So you want to blow up British installations for the Irgun?
Yes.
You're an expert dynamiter, true?
Just try me.
There's still a point or two we do not completely understand.
- Will you assist us in making them clear? - Sure.
And make certain to tell the truth?
Why shouldn't I tell the truth?
This is always hard to answer.
First, I will ask you, please, to recreate for me again how it was in Auschwitz.
Now, think most carefully about it, and describe it to me.
Describe what?
Whatever you like.
For instance, how it was that people were chosen to live or to be killed.
First you undressed...
...and then they clipped your hair.
And then you all lined up, and you went to the station room.
So the way you remember it, they were men, women, children...
...all together and all naked.
Yes.
And then the doctors examined you...
...and told you what gate to take.
There were three gates.
If you were to be killed, then you went through the left gate.
Which most of them did.
Yes. Most.
But if you were strong enough to work, then you went through the right gate.
Which you did.
Yes.
- And then they assigned you to... - You said there were three gates.
Who went through the third gate?
Girls.
- All the girls? - No.
Only if they were young and pretty.
What happened to them?
The SS guards kept some of them.
The rest were sent around to army camps...
...for the soldiers.
You have a good memory.
Now, those who went through the left gate to be killed...
...how was the killing accomplished in Auschwitz?
They went in to take showers, 2,000 or 3,000 at a time.
And the doors were locked.
And then came the gas.
Very professional. One thing I overlooked.
You say you got this dynamiting experience in the Warsaw Ghetto fighting Nazis.
That's right.
You blew up quite a few Nazis with this dynamite?
All I could.
Good.
Now, return to Auschwitz, please.
From the gas chambers, the bodies went where?
The ovens.
At Auschwitz, they had crematoriums only at the last.
Before the installation of the ovens, what happened to the bodies?
They buried them.
How?
In trenches and holes.
- And who dug the holes? - I don't know.
I ask you again, who dug the graves?
I don't know.
They had demolition squads.
At least sometimes they did.
To blow holes in the ground...
...then dump the bodies in.
That is correct.
Now may I tell you something, Dov Landau?
At no time did the Jews use dynamite in the Warsaw Ghetto.
They had no dynamite.
Do you remember better now?
Maybe.
So it was not possible for you to learn the use of dynamite in the Warsaw Ghetto.
You learned about dynamite in Auschwitz...
...making mass graves to receive the dead bodies of your people.
True?
Yes.
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them.
And you saved your own life by working in that camp as a Sonderkommando.
- Correct? - Yes.
It was the duty of those Jews who became Sonderkommandos...
...to shave the heads of other Jews.
Yes.
To remove dead bodies from the gas chambers.
To collect gold fillings from their teeth.
Yes!
What could I do?
We take into consideration that you were less than 13 when you entered Auschwitz.
Even so, we must have the truth.
Is there anything else?
Yes.
Then tell us.
No, I won't tell you.
Please, don't make me tell you.
Kill me. I don't care.
- I won't tell you. - Tell us.
They used me.
They used me...
...like you use...
...a woman.
You will repeat for me the following words:
"I, Dov Landau...
I, Dov Landau...
"...do give my body, my brain, my soul and my being...
...do give my body, my brain, my soul and my being...
"...without reservation or qualification...
...without reservation or qualification...
"...to the freedom fighters of the Irgun.
...to the freedom fighters of the Irgun.
"Under torture, even unto death...
Under torture, even unto death...
"...I will never divulge the name of a fellow member of the Irgun."
...I will never divulge the name of a fellow member of the Irgun.
- You wanted me? - Yes.
So?
I've got to see Akiva. Where is he?
We tell Haganah where our leaders are hiding?
Forget Haganah. Akiva's my uncle.
And Barak Ben Canaan is your father. We trust him as we trust the Grand Mufti.
- His son's different? - Just tell Akiva and let him decide.
- I don't even know if he's in Jerusalem. - So tell him anyway.
If I can find him, where can I telephone you this evening?
I'll be here on the terrace from 7:0 on.
Do you like the view here?
Mr. Ben Canaan.
- Are we both eating alone? - I am.
- Or I was. Won't you sit down? - Thanks.
I know all the good things on that menu. May I order for you?
- Would you like a drink? - I had one at the consulate.
I had another one when I came to my room.
Have another one.
- Dry martini. - Two very dry martinis.
Excuse me, sir.
I'll take the hors d'oeuvres, clear soup...
...fillet of sole...
...salad...
...and some of your very good Chablis. We'll order dessert later.
Yes, sir.
What were you doing at the consulate today?
