:52:01
...can begin to start feeling
like a human being again.
:52:04
You heard what I said.
:52:06
Fight, not beg!
:52:08
Fight!
:52:13
Wait a minute.
:52:16
Everybody aboard this ship...
:52:18
...agreed to accept Haganah discipline.
:52:21
I am now giving an order.
:52:23
We will sit down...
:52:26
...and we will maintain
silence for 20 minutes.
:52:29
Each one of us will
listen to his own heart...
:52:32
...and to his brain, too.
:52:34
And then we will vote.
:52:37
We will now maintain silence.
:52:54
I saw the people on that ship.
:52:56
They're not dangerous.
They're just poor, miserable people.
:53:00
Why can't you let them go?
:53:02
You must understand that we British
have shown, throughout our history...
:53:06
...an extraordinary talent
for troublesome commitments.
:53:10
Palestine is a British
mandate imposed upon us...
:53:14
...by the League of Nations...
:53:16
...which makes us responsible
for keeping peace in the area.
:53:19
The Arabs simply won't keep the peace
if we allow further Jewish immigration.
:53:23
I don't know much about the mandate.
:53:25
But I do know the Jews
were promised a homeland in Palestine.
:53:29
During the First World War,
:53:31
Britain needed and
accepted Jewish support...
:53:33
...from all over the world.
:53:35
In return...
:53:37
...the Balfour Declaration of 1917
made such a promise.
:53:40
That promise was reconfirmed
during World War ll.
:53:44
This chap Ben Canaan probably wasn't lying
when he said he fought with us.
:53:47
Thousands of Palestinians did.
:53:50
How can you promise something
and then not deliver it?
:53:54
England was fighting for her life in 1917.
:53:57
Nations are very like people
in such circumstances.