THE GREEN KING (part 65)
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The Candlesticks
of Bogota
In the
beginning, Yoel Bainish showed remarkable abilities as a preparer, his
specially being, without doubt, an incendiary explosive made from three parts
of potassium chlorate to which was added one equal part of pineresin and one
part of powdered sugar. (This last ingredient delighted him; it reminded him of
a cooking recipe).
In the
beginning only. When it came to real action, he turned it over to Reb Klimrod.
Reb’s total lack of fear in all circumstances was obvious from the start. In
all the teams trained by Dov Lazarus, whether for Irgun or Stern, there was
never a lack of courage, sometimes bordering on recklessness. Reb was
different. And not only his complete indifference to danger. Many members of
Begin’s Assult Force were camp survivors, often the only surviving members of their
families. They were not intimidated by death, and his fighting was sometimes
their only way to remain sane, by giving them a reason to live. Reb was just
like that then. But there was something else: he never took part in any
discussion of he Jewish state. In this respect, he was like Dov Lazarus. For
Lazarus, politics were an abstraction, and he lived only for action. This
wasn’t the case with Reb, of course, but from the start, there was between them
surprising, but real, rivalry and complicity.
The mission of
September 28, 1945, consisted of the ambush of a small British columb on a road
seven and a half miles north-east of Ascalon. Fifteen men took part in it,
under the command of a man known to Bainish only as Eliahou. The others were to
give priority to the destruction of equipment over the execution of British
soldiers, and to break away at the first signal. It was essentially a movement
of harassment, aiming, according to Begin’s expression, to give the British the
feeling they were ‘sitting on a nest of scorpions.’
TO BE CONTINUED
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