I've asked them to help me find Karen's father.
Yes, the girl. Please forget what I said...
...about getting hysterical over the life of one child.
I didn't mean it.
I know you didn't.
What happens if you find out her father's dead?
Then I'll take her back to America with me.
If she likes it there, I may adopt her.
Won't your husband have something to say about that?
My husband was killed a year ago...
...in a border skirmish near the Sheikh Hussein bridge.
You mean, here in Palestine?
He was a news photographer covering the Near East.
About the girl's father, if you like, I can put some of our Haganah boys on it.
The British High Commissioner to Palestine.
Taken over the whole south wing of the hotel in British general headquarters.
- Don't you feel uncomfortable here? - I guess I'm as safe here as any place else.
Besides, I spent 14 months in prison.
Tell me about yourself. Where do you come from?
I don't come from anywhere. I'm a sabra. A native-born Palestinian.
My father was born in Russia. He has a farm near Moshav Yad EI.
- Do you like farms? - I was raised on one.
I'd like to show you ours.
That'll be a little difficult.
I've rented a car and I'm driving to Gan Dafna tomorrow to visit Karen.
That's only a few miles past Yad EI.
I'm going up myself in the morning.
Do I know you well enough to ask you for a lift?
I think so.
- My name is Kitty. - Ari.
Thank you.
I'll teach you a Hebrew toast. L'chaim!
I know it. To life.
Good for you.
A year's a long time in the life of a pretty woman.
Have you found another man?
- Nothing serious. - Why not?
Many reasons.
One of them is that my husband's work filled his whole life.
I presume that's good, at least most men seem to think so.
But I feel a man who has nothing but his work is only half a man.
And you want a whole one?
Exactly.
The other half of his life must be a woman. What else?
Excuse me, sir. Telephone for you, call, please.
Excuse me. I'll be right back.
Come with me.
Now?
- I have to go back to the terrace. I want... - You want to arrange to have us followed.
Let's go.
Ari.
Come in.
Sit down.
You must have some tea.
There's an extra glass around here somewhere.
You look better than ever, Uncle Akiva.
It's an active life.
You've been active yourself recently.
This Exodus business shows in your heart you're really an Irgunist.
Two hundred pounds of dynamite?
Immediately, the British draw proper conclusions.
Now, it's no accident that brings you here tonight.
- May I speculate? - Of course.
The Irgun has been blowing up too many British installations.
We behave rudely to our British guests.
So the leading intellectuals of the Haganah, after endless meetings and much debate...
...have at last reached a decision.
- Correct? - It's close.
They say, "Send Ari Ben Canaan.
"The old criminal's getting soft in the head.
"He loves the boy. Maybe Ari can stop his indelicate activities."
- Also correct? - Also.
But they want something more.
If the UN votes for Partition, we'll have the Arab world on our backs.
Our only hope is an alliance between Irgun and Haganah.
An alliance to fight? Of course.
The minute Haganah adopts our policy of fighting instead of talking...
...an alliance between us becomes automatic.
You're not being fair.
When it comes to fighting, Haganah has lost more lives than Irgun.
We fight to defend ourselves, or to capture positions that we can occupy and hold.
When you attack it's just to spread terror.
Your duty is done. You have given me the official line.
But what about you, Ari?
Forget Haganah for one moment, and tell me what you think.
I think these bombings and these killings hurt us with the United Nations.
A year ago we had the respect of the whole world.
Now, when they read about us, it's nothing but terror and violence.
It's not the first time this happens in history.
I don't know of one nation, whether existing now or in the past...
...that was not born in violence.
Terror, violence, death.
They are the midwives who bring free nations into this world.
Compromisers like the Haganah produce only abortions.
Before you have a country, you have to have people.
That's the job we've done. Tens of thousands of people smuggled in...
...with the whole British Navy blockading the coast.
The population we've built is our most valid argument for independence.
How can we ask the UN for a just decision...
...when we keep blowing up things like a bunch of anarchists?
You have just used the words "a just decision."
May I tell you something?
Firstly...
...justice itself is an abstraction...
...completely devoid of reality.
Second, to speak of justice and Jews in the same breath...
...is a logical uncertainty.
Thirdly...
...one can argue the justice of Arab claims on Palestine...
...just as one can argue the justice of Jewish claims.
Fourthly...
...no one can say the Jews have not had...
...more than their share of injustice these past 10 years.
I therefore say, fifthly...
...let the next injustice work against somebody else for a change.
You just changed the subject on me.
You noticed.
I suppose that means more bombings and more killings?
I'll put it this way.
