7 Days in Entebbe Page #4

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They said that they will commit

suicide with the hostages.

Tell your government

there is nothing I can do.

MOTTA:
But, Your Excellency,

this is your country.

You have an opportunity

to go down in history

as a great man.

The man who saved these people.

This is a-a great

opportunity, sir,

given to you by God.

AMIN:
All the terrorists want

is for you

to send your prisoners here.

Don't listen to those from

the PFLP sitting beside you.

You are offending me,

old friend.

All I'm trying to do

is make sure

the hostages are safe.

MOTTA:

I'm sorry, Your Excellency,

but please consider

what I'm saying.

Don't miss this opportunity

to show the people

who say bad things about you

what a great man you are.

Actually, I-I think this will

get you the Nobel Prize

for peace.

Uh, Y-Your Highness?

Y-Your Highness?

Why would the PFLP want us

to fly their prisoners

to Uganda?

I think that's Amin,

not the Palestinians.

He wants to be there when

the prisoners are released.

He wants to show the Soviets

and the Arabs

that he is with them now.

He wants their approval,

their support, their arms.

The $5 million.

If the Ugandans

are with the terrorists,

this operation

will have to be even bigger.

SHIMON:

I spoke to Kissinger.

He said it's better

if everybody dies

than we negotiate.

Yeah, well,

if it's not a French problem,

then it's even less

of an American problem, Shimon.

(SIGHS) Let's do

the only thing we can do.

No, wait. Please.

Yitzhak.

Shimon, let me explain

the situation as it stands.

We have no intelligence.

We only know the hostages

are in the terminal.

Nothing else.

What if they moved

them around last night?

What if now

we have people sitting

in the middle of them

with guns and grenades?

As soon as they know

we're coming,

they start to kill the men,

the women, the children.

So they are selecting Jews,

and you want to negotiate.

(RABIN SIGHS)

Shimon...

if we don't negotiate,

if we never negotiate,

if we're always at war,

then we will make

our country a prison,

and every one of our citizens

will be a prisoner.

Our enemies are our neighbors.

We can't get away from them.

One day, we have to talk

and to make peace.

Thank you, gentlemen.

How did they know

you were here?

He guessed.

The spirits warned my mother

I should never offend

the Israelis.

We should listen to my mother.

To your mother?

Release some of the hostages.

It will appease the French

and make things easier

at the airport.

(WADIE SIGHS)

(MAN COUGHING IN DISTANCE)

(MAN COUGHS, SNORTS)

(COUGHS, GROANS)

(THUMP, GROAN IN OTHER ROOM)

(CHUCKLES)

- (BRIGITTE YELLS)

- (PILL BOTTLE CLATTERING)

Scheisse.

(COUGHING IN DISTANCE)

(COUGHING, GRUNTING

IN DISTANCE)

Here.

This is Idi Amin's car.

Now, all the officials

in Uganda

use a black Mercedes limousine.

Right.

If we approached

the terminal in one,

the terrorists

would think Amin

is coming to talk

to the hostages.

That gives us

the element of surprise.

Get me a limo there,

we'll get the job done.

Benny?

What do you think?

We can put the Mercedes

in a Hercules

with Sayeret Matkal,

land the plane

at the new terminal.

- Good.

- They drive the Mercedes

to the old terminal,

kill the terrorists,

put the hostages on a plane,

fly back.

- Perfect.

- Now, to do that,

we need to control

the whole area.

Both terminals.

And what do you need?

(SIGHS)

Three companies of soldiers...

Dan, please.

Two companies of soldiers,

armor and heavy weapons.

- That will be four planes.

- Right. Move fast.

Keep all units on alert.

Rabin is already talking

to the French.

Okay, we have new orders.

Come down.

Let's go.

(AMIN LAUGHING)

AMIN:

Yes, yes.

Please. (CHUCKLES)

We wish you a pleasant journey.

Come and enter the bus.

Enter the bus.

(CHUCKLING)

And when you arrive

at your destination,

please tell them

that the president of Uganda

guaranteed your safety.

Ah. Mother, I'm your friend.

- Please say a prayer for us.

- I don't want to leave.

I would like to offer my place

to one of the Israeli people

who are being held.

That will not be possible.

I am not going to go.

Please get inside the bus.

No, I'm not going to go.

(CHUCKLING)

She's confused.

Please help her

get inside the bus.

- No. I'm going to stay.

- Help her.

- Help her.

- Get in, madam.

- No, I-I want to stay.

- Get in. Get in.

Please. I-I want to stay.

- Please.

- Get in.

Shalom.

I am afraid I'm not

the bearer of glad tidings.

I promised I would do

everything in my power

to have you released.

But they haven't heard

from your government yet.

The deadline is 24 hours away.

I'm very worried about you.

These men bear no grudge

against you.

Only against your fascist

Israeli government.

But if your government

do not negotiate,

they will kill two children

every 24 hours.

Starting with these two.

HANNA:

How can you do this?

Standing here

with your machine gun.

These are little children.

PASCO:

We have soldiers.

If you have to fight,

you fight our soldiers.

(QUIET CHATTER)

I don't want a coffee.

Zeev, you have a phone call.

Just wish I could be there.

SARAH:

You can't make it?

I got the part I wanted.

Hey, that's great.

I'm happy for you.

Will you be safe?

Don't want to talk about that.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Have you been thinking of me?

No, I mean, you know, it...

Sarah, people you love,

sometimes...

thinking of them, it, um...

it doesn't help.

Yeah.

I know what you mean.

Have you been practicing

on your shooting range?

Yes.

Every day.

Good.

Who was that?

It was my girlfriend.

Is she in the military?

No, she's not.

If you want to be with her,

you need to get her

to join the army.

Otherwise, it's better

you leave her alone.

What do you mean?

I mean exactly what I said.

Trust me, I know.

DAVID BRINKLEY:

The Palestinian hijackers

released 48 of their hostage

airline passengers.

But they stood nervously

holding machine guns

on the remaining 209

and threatened to kill them all

and to blow up

the French airliner

unless their demands are met.

The 48 passengers they let go

left for Paris,

where they arrived

a short time ago.

John Palmer was there

at the airport.

JOHN PALMER:
The VIP lounge

here at Orly Airport

has been cordoned off

by police,

and the waiting room inside

crowded with many relatives

and friends

waiting to greet

the newly released hostages.

Many of them, of course,

all of them on this flight,

consider themselves

very lucky indeed to be alive.

Excuse me.

(CLANKING)

(SIGHS)

You must know how this looks

to the rest of the world.

Yeah.

I know how this looks.

But it's not the reality.

I'm not responsible for

the actions of my compatriots.

You are repeating

their actions.

No, I'm not.

I'm not the oppressor.

I believe in the rights

of the Palestinian people.

They have no homeland.

Have you ever seen

a Palestinian refugee camp?

Have you seen

how these people live?

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