Exodus Page #14

- 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.

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