Let the National Committee keep on trying to talk the British out of Palestine.
We have no objections. We will continue to bomb them out.
- Now tell me, how is your mother? - She's fine.
And little Jordana?
Little Jordana just won her second marksmanship medal with the Palmach.
And that young rascal, David Ben Ami, she's still interested?
She can't wait till he gets back from Cyprus.
And Barak...
...still counts my name among the dead on Yom Kippur?
Ten years.
It's a long time to be dead to the only family you have.
Doesn't he understand I must work for Israel in my way...
...just as he works for it in his?
You can't talk to him about it. I've tried.
Of course.
It's not much of a home, is it?
With only Rose's samovar to make a memory real.
Every time I come home, I stop here to look for a minute.
- You want to look with me? - Sure.
It's beautiful!
The Valley of Jezreel.
If you dug straight down far enough there, you'd find the ruins of Meggido.
You'd find the very same paving stones that Joshua walked on when he conquered it.
That's Abu Yesha. That's an Arab village. To the left is Gan Dafna.
- Do you know your Bible? - In a Presbyterian sort of way.
That's Mount Tabor.
I remember. Where Deborah gathered her armies.
That's where she stood when she watched Barak march out to fight the Canaanites.
"So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and 10,000 men with him."
It's in the Book of Judges.
The Canaanites had 900 iron chariots...
...but Barak had men.
3,200 years ago.
That's when the Jews first came to this valley. It wasn't just yesterday or the day before.
Isn't your father's name Barak?
In Russia, he was Yakov Rabinski.
But when he came here, he took the name of Deborah's general.
He called himself Barak Ben Canaan.
Barak, the son of Canaan, and this valley became a Jewish land once again.
He can give you the date every clump of trees was planted there, to the month.
Don't get excited.
We're not debating now.
I'll grant anything you say.
I just wanted you to know that I'm a Jew.
This is my country.
I do know. I understand.
Sometimes it's not that easy.
It's the easiest thing in the world, Ari.
All these differences between people are made up.
People are the same, no matter what they're called.
Don't ever believe it.
People are different.
They have a right to be different. They like to be different.
It's no good pretending the differences don't exist, they do.
They have to be recognized and respected.
I recognize them. I respect them.
Don't you understand that you make me feel like a Presbyterian...
...when you can't, for just a minute or two, forget that you're a Jew?
You're wrong, Ari.
There are no differences.
Ari, my boy.
Papa, this is Mrs. Fremont.
Shalom, Mr. Ben Canaan.
Welcome to Yad EI, Mrs. Fremont.
If you'll excuse me, I will tell your mother.
Mama!
- Mama, where are you? - I'm here, Barak.
- Have you hurt yourself? - No. Ari is home.
- Ari? - He's downstairs! Wait a minute.
- He's got a girl with him. - A girl?
- An American girl. - How do you know she's American?
Sarah, I travel. I can recognize national types.
- What is her name, Barak? - Mrs. Fremont.
Mrs? So, where is her husband?
- Why does she go chasing after my Ari? - Whether she's chasing him, I don't know.
If you ask me, "Is Ari chasing her?" Frankly, that is a possibility.
For you maybe. Not for my Ari. Better stop talking like a goat.
My Ari comes home and there's not a thing in the house to eat, not a bite.
Hello! Rebecca.
Now, say "ah."
Yes?
- What a nice surprise. - Tell my daughter, Jordana.
Of course.
No trouble at all.
There. You're all right.
Jordana, your brother Ari is at Yad EI, I just spoke to your papa.
Ari? Take this for me.
Now, young ladies and gentlemen...
...can you give me a little style?
It's not fair keeping David in Cyprus so long.
He could be doing something just as important right here in Palestine.
That's exactly what he says.
But he tells me in his letter that he may be gone another year.
I know Haganah would call him back, if you would only use your influence.
Any girl that falls in love with a Palestinian boy has a long wait coming.
- A nice piece of strudel, Mrs. Fremont? - I couldn't.
Mrs. Fremont, you're a very pretty girl, but you could stand a little weight on you.
Also your color is not too good.
If it wasn't for me, David wouldn't be in Cyprus working for Haganah.
He wanted to join the Irgun. You know that.
I saw Uncle Akiva in Jerusalem. He sends you his love.
You will not mention that name in my house.
Father, he's all alone.
- He wants to forget what happened... - To me, he is dead.
At this moment when the very existence of a free Israel hangs by a thread...
...before the UN, he presents us to the world like a bunch of murderers!
- He has a right to do... - He is dead!
