We have criticized Etzel in the past for using thievery and robbery to reach their goals.
Yediot Aharonot reported (Daniella Ashkenazy):
In February 1948, in the twilight hours of the British Mandate, the EZEL attempted to rob a major branch of Barclay’s Bank in Tel Aviv parading as British soldiers. The members of the radical Jewish militia closed off a section of Allenby Street with a large number of jeeps and barbed wire. Cursing like true troopers, in ‘Hinglish’ – fooling nobody, 15 of the gang walked into the bank demanding the keys to the vault… but due to bad timing, no combination of keys opened the safe. It was 8 AM – well before banker’s hours.
Stalin and Lenin robbed banks for The Cause, too.
(What kind of bank, though…?)