Earlier, an Irgun court had found the British sergeants guilty of a host of Revisionist-defined crimes that included “illegal entry into our homeland” and “membership in the British criminal-terrorist organization.” Irgun operatives summarily removed the two men from below the diamond factory floor and hung them. For deliberate effect, Begin’s men blindfolded the baby-faced soldiers in their khaki shirts, stuffed the sergeants’ legs into their original khaki trousers, and bound their hands and bare feet.

