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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Mosab Hassan Yousef on Palestine

2025-06-13

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A message from the past for the new generation of what so called pro-palestine. pic.twitter.com/nF9EDBsbrU
— Mosab Hassan Yousef (@MosabHasanYOSEF) June 13, 2025

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Britain

Niall Ferguson: The Rot In Britain‐and the Remedy

2024-12-06

[Free Press] Something is rotten in the state of Britain. It was epitomized by a recent event at the Oxford Union, the 201-year-old debating society that is such a distinctive and admirable part of Oxford life. It was at the Union that, 40 years ago, I spoke as freely (and indeed as irresponsibly) as I ever have, discovering in the process that I was not cut out for politics. It was there that I saw great debaters of the past, present, and future.

But I never saw anything like the events of November 28.

The motion for debate was in itself a provocation:

Of course. And intentionally so. As probably was the one back in the day when Oxford men resolved not to fight for their country against the Nazis — university lads being dangerously sophomoric, self-righteous idiots…

"This House Believes Israel Is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide." But what was truly shocking was the conduct of the president of the Union, an Egyptian student named Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy, who appears to have abused his position by openly siding with those proposing the motion and treating the opposing speakers with contempt.

According to the broadcaster, Jonathan Sacerdoti, who was arguing for Israel’s side, Osman-Mowafy canceled the traditional pre-debate group photographs, but posed alone for private photos with the anti-Israel team. During the debate, the pro-Israel speakers were repeatedly heckled by the crowd. At one point, a young woman stood up and screamed at Sacerdoti: "Liar! Fuck you, the genocidal motherfucker!"

Unerzogen, say the Germans. Déclassé, the French. New money, sneer the English, as appropriate, or overbred. The Russians would say nekulturny, but nobody listens to them nowadays, even when they’re right.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a senior Hamas leader who defected to Israel, who was arguing alongside Sacerdoti, was met with jeering derision and cries of "traitor" and "prostitute" (in Arabic). Yousef asked the audience to indicate by a show of hands how many of them would have reported prior knowledge of the October 7, 2023, atrocities to Israel. Not even a quarter of the crowd raised their hands.

For the other side, Miko Peled, an Israeli general’s son turned radical anti-Zionist, described the murders, rapes, and kidnappings of October 7 as "acts of heroism." The Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd, who has equated Zionism with genocide, began his speech by announcing that there was "no room for debate" and ended it by walking out of the chamber. The motion passed by 278 in favor to 59 against.

Three cheers for the 59, though they may need eventually to find their careers in Donald Trump’s America or some other free country.

Reading reports of this shameful fiasco at my alma mater, I found myself wondering: Where are the Thought Police when you really need them? After all, the Oxford Union’s latest debate sounded a lot like one of those "noncrime hate incidents" that currently consume so much of the British police’s time.

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Fifth Column

In viral video, former Israeli hostage confronts anti-Israel activist: ‘I’m asking you to check facts’

2024-11-20

[IsraelTimes] A video of a former Israeli hostage confronting an anti-Israel activist on a panel has gone viral for the woman’s comments on coexistence and the need for activists to learn the facts on the conflict.

Moran Stella Yanai, who was held hostage for 54 days in Gaza before being freed in the November 2023 deal, recently took part in a panel on the Gaza conflict alongside Aidan Doyle, who was a leader of the anti-Israel encampment at UCLA. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the pro-Israeli disowned son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, was also on the panel.

Noting that she had worked with Arabs and had been friends with Arabs for years, Yanai confronted Doyle on his vociferous criticism of Israel.

“Have you ever been to Israel? Have you visited Gaza before? Probably not,” she said, which Doyle, visibly uncomfortable as she spoke, did not contest. “Did you know that the vast majority of the hostages believe in coexisting?”

Yanai went on: “On October 7, and this is what [the terrorists] told me, they didn’t know about the Nova festival, they didn’t know that we have 3,000 people there. They planned, and they told me that, they planned to move on and kill as much as they could. In Beersheba, in Tel Aviv, in Haifa — they wanted to slaughter everybody.