I don't remember his name, I don't remember his face, he is dead!
Barak.
I have to get to Gan Dafna, now. That is if you are ready, Mrs. Fremont?
- You should see it before dark. - Sorry you have to leave so soon.
- Maybe I'll wrap your strudel. - No, don't bother.
Goodbye, Mrs. Ben Canaan. And thank you for the good food.
Bye. I hope you'll come back soon.
The next time maybe a little hungrier.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye.
Barak, you should be ashamed of yourself, in front of a stranger.
And do you know something else?
I've been elected to the Rooms Committee, Bungalow 12.
- Already? - Yes.
- You remember Edna, the girl with freckles? - I think so.
She's helping me with Hebrew, so I can catch up with the others.
- Hebrew? - Yes. We have a language of our own now.
And there's something else, too. When you're 16, you join the Palmach.
They're soldiers, and everybody joins, also girls.
I didn't show you the statue of Dafna.
She was a young soldier.
The Arabs captured her and they tortured her to find out things from her.
But she wouldn't tell.
So they sent her back to Yad El in a sack tied to the back of a mule.
They cut off her hands and her feet, and they gouged out her eyes.
But she wouldn't tell them anything.
- She was very young. - Seventeen.
She and Ari Ben Canaan were in love.
They grew up together. They were sweethearts all their lives.
That's why Ari never got married. They named the village after her.
And there's something else, too.
Dr. Lieberman knows my father. I mean, he's read my father's books.
He knows who my father is.
That's wonderful.
- We have to go to supper now. - I'm sorry, I couldn't eat a thing.
- I had too much at Yad EI. - Then I'll come back afterwards.
You're just going to love it here, Kitty.
What's the matter? You act like a stranger.
I feel like one.
I guess I'd feel the same way, too, if I suddenly found myself in Indiana.
You just don't understand us yet.
Stop saying that. I can understand just as well as you can.
I didn't come here to fight with you. I have to get to Jerusalem.
I came to say goodbye.
Ari.
What?
I had an accident on the road today.
It wasn't your fault...
...but I'm going to drive more carefully from now on.
- You don't really mean that. - I do.
You were right.
We are different.
I've been feeling the difference all afternoon.
I feel...
...outside.
The way your mother and father...
They were perfectly charming, I don't mean that, but...
...the way they looked at me, the way your sister talks to me...
It doesn't make any sense to discuss it, no sense at all.
If it doesn't make any sense to discuss it, we'll just forget it.
If I get any word on the girl's father, I'll let you know. Goodbye.
Goodbye.
- Hello. - Hello. How have you been?
- Fine, thank you. - Hello.
Karen, you do understand that it's been a long time since you've seen him.
He may have changed so much, you won't recognize him.
- I'll recognize him. - Good.
- Doctor? - Yes?
- Dr. Engel, Mrs. Fremont. - Good day.
- And Karen. - How do you do?
- The young lady understands, does she not? - Yes, we told her everything.
That's good. I'll just be a moment.
He's tired.
The King David Hotel.
Able Baker 2. Message. Over.
Able Baker 5.
Code word, "Nelson." Out.
The whole of the south wing...
...of the King David Hotel has been completely destroyed.
Eighty-three bodies have been recovered so far, and the search continues.
A 9:0 curfew has been ordered for all Jews.
Stand by for further...
You have done a good job.
They were given three warnings, and they laughed.
If they want their own people slaughtered, we will oblige them.
Let's get you some food.
First I must wash up.
150 wounded British...
The fire is now under control.
The number of dead has risen to 91.
Hands up! You're under arrest!
Get up.
Sergeant, you take on the door.
You and you search the grounds.
You round the back.
You come with me.
You look in the cupboards.
You stay here.
We'll find him.
He can't have left the compound.
The Military Court of Jerusalem has found Akiva Ben Canaan...
...Benno Bronstein and Ludwig Zimmer...
...guilty according to Section 58 of the emergency regulations of 1946.
They will be transported forthwith to the military prison of Acre.
There, two weeks from date of sentence, they shall be hanged by the neck until dead.
May God have mercy on your souls.
Get him ready, sir?
Akiva Ben Canaan. Visitor.
Communication center.
You have? I'll take it down. Hold on.
Barak Ben Canaan.
God, don't let my brother die...
...at the end of a British rope.
- Shalom. - Shalom.
I thought you were on Cyprus, David Ben Ami.
I've been called back.
You shouldn't have brought them here, Yaov.
You not only risk our lives, the Druze here in this village trust us.
There's danger not only from the British, the Arabs will slaughter the village.
