Before resettling to America, Yousef was a loyal Hamas operative, expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. But he soon became disillusioned with Hamas, after witnessing them brutalizing and torturing their own members. As a result, Yousef ended up working as an undercover agent for Shin Bet, the elite Israeli security service and served for over a decade as the agency’s most valuable resource for information about the terrorist group’s leadership and activities.
HAARETZ According to Yousef, “Hamas will never make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a cease-fire, and no one knows that better than I. The Hamas leadership is responsible for the killing of Palestinians, NOT Israelis,” he said.
“Palestinians do not hesitate to massacre people in a mosque or to throw people from the high floor floor of a building, as they did during their takeover of in Gaza.” “I tell you with certainty that the Israelis care about the Palestinians far more than the Hamas or Fatah leadership does.”
Hamas leaders would commit beatings, floggings, needles under the fingernails, melting of plastic on the body, weeks of sleep deprivation on anyone who they accused of collaborating with the enemy.
NPR During the 1980s and 1990s, the Yousef family was akin to royalty among Palestinians in the West Bank. Mosab Hassan Yousef’s grandfather was a popular imam. And his father was one of the founding members of the militant Islamist group Hamas.
In the eyes of his family, he is a traitor to his faith and people. If he were to walk the streets of his home town, he would be killed on sight. Today, he lives in Southern California, taking security precautions lest he be assassinated. There is no question that Mosab Hassan has burned his bridges behind him.
In his memoir, SON OF HAMAS, Yousef tells his story. He experienced a sort of epiphany, turning against Hamas and his family, to become a key informant for the Israeli intelligence agency the Shin Bet. The intelligence he provided allowed Israeli officials to prevent acts of terror, saving many innocent lives.
Some of the victims of the suicide bombers were wanted by the Americans for murders of their citizens. It was his information that helped crack cases that the Israelis could not crack.
The Hamas Network in America:
• Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of a nationwide Hamas network engaged in fundraising, lobbying, education and propaganda dissemination dating back to the 1980s.
• The network formalized its existence in 1988, when it created the Palestine Committee in the US. The Committee’s goals included “increasing the financial and the moral support for Hamas,” “fighting surrendering solutions,” and publicizing “the savagery of the Jews.”
• The Palestine Committee spawned several public-facing organizations, most of which are based out of Chicago, Dallas, and Washington DC. They included the all-purpose Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the financial arm represented by the Occupied Land Fund (which later became the Holy Land Foundation, HLF), and the think tank United Association for Studies and
Research (UASR).• In 1993, the FBI wiretapped a meeting of top Hamas activists in the US held in Philadelphia. The wiretaps show internal discussions on how to improve activities in support of Hamas within the US and how to shield them from the designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. US-based Hamas activists agreed that hiding their affiliation and intentions was the best tactic to avoid
negative consequences. “I swear by Allah that war is deception,” said one senior leader, “[d]eceive, camouflage, pretend that you’re leaving while you’re walking that way. Deceive your enemy.” “Let’s not hoist a large Islamic flag and let’s not be barbaric-talking. We will remain a front so that if the thing [the U.S. government ban on Hamas] happens, we will benefit from the new happenings instead of having all of our organizations classified and exposed.”• Over the years, US authorities have conducted several activities to clamp down on the network, including deporting and prosecuting Hamas operatives and shutting down multiple front organizations. The 2001 designation of HLF and subsequent prosecution of part of its leadership for funneling approximately $12.4 million to Hamas constitutes to date the largest
successful terrorism financing prosecution in US history.• Yet, US-based Hamas networks and individuals have displayed a remarkable resilience and many of the core activists of the Palestine Committee are still engaged in various forms of support (albeit at times purely political and not material) for Hamas.
h/t Marvin W
Luxy Terna says
Mossab looks a lot like Jack Smith
The Tasmanian Devil says
A manuscript for why ALL HAMAS and ALL PALESTINIANS must be erased from the Earth.
ME Infidel says
BNI, Brigitte Gabriel, Tom Trento, Frank Gaffney, Robert Spencer, John Guandolo, Pam Geller, David Horowitz and many others have been warning us about the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood for well over a decade. Ex., “Sharia: The Threat To America” c. 2010. Welcome to the party, Mark Levin. Better late than never.
Fyi, the Muslim Brotherhood created the first North American front group, the Muslim Students Association, in 1963 at the University of Illinois in Urbana, pg. 173 from the above source, which now has 600+ chapters on college campuses. It’s no secret why students are sympathetic to the “Palestinians” to those who pay attention.
So, what’s it going to take for the mainstream media to wake the F up? Another 9/11 or worse now that OBiden and the traitors in his administration have flagrantly allowed the wolves to enter the henhouse?
BareNakedIslam says
And CAIR is the original Muslim Brotherhood front group here.
Marisol Enrique says
Bonni, I read about Yousef and he convincingly provides the world with irrefutable evidence that the horrific Hamas attacks on the Kibbutzim and music festival were part of a “Religious War” as commanded by the Qur’an (“Kill them wherever you find them, smite them at their necks and cut off every finger tip of them.”) Hamas military commander Muhammad Deif gave this final message in Gaza on Hamas TV shortly before the attacks began on October 7, and then cowardly went into hiding with Yahya Sinwar, the two masterminds and architects of this sickening, brutal Religious War of rape, torture, mutilation, execution and death. The world has to WAKE UP and stop the denials!!
BareNakedIslam says
I don’t hold out much hope for the world. They still see Israel as the aggressor/occupier. Most of them have no idea that no Israeli
has even been in Gaza, let alone lived there since 2005.
Daniel A says
Hey, I’m back 🙂
Some organisations regard Israel as the occupying power due to its blockade of the territory (why isn’t Egypt also an occupier then?), but we know the blockades exist due to security reasons.
How many of the general Western population know that this is what “occupation” means, as opposed to Israelis actually being present?
BareNakedIslam says
Less tha 1%.
Daniel A says
One of my coworkers many years ago was the former president of his MSA. I confronted him a few times about it (and Islam), and he maintained that all they did at MSA was to throw parties. He didn’t seem too political, but then he also tried to feed me some BS about Islam that I contradicted.
BareNakedIslam says
Their presence on college campuses should not be allowed.