He is not his father’s son.
In a stunning revelation, the son of a Hamas founder told an Israeli newspaper this week that he once served as an Israeli intelligence agent. Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, told the Israeli daily Haaretz that he spied for more than ten years on the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.
In his role as Israeli informant, Yousef is credited with helping arrest high-ranking terrorists. Much more important, however, is that he also saved the lives of “hundreds of innocent people” with the information he provided the Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet, about pending suicide attacks. “So many people owe their lives to him and don’t even know it,” Yousef’s unidentified Shin Bet handler told Haaretz.
Yousef’s Israeli handler went on to relate how the “Green Prince” – Yousef’s codename, taken from the color for Islam – personally picked out a suicide bomber in a Ramallah square and followed him until an arrest could be made.
Next week, Yousef’s memoir about his experiences in the terrorist organization will be published in the United States. Aptly named Son Of Hamas, the book is described on Yousef’s Facebook site as “a gripping account of terror, betrayal, political intrigue, and unthinkable choices.”
A tale of terror: Mosab Hassan Yousef’s memoir will be released next week.
Besides offering a uniquely intimate glimpse into the murderous world of Islamic terrorism, Yousef’s revelation of his Israeli spy past represents another serious blow to Hamas. This week, police in Dubai indicated the senior Hamas operative killed in his hotel room in the emirate last month, reputedly by an Israeli hit team, may in fact have been set up with information provided by the terrorist organization itself.
Yousef’s admission, coming so soon after the Dubai reversal, will likely cause Hamas members to wonder how deeply their ranks have been penetrated by informers. History shows that terrorist organizations, such as the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party in Russia, suspecting such infiltration among their membership, sometimes carried out murderous purges that often claimed the innocent as well as the guilty. A few more such Israeli intelligence coups may see the same thing occur inside Hamas.
Shin Bet recruited Yousef in an Israeli prison in 1996. Thanks to his competence and professionalism, he came to be regarded as a very valuable asset, his existence known to only a handful of Shin Bet operatives. “His grasp of intelligence matters was just as good as ours – the ideas, the insights. One insight of his was worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts,” said his former handler.
But what struck the Israelis the most was that in the shadow world of terrorism, where most things have a price, Yousef did not accept any payment. “The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money,” said the handler. “He did things he believed in. He wanted to save lives.”
The probable reason for a Muslim terrorist’s unusual regard for the sanctity of human life may prove to be as interesting a story as Yousef’s spying activities with Hamas. Over a decade ago, Yousef, who now lives in California, converted to Christianity.
While the conversion of Muslims to Christianity is less well known than from Christianity to Islam, it does occur. One of the reason Christian groups often keep them secret, or don’t keep statistics, is that Muslim apostates are subject to the death penalty under Islam’s Sharia law. So, even if Yousef had never worked for Israeli intelligence, his life would still be in peril. But the fact that a high-ranking Hamas member with such a sterling terrorist pedigree (his father is currently serving a six-year sentence in an Israeli prison) would convert, while highly unusual, is not unknown. There are reports that even members of the Muslim Brotherhood have abandoned their Islamic faith.
One such Brotherhood member, who once burned a church in his Middle Eastern country, converted after he was asked by a senior Brotherhood member to read the New Testament and write an anti-Cristian tract. Instead of producing the assigned anti-Christian screed, however, he was so drawn to Christ’s personility and the Bible’s central messages of love and forgiveness, that he not only converted but became an evangelist with another Brotherhood convert. In a grim warning to Muslim apostates, both were later hunted down by their former coreligionists and savagely murdered.
In discovering his new faith, Yousef appears also to have discovered a new value for human life. In particular, he has become an outspoken advocate of Israel’s security interests. Besides his life-saving work for Shin Bet, Yousef has strongly apposed any effort by Israel to exchange imprisoned terrorists for the Israeli soldier, Gilad Schalit, whom Hamas kidnapped three years ago.
Yousef knows probably better than anyone more people will be killed in terrorist attacks if the prisoners are released. He has already blamed Hamas for killing Palestinians and not Israel. His opposition is such that he told Haaretz he was willing to “put on an army uniform and join Israel’s Special Forces in order to liberate Gilad Schalit.” As Yousef puts it, “We wasted so many years with investigations and arrests to capture the very terrorists that they now want to release in return for Schalit. That must not be done.”
As for those who continue to counsel Israel to bend to the terrorists’ demands, Yousef speaks a hard truth founded on years of personal experience: “Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels.” Those are hardly the words one would expect to hear from the son of a Hamas founder, but Mosab Hassan Yousef’s tale is extraordinary – not least because he has lived to tell it.
God bless and protect Yousef.
Amen to that. Yousef is a courageous young man who serves humanity. May God bless and keep him.
When comes a french translation of this book??
Hamas : not only Israel is concerned.