He insisted on talking to you, and I have orders...
...from Akiva that Ari Ben Canaan may see us any time he wants to.
Well, you're here. What do you want?
The UN may vote on Partition by the end of the month.
We listen to the radio also.
Half the leadership of Irgun and 40 members of Haganah...
...are rotting down there in Acre prison. - Including Akiva, your uncle. So?
If Partition is voted, we'll need every man to fight the Arabs.
Irgun, Haganah, what difference does it make?
I spent 14 months in that prison. I know every inch. I can show you...
That town is surrounded by 10,000 British soldiers.
8,400. 1,600 are pulling out tomorrow for Jerusalem.
Acre isn't a prison, it's a fortress.
It hasn't been successfully attacked since the Crusades.
He picks a place in the middle of an Arab city, surrounded by the British Army...
...and says to us, "Go fight."
Napoleon bombarded it for 61 days.
Napoleon didn't have 93 men inside. You have.
- What about the 400 Arabs in that prison? - We waste Irgun blood to free Arabs?
If you turn 400 Arabs loose, they are going to run in 400 different directions.
Each'll have a detachment of British soldiers on his tail.
I will not listen. I do not trust anybody from the Haganah.
If we can't trust each other, there'll be no Israel, even if Partition is voted.
Akiva is Ben Canaan's own blood. This is no trap.
How many Irgun does your plan call for?
Twenty-six, divided into four attack groups...
...and Dov Landau. - What do you want with Dov Landau?
Akiva's execution is six days away.
We need a man inside Acre prison by tomorrow night.
- Landau must surrender now. - He'll be sentenced to death.
Akiva is your uncle. Why don't you surrender?
Because Landau will be sentenced within a few hours...
...and sent to Acre. It'd take weeks for me or anyone else.
It must be Landau.
If we can agree on a plan, and if Dov is necessary...
...and if we can find him, I will give him the choice.
But I will not order him to do it.
Please, tell us what you have in mind.
Stars are British command posts.
Numbers are outside detachments. Letters are inside groups.
There is a Turkish bath house that adjoins the south prison wall.
Hammam al-Pasha, I know it.
I'll take a man to the first detachment. You occupy the baths, move to the roof...
...and dynamite the prison wall here.
Inside groups will move against the yard and the cell gates.
- With what? - Anything we can smuggle in.
Dynamite, gunpowder, grenades.
Now, we move into action simultaneously from the outside and from the inside.
Hey, Moshe!
Peretz Dresner.
Mrs. Peretz Dresner?
- Is everything in order? - Okay, Chief.
Coberg.
Cohen.
Morris.
- Feuerstein. - Here.
- Misra. - Yes.
Bach.
Sorry. Bedtime.
All right, Bill.
Good boy. On time.
Stand back!
Everybody down. Flat.
Someone placed a fuse. Come on, in here.
Come on, start climbing.
...the present moment stands at 15 dead...
...with 251 prisoners still at large, including all of the condemned terrorists.
A network of roadblocks has been set up throughout Palestine...
...while a house-to-house search is now under way...
...in Acre and neighboring Druze villages.
A 7:0 curfew has been proclaimed for Jews.
Standby for further bulletins.
Get down.
Is Akiva hit?
We are both hit.
- Do you want me to slow down? - No, you must go faster.
Get off the road.
Is the pain bad?
Mortal wounds give no pain.
I'm already occupied with dying.
Not for a long time, Uncle Akiva.
In this fatal optimism, you are Haganah.
In methodology, you are Irgun.
But in the heart, you are Israel.
Kiss Barak for me.
We must get out of here before they come back.
- Are you hurt badly? - No, I'm all right.
Give me your handkerchief.
You head for Ein Or. I can get to Gan Dafna from here.
- Are you sure? - I'm sure. Shalom.
A bulletin. 22 residents of the Druze village of Isfiya...
...have been arrested for alleged complicity in today's prison revolt at Acre.
Stand by for further bulletins.
A bulletin.
The commandant of Acre Prison has discovered evidence indicating...
...that the surrender of the notorious Dov Landau...
...was part of the Irgun plot to organize the uprising from the inside.
Security police are reported closing in on Landau...
...along the southern approaches to Haifa.
Stand by for further bulletins.
Quiet, please.
I have an announcement.
Arabs from across the border have been infiltrating the valley...
...for the last three or four nights. There have been two ambushes.
From now on, no one will leave the village area without permission.
Don't worry about Dov.
If anybody in this world can give them the slip, he'll do it.
I know. They'll never catch him.
But I just keep thinking how scared he must be right now.
