:55:02
I served in Germany
under General "blood-and-guts" Patton.
:55:05
You're a pussycat.
:55:09
You can't expect a boy to die
in somebody else's pants.
:55:12
The Palmach fight barefoot in the hills...
:55:13
...while the stores
in Allenby Road have sales.
:55:16
I'm the unofficial minister of defense
of an unrecognized government.
:55:19
I have no authority to requisition supplies.
:55:21
If you can't get supplies,
break through the window...
:55:24
...and take what you want.
Just remember...
:55:26
...the world doesn't pity the slaughtered.
:55:28
- It only respects those who fight.
- We haven't been fighting?
:55:31
Not to win. Look, you're like this:
:55:33
The Palmach, Haganah,
Irgun, Sterngang, government...
:55:39
You're all pulling in every direction.
:55:41
But if you can unify them
under one command...
:55:43
...then you'll have one army
that can move fast and hit hard.
:55:46
- You can help us do this?
- I don't know.
:55:49
I don't know if anyone can.
There isn't much time.
:55:52
But if you want to use me,
and gamble I know what I'm doing...
:55:55
...then you must give me a free hand.
:55:57
Absolute authority to consolidate
all your forces immediately.
:56:01
- That's all you want?
- Yes, that's all I want.
:56:07
You must understand
we're very new at this business.
:56:10
Our Haganah and our Palmach
are wonderful, brave, boys and girls.
:56:15
But, like children of the same family,
they're jealous of each other.
:56:18
What about the other groups?
:56:19
- The Irgun?
- Yes.
:56:20
Also very brave.
:56:22
Listens to no one,
conducts its own war against the British.
:56:25
The Sternists? Brave.
And occasionally shoot at us, bravely.
:56:30
We could have a very nice little war
here without the Arabs.
:56:33
You want me to give you
absolute authority over all of them?
:56:36
Yes.
:56:39
If you can find out how to get it,
please let me know...
:56:42
...because if, God forbid,
anything went wrong...
:56:45
...it'd be nice to have an American
to blame it on.
:56:51
- I guess the meeting's over.
- Look, try to understand.
:56:54
We're in the importing business.
We import people.
:56:57
That's the reason we're here.
We only fight because we have to.