:54:00
You want the truth. Things are pretty bad.
:54:03
How bad, in your opinion?
:54:05
If the Arabs had a decent campaign plan,
and could attack in force tomorrow...
:54:09
...they have the potential
to take Tel Aviv in 10 days.
:54:12
- You had to bring me another expert.
- He doesn't only complain...
:54:15
Everybody tells me the patient is dying.
:54:17
The patient has already lived 2,000 years
after the doctors gave him up.
:54:21
He won't live to be 2001
unless he follows directions on the label.
:54:24
I can write the manuals
for you from memory.
:54:27
Somebody has to convince
your officers to read them.
:54:30
Go back into training.
:54:31
You write, I'll convince.
:54:33
You know the biggest weapon you have?
:54:36
The guts, the tremendous guts
of those kids in torn sweaters...
:54:40
...and open-toed sneakers.
:54:43
Why throw away their lives...
:54:44
...by supplying them with
bargain-basement guns or none at all?
:54:47
Because your government
and the United Nations...
:54:50
...have embargoed
all arms shipments to us...
:54:52
...while the British can arm
our enemies openly.
:54:54
We're lucky we have a few bargain...
:54:56
No one ever won a war on excuses.
:54:59
They told you
that I have a terrible temper?
: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.