- Dov? - Why, yes. He gets so scared.
Why, inside, he's just scared all the time.
You know, perhaps later on, we'll be able to get Dov to America, too.
Kitty.
I cannot go to America with you.
I must stay here.
Mrs. Fremont.
Will you come to the hospital right away? It's an emergency. Please, hurry.
A British search party has just turned Yad El upside down. Mother telephoned.
- They must be coming here next. - We're almost finished.
We must get him out of here.
His right lung is punctured.
If he's moved, the chances are 8 to 10 he'll hemorrhage, and that would mean death.
Of course, you're his sister, Jordana. It's for you to decide.
No stranger has been here.
However, everything is open to you. We are happy to accommodate.
Sir. Mr. Coats.
- Quite an arsenal they've got piled up here. - Pretty little collection.
What's wrong?
Nothing's wrong, but you must lie still.
But I'm the only doctor they had.
You can't leave all these children without a doctor.
Don't worry, children, I'll be back.
Dr. Lieberman's been arrested.
They found weapons in Gan Dafna.
Here's the adrenalin, they have no plasma.
How is he?
I opened the wound. It's draining.
Will he live?
I don't know.
His temperature's 102.
If it keeps going down, we may have the infection checked.
If not, it means it's spreading and forming pockets all through the chest cavity.
When the Syrian Arabs murdered my father in his own mosque...
...Ari's father saved my life and my heritage.
Ari and I used to live together in Yad EI.
We shared the same room.
To me, his house was life itself.
Now to think that...
...my house may become his tomb.
I can't find his pulse.
Norway votes...
...for Partition.
Pakistan...
...against.
- Who cares? - How is it now?
24 for Partition, 9 against, and 8 abstaining.
If we get over the next 4, I think we're in.
Republic of Panama...
...for.
The Republic of Paraguay...
...votes...
...for Partition.
The Republic of Peru...
...for.
The Philippine Republic votes...
...for.
We've got two-thirds. I'm going to announce it!
- But we haven't got the final vote yet. - What's the difference? We won!
The Polish People's Republic votes...
...for.
Although the vote is not yet complete, I can now tell you...
...that in 5 months and 16 days from this moment...
...on May 15...
...1948...
...the British will leave Palestine forever!
Please, don't make a demonstration yet.
Because I've still to read this statement from the National Committee.
"The final vote of the United Nations on the question of the Partition of Palestine...
"...into an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state...
"...is as follows:
"33 for...
"...13 against, 10 abstentions."
We would wish the hour of parting between us...
...and England...
...to be one of honor.
We must record that in most instances...
...British soldiers carried out the unrelenting policy of their government...
...with tact and compassion.
There are many cases on record of British soldiers and sailors...
...risking their lives to save Jewish refugees.
And to the Arab population of Jewish Palestine, we make the following appeal:
The Grand Mufti has asked you either to annihilate the Jewish population...
...or to abandon your homes and your lands...
...and to seek the weary path of exile.
We implore you...
...remain in your homes...
...and in your shops...
...and we shall work together as equals...
...in the free state of Israel!
What's wrong?
- You've won your freedom. I've lost mine. - We never had freedom, you or I.
All our lives we've been under British rule. We'll be equal in the free state of Israel.
The resolution guarantees it.
Guarantees are one thing, reality's another.
They've made my lands and village part of Israel...
These are still your lands. They always will be.
I'm a minority.
We've always been friends in this valley, Taha.
Minority, majority, we've proved it makes no difference.
If it makes no difference, why have you fought so hard?
Because we had hundreds of thousands of people with no other place to go.
- Where shall my people go? - Why should they go anywhere?
This is their home as well as ours.
Don't you see? We have to prove to the world that we can get along together.
If we don't, then the British are right, we cannot govern ourselves without them.
Excuse me.
All our lives we've understood each other and loved each other.
Now, when it means everything, I can't reach him.
You'll make him understand, Ari. I know you will.
You know, you're wonderful.
I look at you...
...and I ask myself, what are you doing here in the middle of somebody else's fight?
You should go back to America. You've had your civil war.
I'm going to stay.
I'm going to stay as long as you'll have me.
I love you, Kitty.
My father gave them the land upon which Gan Dafna stands.
My children go to school at Gan Dafna.
I am the mukhtar of this village and will not attack.
We know you are the mukhtar.
Understand the Grand Mufti has publicly committed himself...
...and every Arab man, woman and child to die...
...rather than accept the partitioning of Palestine.
His Holiness does not recognize the decision of a few elderly gentlemen...
