and they aimed an occasional burst of fire in our direction. But
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I tried to accomplish in broad daylight what I’d
and peel off when we got closer to Gebel Libni to
to put up a fight. There were eight men crouched inside
don’t you think we ought to deal with it?” Then
which seemed to come from just a few dozen yards
and Avraham knew him well. His wartime division consisted of
for the hell of it. One hallmark of the sayeret’s ethos
everything from handguns to machine guns
we had been steeped in the spirit of commandos. Our
Kapusta and Gibli and Errol and the other grizzled vets from
unseen and undetected. But we were not only
Sayeret Matkal was part of his department. He called together all the
the rough equivalent of America’s National Security Agency.
he faltered while reading it. He sounded
he delivered a radio address at the end of May
word got out that a park in the center of the city
organized us into four teams. He put me in command of
he went further expelling the United Nations force put in place
he received word that Egypt had moved thousands of