With Its Longtime Leader Dead, al-Qaeda Needs Iran More Than Ever
And the U.S. needs Israel’s help in fighting it.
August 4, 2022
Carlos the Jackal, and How Palestine Replaced in the USSR in the Mind of the Far Left
A rare interview with the notorious terrorist.
Today, the far left across the globe holds opposition to Israel as one of its signature issues. While radical leftists once romanticized, apologized for, or embraced the murderous ideology of Bolshevism, today many do the same for jihadism. No individual embodies this transformation more than Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known to the world as Carlos the Jackal. After an over-two-decade career in terrorism, Sánchez was arrested in 1994 and remains in a French prison. He recently granted a rare interview to two Israeli film directors, Yaron Nisi and Dani Liber. They write:
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Those Worried about Russia Being Humiliated Never Seem to Have the Same Concern about Israel
The fantasy world of the realists.
Carlos the Jackal, and How Palestine Replaced in the USSR in the Mind of the Far Left
A rare interview with the notorious terrorist.
A Great American Jewish Writer Examines Her Youthful Correspondence with a German Soldier Who Fought for Hitler
“I hate no race.”
Why the Book of Lamentations Doesn’t Get Specific about the Jewish People’s Sins
The theodicy of ambiguity.