...at Flushing Meadows, who call themselves the United Nations.
As you are a Moslem, you cannot recognize it either.
- What does this have to do with attacking? - Gan Dafna commands the Jezreel valley.
The Mufti must pass through this valley on his way to Safed.
He's made Safed his provisional capital until the last Jew is exterminated.
- There are 650,000 Jews in Palestine. - Temporarily.
The Grand Mufti was our guest in Berlin during the war.
Since I and my group of friends are now his guests...
...we have placed our experience in handling Jews entirely at his disposal.
I have 80 Arab storm troopers in my command.
You will supply 300 men by tomorrow at midnight to join them.
We will give you the arms.
My people are shepherds and farmers, not fighters.
The 80 men of whom I spoke were trained by myself, personally.
They will see that your villagers fight like lions.
I'm leaving three of my officers and six of my men behind...
...to assist you in gathering your forces together.
My village is just as well situated to control the valley as Gan Dafna.
Must we slaughter defenseless children for what we don't need?
We've chosen Gan Dafna because we want a quick victory.
I'm not going to take chances.
Well, you must now excuse me.
I have to deliver a message from the Mufti to the British commander at Fort Esther.
I'm traveling under a flag of truce. I shall return later.
We'll be your guests tonight.
I understand you have other guests in the house.
- A Jewish couple. - The woman is an American.
See to it that they are here when I return. I wish to interrogate them.
Personally.
- Ari, you must leave here right away. - Why?
Don't ask why. Leave. Don't let anyone see you.
- Go through the olive grove. - What happened?
You must evacuate Gan Dafna by midnight tomorrow.
- I don't understand. - Don't ask questions, just do it.
If the children aren't out of this valley, they will be butchered like sheep.
If the Mufti's men are in the house or if they're attacking Gan Dafna, tell me.
Haven't I told you enough already?
Do you want me to dishonor myself completely?
Goodbye.
They're the same gangsters who murdered your father.
- You can't get involved with them. - Ari, I know what I'm doing.
We grew up as brothers.
If there's trouble with the Mufti, let's face it together, as always.
I'll get word to the Palmach.
We'll defend Abu Yesha and Gan Dafna instead of surrendering them.
I cannot do it.
Today, more than ever before, I realize that I'm a Moslem.
I cannot go against my own people. I cannot kill another Arab.
If you were ever my friend, prove it now by leaving this house.
May Allah watch over you all the days of your life.
- Who goes? - Dov Landau.
I knew they wouldn't catch you.
- Who's in charge? - Jordana Ben Canaan.
Only, she isn't here now.
She went to Fort Esther to try to make them give our guns back.
- Have you got headquarters set up here? - In the dining hall.
Don't hold a Molotov like that. Here, hold it like this.
We've less than 100 heavy machine guns in the country.
Most of our ammunition isn't accurate beyond 100 yards.
Now, the Palmach have about 6,000 other arms...
...and the Irgun, another 1,500.
- From now on, we work together. - Something coming through.
Haganah Safed calling.
"We've had an Arab uprising in progress since sundown.
"We have 40 rifles...
"...42 homemade Stens...
"...one machine gun and one mortar...
"...plus handmade grenades.
"We still hold the center of the city...
"...but we're heavily outnumbered."
- Ari, how are you? - I'm fine.
- How many guns have you got? - Eight.
And about 180 Molotovs. The British confiscated the rest.
I know. I heard.
Jordana went to Fort Esther to try to get them back.
There's a detachment of Palmachs on the way.
But the Jerusalem road has been cut in a dozen places.
I sneaked ahead to let you know.
The order is for every kibbutz and moshav and village to fight to the end.
Nothing's to be surrendered.
- Is the transmitter working? - Yes.
Then send this:
"Gan Dafna expects an attack in force by tomorrow night.
"If the Palmach is on the way, tell them to hurry.
"We have 300 children here and eight guns."
That's all.
Keep on sending that.
The commander refuses to return our weapons.
He said it would only provoke violence.
And he won't interfere in local problems, except to punish troublemakers.
I suppose that means us, if we try to defend ourselves.
They must know that the whole border's alive with armed Arabs.
I think the Mufti's men have taken over Abu Yesha.
Taha warned us to evacuate here before midnight tomorrow.
How many children do we have here under 13?
About 150.
We'll have to get them to Beth Amal tonight...
...and secretly, so the Arabs don't know.
We'll go around the valley instead of through it.
That's near the border, but we must risk it.
We'll go through Ein Or and down the other side of Mount Tabor.
You can't go down the other side of Tabor in daytime, much less at night.
