1:35:00
Mickey, there's been a disaster.
Terrible disaster.
1:35:05
The Arab Legion has moved
into the fortress of Latrun...
1:35:08
...and cut the only supply road
to Jerusalem.
1:35:11
The Arab Legion?
1:35:12
Our boys tried to break through yesterday
and were slaughtered like cattle.
1:35:15
The wheat fields
are irrigated with their blood.
1:35:18
That's a real defense minister speech.
Now, what happened?
1:35:21
Hardly any artillery, not enough men...
1:35:24
...but most important,
no centralized leadership.
1:35:27
You're right. We have no high command.
We have a committee.
1:35:31
You know about the cease-fire?
1:35:34
The United Nations requested
a general truce...
1:35:37
...effective the morning of June 11.
1:35:39
Did you accept it?
1:35:42
We don't want to see any more bloodshed
on either side.
1:35:46
I bet the Arabs have accepted.
1:35:49
They know you can't break through
to Jerusalem in that time.
1:35:51
When the cease-fire comes,
the lines will be frozen.
1:35:54
The city will have to surrender
or be starved to death.
1:35:58
We have two weeks.
1:35:59
- Less.
- But we've been over all this.
1:36:01
What the hell's so important
about Jerusalem, militarily?
1:36:04
Half the city's already fallen.
1:36:05
It doesn't make sense to risk everything
you've got to save the other half.
1:36:09
Did it make sense for a fellow
with a job building pyramids...
1:36:12
...to march his friends into the Red Sea?
1:36:16
Mickey, Jerusalem is starving.
1:36:19
Three pieces of bread a week
for the children, almost no water.
1:36:22
Jerusalem was destroyed
once by Nebuchadnezzar...
1:36:24
...a second time by Titus of Rome.
1:36:26
Not again, Mickey. Not again!
1:36:28
Without Jerusalem, there is no Israel.
1:36:35
The defense minister
has made another speech.
1:36:39
I'd be interested in knowing
how you intend to save it.
1:36:44
In the Bible is a Hebrew word
I've never seen anywhere else.
1:36:47
The word is "Aluf. "
1:36:49
It means commander.
1:36:51
More than that, it means leader.
1:36:54
I'm placing the unified command
of all forces in the Jerusalem front...
1:36:58
...in the hands of Aluf Michael Stone.