“When I was entering Gaza and there is a video that I saw, 100% of civilians celebrating me being taken… All I saw was 100% of civilians lynching me, beating me up. I was with a broken leg. I had bruises all over my body. Do you know that I’ve never cursed them? I’ve never argued with them. And I’ve never treated them like garbage. I respected them even when they abused me, because I believe that if I want to be respected, I have to respect everybody else.

“So I’m asking you one thing and one thing only because I see you’re not comfortable. I’m asking you to check facts on both sides.”

RELEASED HOSTAGE MORAN STELLA YANAI explains in simple human terms to UCLA Encampment leader Aidan Doyle what she thinks would likely solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict. MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF ("Son of Hamas") adds his perspective.

SEE THE FULL DEBATE (Part I and Part II) FEATURING MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF ("Son of Hamas"), moderated by David Rouda on YouTube @Gr8.Debate

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Naim Kassem, Nasrallah’s former deputy, admitted Hezbollah’s military distress by calling for an ‘unconditional’ ceasefire; Israel demands Hezbollah disarm and pull back beyond the Litani River

2024-10-09

[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Yesterday he “unconditionally” demanded Israel put down weapons first. Now he is separating from Gaza’s war…

BREAKING 🚨🚨

Hezbollah’s Desperation: Unconditional Ceasefire Plea

Naim Kassem, Nasrallah’s former deputy, admitted Hezbollah’s military distress by calling for an unconditional ceasefire. He demanded Israel halt its fire first, with details to be discussed later— a move… pic.twitter.com/CDvMpAP5xB
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 8, 2024

Nasrallah’s “deputy” Naim Qassim is calling for unconditional ceasefire between Hizb-Allah and Israel, dropping Gaza from Hizbollah’s war agendas.

Humiliated and defeated. pic.twitter.com/GcUA7C4LBd
— Mosab Hassan Yousef (@MosabHasanYOSEF) October 8, 2024

Israel’s response is just like UNSC Resolution 1701, that ended the 2006 Lebanon War. The one that Hassan Nasrallah swore Hezbollah would respect, back in the day. Sadly, he can’t swear again to respect it now.

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The French Foreign Ministry announced this evening (Tuesday) that Israel has set conditions for a ceasefire in Lebanon, requiring Hezbollah’s disarmament and its withdrawal north of the Litani River.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 8, 2024

That’s one message. See here for a different one. And then there is pressure from Iran, according to the Times of Israel:

According to a Channel 12 report on Tuesday citing unnamed sources in Beirut, Iran is pushing Hezbollah to seek out a ceasefire deal in order to "cut its losses" after a long list of brass hats in the group have been killed in recent weeks.

Visiting Beirut on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran backs efforts for a ceasefire in Leb
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on the condition it would be backed by Hezbollah and be simultaneous with a ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip.

US State Department front man Matthew Miller said Tuesday that Qassem’s public backing of ceasefire efforts shows that Hezbollah is "on the back foot and is getting battered," leading the group to "change their tune."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Former Hamas terrorist: Hamas ceasefire proposal is a trap

2024-05-07

[JPost] Mosab Hassan Yousef, a former Hamas member turned informant, warns against Hamas' ceasefire offer, advising Israel to demand hostages' release before agreeing.

"Hamas's last-minute ceasefire proposal is a trap," declared Mosab Hassan Yousef on social media platform X.

The former Hamas terrorist, who later became an undercover agent for Israel's Shin Bet, advised that Israel should not accept the ceasefire unless it includes the unconditional release of all hostages and the resignation of Hamas from power.

NEGOTIATING HOSTAGE RELEASE
He urged Israel to outsmart Hamas by demanding the release of all hostages in exchange for the cessation of the Rafah operation.

This warning comes against the backdrop of intense negotiations in Cairo, where Egyptian and Qatari delegations are engaged despite Hamas' acceptance of a ceasefire deal.

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Terror Networks

Mark Levin Interviews High-Level Hamas Defector

2014-07-31

Those who get their Hamas news from Nancy Pelosi, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan (our NATO ally Turkey), or the many Muslim Brotherhood friends of the Obama administration and its State Department may think of this ruthless jihadist enterprise as a humanitarian or political organization. But if you want to know the real Hamas and dont have time to read the Hamas charter, which explains it will be satisfied with nothing less than the destruction of Israel you would do well to listen to an important interview Mark Levin conducted last night.