You'll kill half of them.
I'd rather lose half of them there than all of them here.
With luck we'll be back by sunrise.
That means the older children must handle things until we get back.
- What if they attack tonight? - That's a risk we'll have to take.
Dov, you organize outside the fence. Jordana, you take the inner area.
Make it look as though we've got 1,000 people here.
Let's get to work.
Get dressed. Hurry up.
Get up, get dressed. Report to the dining hall.
Will you help me?
I want you to stay here. If anything happens, they'll need a nurse.
Have you forgotten every 15-year-old girl in Gan Dafna...
...is a nurse, and a good one?
Stay here, anyway. I don't want you mixed up in this.
Either I'm with you, or I'm not with you.
This is your choice, and this is the time to make it, right now.
All right, you come along, then. That's a Haganah order.
Now...
I want you to walk two by two, holding hands so that nobody gets lost.
We're going very close to the border. So from when we leave...
...until the time we get to Beth Amal, nobody says a word.
Nobody coughs, nobody sneezes, nobody cries, nobody even whispers.
Do you understand?
- Will you promise? - We will.
- No, say it. - We promise.
- Not one word. - Not one word.
Mr. Ben Ami, how many men did you bring?
Only two to a truck, but from the outside it looks like an army.
Where is Jordana?
David! I'm so glad to see you.
- Halt! Stay where you are. - It's me, Dov.
Watch out.
- What are you doing out here? - Sixty Palmachniks just came.
- I know, I heard the trucks. - So you can come back now.
No, I don't go back until somebody relieves me of this position.
Stay down.
There are Arabs out there.
Ari said they won't attack until tomorrow night.
I killed one about three hours ago.
Down there.
Dov...
...you have a beautiful name.
Sometimes I whisper it to myself.
- You'd better go back. - When you do.
I'm 15 years old now.
- I'm not little anymore. - You shouldn't have come here in the first place.
But, Dov, you're always fighting.
And you're always in a place where you might be killed.
If anything should happen to you before I told you how much I love you...
...I just wouldn't want to live anymore.
Please, love me.
I'm not afraid. Honest, I'm not.
When things are all over, I'm going to marry you.
You'll be Mrs. Dov Landau.
You're going to have respect.
- They will tip their hats when you go by. - And I will smile.
- I told you to go back twice already. - Dov!
From now on, you do what I say. You understand?
Now, keep down.
Be careful. Take cover wherever you can.
Shalom, Dov. I've come to relieve you.
- Is Ari back? - Yes.
He got the children safely to Beth Amal.
It's been very quiet the last few hours. Shalom.
Shalom.
We are going to attack Abu Yesha before they move.
Good. We'll never be stronger than we are right now.
- Have you seen Karen? - I sent them all to bed hours ago.
- What's my assignment? - Patrol Gan Dafna while we move out.
Let's be sure they don't surprise us while we surprise them.
David will jump them from behind...
...and my group will attack directly through the olive grove.
David, you'd better take Jordana with you, she knows the village.
Nothing seems to be moving over there.
The muezzin hasn't called for the morning prayers, either.
Cover us.
Somebody come and help me cut him down.
What's the matter?
This is Taha...
...mukhtar of Abu Yesha.
And this is Karen...
...Secretary of the Rooms Committee, Bungalow 12, Gan Dafna.
We have no kadi...
...to pray for Taha's soul.
And we have no rabbi...
...to pray over Karen.
Taha should have lived a long life...
...surrounded by his people and his sons.
And death should have come to him...
...as an old friend...
...offering the gift of sleep.
It came, instead, as a maniac.
And Karen, who loved her life...
...and who lived it as purely as a flame, why did God forget her?
Why did she have to stumble onto death so young?
And all alone?
And in the dark?
We of all people...
...should no longer be surprised when death reaches out to us.
With the world's insanity and our own slaughtered millions...
...we should be used to senseless killing.
But I am not used to it. I cannot and will not get used to it.
I look at these two people, and I want to howl like a dog.
I want to shout "murder"...
...so that the whole world will hear it and never forget it.
It's right that these two people should lie side by side in this grave...
...because they will share it in peace.
But the dead always share the earth in peace.
And that's not enough. It's time for the living to have a turn.
A few miles from here, people are fighting and dying...
...and we must join them. But I swear...
...on the bodies of these two people...
...that the day will come when Arab and Jew will share...
...in a peaceful life...
...this land that they have always shared in death.
Taha, old friend...
...and very dear brother.
Karen...
...child of light...
...daughter of Israel...
...Shalom.