,773 --> 00:57:21,400 The rest have declared a hunger strike. 792 00:57:25,404 --> 00:57:28,199 -Can l drop you at your hotel? -Of course. 793 00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,368 ...a few news bulletins, and an announcement. 794 00:58:12,493 --> 00:58:16,789 The evacuation of 2,000 British women and children from Palestine... 795 00:58:17,164 --> 00:58:19,542 ...was ordered today by the High Commissioner. 796 00:58:19