While there are sanctions against Hamas, there is no concerted effort to overthrow the regime, even by those who claim to be in favor of Israel-Palestinian peace as a high priority. But as long as Hamas is in power there can be no such peace. Indeed, the main international attempt was to restrain Israel in its war in Gaza and then to criticize it afterward in a way that positively benefits Hamas. However, not only Israel is concerned as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/10/l…
Why do we never hear calls for Hamas leaders to be charged with war crimes?
Why, for example, do we hear no calls for human rights investigations into Hamas gunmen using Palestinian children as human shields? Why so few stories on the reports of Hamas assassins going to hospitals to hunt down their fellow Palestinians? And where are the international human rights groups demanding that Hamas stop blurring the most fundamental line in warfare: the distinction between civilian and combatant? Did the West surrender to Islam or does anti-Semitism prevail over justice? As to what Islam means for all of us consult : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/03/d…
Why was Russia never investigated for "war crimes" after its invasion of Georgia? The two cases have a few similarities:
1) Hamas initiated it by attacking Israel. Georgia initiated it by attacking Russian "peacekeepers" in S. Osettia
2) Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation. Russia invaded Georgia in retaliation.
3) 1300 Palestinians were killed. 1100 Georgians were killed.
Objectively speaking, if Israel's act of retaliation was worthy of war crimes investigation then so was Russia's. And if Russia's was not, then neither was Israel's. But I haven't heard a peep out of anyone about investigating Russia. Where's the Russian Goldstone?
And how many civilians have been killed by NATO in Afghanistan? I'sd guess at least 1,000. Why not a Goldstone report on that?
As you suggest, it's all about ganging up on Israel to appease UN Islamic states, appease European Muslims to win domestic elections, Europe's fear of its Muslim populations, geo-political factors, international energ business considerations, and plain old fashiooned anti-Semitism.
Is future gloomy also for America ?
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No! to peace at any price.
To cry peace, peace, when there is no peace, as the Jewish prophet, Jeremiah, taught us long ago, is not an expression of hope but a foolish and dangerous abrogation of reality. It dulls the mind and the aspiration of a people who then become lost and blinded under a veritable veil of deception. Peace is impossible for a nation like Israel without its own demonstration of unassailable military strength and its utter rejection of concessions to an implacable enemy. The Arab world respects strength. It treats concessions with complete and utter scorn. It considers overtures of peace as a sign of weakness and becomes emboldened in its aggression. Enough! No more concessions :
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This Moslem terrorist movement has begun to fracture. Now the US must exploit its advantages. If anything Westerners must keep up the pressure until that boiler room blows itself up.
Do they still show Hamas TV and have Mickey Mouse killed? It is a death culture which only the Vatican may heal. Netanyahu should move south, raise an army of monsters from Egypt, have Egypt assimilate the Palestinians into their death cult, and move the Nation of Israel inside California and have the Saudis police their shrines. Everyone will be dead, so everyone will be happy.
It is either that or the Fog and Night campaign in which Israel has been participating. Congratulations, He Who Wrestles With Angels, you have never been Adolph Hitler but you are certainly on the borderline of Reynhard Heydrich. Oh, where is Moyshe Dayan when you need him.
eerie Steve….you are not amusing. Your tedious psycho babble…most readers just skip your idiotic posts. Just thought someone should let you know.
The last sentence of the above opening statement of this thread , speaks volumes , and is an eyeopener for the uninformed AND the MISINFORMED .
INDEED ! PEACE IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH INFIDELS …..a dictate from their god . WHO is gonna change that ? WHO will reason with that ? WHO can negotiate or compromise with THAT ?
Answer : NOBODY
And this not just the view of Hamas …it is ALL of Islam .
God help Israel
Shin Bet recruited Yousef in an Israeli prison in 1996. Thanks to his competence and professionalism, he came to be regarded as a very valuable ASSET. his existence known to only a handful of Shin Bet operatives. The key word is ASSET, which means he is now vulnerable and probably a target of Hamas. ASSETS are considered expendable once they are exposed in the intelligence community, and the Mossad is no exception.
He is a very courageous man and I pray that God will keep him safe!
It`s about time the governments of the West realise what a danger political correctness is, we are shooting ourselves in the foot! This threat has to be faced before it is too late and it is not only Israel that suffers!
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Destroy Islam.
What is being done to protect Yousef? This ‘Asset’ is wide open for a hit himself. God Bless and protect him.
israel should be careful not to trust too much may be he has plan to infiltrate the army and give information to hamas ( double agent ) of course he could be sincere but precaution is important.
You are such a good person. I hope God will give you long life to give more help and hope to all people.
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Good job Yousef. I am amazed their are no islamists commenting on your "evil" deeds. Oh well they are probably to busy trying to figure out who else in their midst is a spy hehhehehehe. That ought to keep them busy for a while, plus it should decrease their numbers once the smoke clears. There is nothing like a good purging
While there are sanctions against Hamas, there is no concerted effort to overthrow the regime, even by those who claim to be in favor of Israel-Palestinian peace as a high priority.
israel should be careful not to http://www.interpretation-reves.org/trust too much may be he has plan to infiltrate the army and give information to hamas ( double agent ) of course he could be sincere but precaution is important.