Chilling Reactions To Chilling, Previously Unseen Interview With Terrorist

James Carleton, the son of deceased, Israel-bashing Australian journalist Richard Carleton, is excited to have uncovered this previously unseen interview his father did with PFLP terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.

Notice how unrepentant Kanafani is about using terrorism.

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Update: Video removed, but is also available here

Just as chilling are the reactions of many to this video.

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And how did I find out about this? From someone familiar to us, who retweeted it admiringly.

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Incidentally, Richard Carleton actually asks the terrorist some difficult questions – as opposed to his time at Channel Nine when he came off as decidedly pro Palestinian/anti-Israel. Which perhaps gives us insight into just where son James stands.

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3 thoughts on “Chilling Reactions To Chilling, Previously Unseen Interview With Terrorist”

  1. I take it this recording is from 1968 or 1969. Do we have a precise date?
    As for the chilling quality, well, he speaks with such conviction and sticks to his “principles” very hard. If his self-defined liberation movement were a legitimate one, I too would admire the figure he cuts in this video. We could disagree about means, but nobody would question the legitimacy of his overall goal. So, I can relate to people’s expression of admiration for this figure here, devoid of context.
    The only “problem” is that he in fact a leader of an organization dedicated to colonialist reconquest of the liberated national territory of the ancient Jewish nation (and of British-carved Jordan, but I don’t much care about that). So in reality he has no legitimacy whatsoever – his very arguments regarding legitimacy prove why his is illegitimate, to one who knows the facts of history.
    But he sure sounds like he comes by his anger honestly, for whatever that’s worth.
    Of course, if the KKK decided they were a national entity and waged a bloody campaign to take over Savannah, Georgia, they’d be angry too. It wouldn’t make them right.

    1. The recording is evidently from 1970 – made in the aftermath of the “Black September”. As to Kanafani himself, the only good thing about him is that he was whacked out by the Israelis in 1972. It looks like the interview was not released at the time because Kanafani comes off as the unsophisticated fanatical buffoon that he was.

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