Everything old is new again. That’s the message of the latest episodes of Danny Liber and Yaron Niski’s series, , which returns, on June 27, to Kan 11 after the news with the first in a three-episode arc about the legendary terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, which will be available on Kan.org.
il after it is broadcast. The show’s creators managed to do a series of interviews with Carlos from his prison cell in Paris in 2021 and he goes into detail about his life and perspective. While with someone like this – they note that like many terrorists, he is considered a malignant narcissist – it’s hard to know when he’s telling the truth but his story is still interesting.
The Jackal became known for his terrorist acts in the 1970s and 80s, mostly in the service of the Palestinian cause, and he boasts about killing more than 80 people and ordering and overseeing operations, such as bombings and airplane hijackings, in which thousands died, as well as having been the first non-Arab in the (PFLP). The one regret that he expresses in the first episode is that he did not kill more people. Much of what is revealed in that episode about his early life may surprise you.
I had never encountered it described in such detail before. Born in 1949, he was raised in a wealthy family in Caracas, in a villa with servants and a pool. His father was a successful lawyer, but he was also a Communist and a huge picture of Stalin hung on their living room wall.
He named his sons Vladimir, Illich.
