there had been very few in history of terrorism that had quite as much affect as menachem begin. he was inventive and imaginative and theatrical. for instance, when the british hanged three terrorists who had been tried and convicted in in the military court, begin hanged three british sergeants and booby trapped their bodies. he blew up the king david hotel, which was at that point the most luxurious hotel in the middle east, a wing was also devoted to be the nerve center of the british mandate. 91 people were killed. and this broke the back of -- broke the spirit of the british occupation and they withdrew, and turned over the problem of palestine to the united nations. now, just to underscore the effect in history, after 9/11, when american troops went interest -- into kandahar and osama bin laden's compound, they und a copy of begin's memoir, and he wanted to know how a terrorist leader becomes a prime minister and wins the nobel peace prize. it's a trick that very few people have accomplished. after the british left, begin turned his attention to palestinians and there's a l