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But it isn't.
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You're offering the
lives of all these people
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for something that can never happen.
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I know. I've been in Palestine.
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-When were you there?
-A year ago.
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Mr. Ben Canaan, even if you get a partition
and a free Jewish state...
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...the Arabs won't let you keep it.
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500,000 Jews against 50 million Arabs?
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You can't win.
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You think I'm a fool.
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But I came to appeal to you
to call off the hunger strike...
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...and avoid a tragedy.
1:05:37
Why don't you appeal to Gen. Sutherland?
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What can I tell him?
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Tell him what God said to Moses:
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"Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,
'Thus saith the Lord:
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"'Let my people go,
that they may serve me."'
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Exodus, Chapter 7, Verse 26.
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We have been asked to talk to you,
Mr. Ben Canaan.
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-Do you have time?
-Of course.
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Excuse me.
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We have made a decision among the mothers.
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To send the children back to Karaolos now
will show weakness.
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The British will see that we are
not serious people aboard this ship.
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It doesn't matter what the British think.
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I cannot take the responsibility
for letting children starve to death.
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We will take the responsibility.
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We will not send them back,
and we will not go back with them.
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I'm sorry, Mrs. Frankel.
The children must go back.
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You go back if you want to with them.
Now, that's a Haganah order.
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You're an important man,
Mr. Ari Ben Canaan, but you know nothing.
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Look at these babies of mine.
Born behind barbed wire.
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For the first time they don't have to
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look out through a fence
like little animals.