Marks guest was Mosab Hassan Yousef, a Hamas defector who is the son of one of the organizations founders, operated at the highest levels of Hamas, and understands the organization through and through.

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Great White North

Son of Hamas founder says God will protect Israel

2011-11-20

Palestinian Arab Mosab Hassan Yousef, a former spy for the Shin Bet, is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder of Hamas. Last week, he delivered an impassioned lecture to a Canadian audience about his bumpy journey from Hamas activist to defender of Israel and admirer of the Jewish people.

Given his notoriety, security was extremely tight. People who had bought tickets for the event were required to show photo IDs twice before being admitted.

Yousef said, "I was born as a son of a Hamas leader and dedicated myself to Islam. I have a very good understanding of what Islam is all about."

Asserting that Hamas is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood with the goal of destroying Israel and building an Islamic state on the rubble, Yousef said he developed a hatred for Israel after his fathers arrest when he was 10 years old.

Having himself been arrested and imprisoned by Israel, Yousef agreed to work for the Shin Bet. "I had a hidden agenda. I wanted to take revenge."

But in jail, he discovered that his fellow Hamas inmates were brutal, were quick to murder Palestinians deemed to be collaborators and did not care about sacrificing the lives of ordinary Palestinians to reach their objectives.

Introduced to Christianity by a British missionary in 1999, Yousef found himself and continued spying for Israel, getting a reputation as one of its most useful agents. He said, "I dont believe I did anything wrong working for Israel. You cant go wrong saving human lives."

Yousef suggested that Palestinians should be satisfied with self-rule, saying that a Palestinian state would not fit into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "It would be like fitting an elephant into the eye of an eagle."

He claimed that the creation of a Palestinian state would bring war and destruction to the Middle East. "I want my people to recognize Israels right to this historic land," he declared, saying Palestinians should learn from "the Jewish nation" that life is more important than death or vengeance.

Yousef asserted that further that western civilization will fall if Israel fails, said that God will "protect" Israel, urged the international community to stop Irans nuclear program, denounced Hamas as a duplicitous organization and claimed that Arab culture is underpinned by shame, fear and intimidation.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Mosab Hassan Yousef, Son of Hamas: the Long Con

2011-05-14

While a prisoner of Israel in 1996, Mosab Hassan Yousef the son of Sheik Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas was approached by Shin Bet agents who looked to recruit him to spy within Hamas. He agreed. Mosabs information soon had Shin Bet calling him the most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, and Israeli lives were undoubtedly saved as a result of Mosabs collaboration.

Despite this success, Yousef has since revealed himself to be more double agent than turncoat.

During the initial contact within Israels Maskubia (Jerusalems central prison), Mosab agreed to collaborate in exchange for Israel not targeting his father. After years of providing valuable intelligence, in 2007 Mosab declared his conversion to Christianity, moved to California, and went public with his story. His tale was a sensation, drawing attention and praise from U.S. pro-Israel organizations. But his tale has since been revealed to be a long con, the evidence coming from when he speaks publicly in Arabic.

Mosab did not convert to what the West would recognize as Christianity, but to a fiery, Palestinian brand of the faith that is vehemently anti-Israel. According to Mosab, his main goal in coming to the U.S. is to infiltrate the main source of international support for Israel: the American church.

To Mosab, the Palestinian struggle was lacking: while he praises Hamas leaders as heroes and glorious defenders, he instructs them to enlist more educated political defenders like himself:

With regret, our great leaders and mighty heroes and glorious defenders over there did not realize that instead of spending their wealth and monies on silly issues, they needed to enlist in their ranks writers and educated individuals in order to reverse the image of the Palestinian struggle

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Mosab stated that he is only against Hamas methodology, but not their agenda:

It appeared at first that my desire was to seek revenge against Hamas How could I do such a thing revenge [against] my own father? He is one of the leaders of Hamas.

Much more at the link.

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Home Front: WoT

Judge agrees to grant asylum to ex-Israeli spy/Son of Hamas founder

2010-06-30

A good move - he's welcome here in San Diego
The son of a Hamas founder who became a Christian and an Israeli spy will be granted U.S. asylum after he passes a routine background check, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday. Mosab Hassan Yousef got the news during a 15-minute deportation hearing after a U.S. Department of Homeland Security attorney said the government was dropping its objections.

