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But for what purpose?
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Call it publicity.
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-Publicity?
-Yes, publicity.
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A stunt to attract attention.
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A letter to the newspapers.
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A help-wanted ad to the official journal
of the United Nations.
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"Wanted by 600 men,
women and children, a country...
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"...a native land, a home."
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That's all they're dying for.
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Just to call attention to Israel...
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...without ever having seen it themselves.
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Does the vulgarity of it shock you?
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You can't fight the whole British Empire
with 600 people.
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It isn't possible.
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How many Minutemen did you have
when they fired...
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...the "shot heard round the world"?
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-I don't know.
-77.
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Look, please understand me.
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I wish you could win.
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I wish it were possible for you
to have a country of your own.
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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.
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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.