The agency denied Yousef's asylum request in February 2009, arguing that he had been involved in terrorism and was a threat to the United States. Attorney Kerri Calcador gave no explanation for the government's change of heart.

The immigration judge, Rico Bartolomei, ruled that Yousef will be allowed to remain in the United States after he is fingerprinted and passes a routine background check.

Yousef, who has been living in San Diego, was cheered by supporters as he left the hearing. He said he loves living in California, wants to become a U.S. citizen and hopes to pursue a master's degree in history and geography.

"I will keep fighting the ideology that is behind terrorists because I know how they think," he said outside the courtroom.

Yousef, 32, said he could not explain the government's abrupt decision, but said authorities may have had second thoughts after reviewing his case more closely.

"For 10 years, he fought terrorism in secret, hiding what he was doing and who he was," his attorney, Steven Seick, wrote in a court filing. "He deserves a safe place away from violence and fear."

Yousef had argued that he would be killed if he was deported because he spied on the militant group for Israel's Shin Bet security's intelligence agency and abandoned Islam.

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Home Front: WoT

Congressmen Seek to Halt Deportation of Son of Hamas Founder Who Became Spy for Israel

2010-06-25

Washington (CNSNews.com) Eight members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, urging her not to deport the son of the founder of the terrorist group Hamas. The son, Mosab Hassan Yousef, became a spy for the Israeli government in the late 1990s and reportedly stopped several terrorist attacks.

In 2009, the United States rejected Yousef's petition for asylum. Yousef, who converted from Islam to Christianity, would likely be in danger if forced to return to the West Bank, which is run by the Palestinian Authority and borders Israel, Jordan and the Dead Sea.

The letter, circulated by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), tells Napolitano "to take in all the evidence" about the case.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Deporting 'Son of Hamas'

2010-06-12

The U.S. may send an antiterror agent back to the West Bank.

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a best-selling author who wrote "Son of Hamas" about his life as a Palestinian who became an informant for Israeli intelligence. He's probably near the top of every Islamist terror hit list, yet, incredibly enough, the U.S. may soon deport him as a terror threat.

In 2007, Mr. Yousef came to the United States, where he converted to Christianity from Islam and applied for political asylum. The request was denied in February 2009, Mr. Yousef says, on grounds that he was potentially "a danger to the security of the United States" and had "engaged in terrorist activity." His case has automatically proceeded to the deportation stage, and on June 30 at 8 a.m. he will appear before Judge Rico Bartolomei in Homeland Security Immigration Court in San Diego.

Homeland Security is well aware of the author's history, and in fact is using it against him. According to Mr. Yousef, a letter from Homeland Security attorney Kerri Calcador cites passages in "Son of Hamas" as evidence of his connection to terrorist leaders and suggests that the work he did for Hamas while spying for Israel provided aid to terrorists. "At a bare minimum, evidence of the respondent's transport of Hamas members to safe houses . . . indicates that the respondent provided material support to a [Tier I] terrorist organization," the U.S. lawyer wrote.

But unless Ms. Calcador knows more than she's saying, this is bizarre. As a spy for Israel, Mr. Yousef had to make his colleagues believe he was a loyal member of Hamas. He used that trust to gain information that he provided to Israeli intelligence, which used it to prevent terror attacks and save lives. One of Mr. Yousef's handlers at Shin Bet confirmed his book's account to the Israeli daily Haaretz, and his father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has disowned him from the Israeli prison he has occupied since 2005. (See our Weekend Interview with the younger Yousef, "They Need to Be Liberated From Their God," March 6, 2010.)

The problem seems to be that, under a provision of U.S. immigration law, anyone who is shown to have provided "material support" for terrorist organizations is automatically denied asylum. In the relentless way that bureaucracy works, this is being interpreted as leaving little discretion for deserving exceptions like the case of Mr. Yousef. In some cases Homeland Security does have the power to issue a waiver of this "no admission" rule--an option that was not exercised before Mr. Yousef's asylum was denied.

If Mr. Yousef were a security threat, you'd expect that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would have found reason to detain him. Yet he remains free to travel and even to hit the book-selling circuit. A senior government official tells us that Homeland Security will "not be mounting a stiff defense" of the 2009 decision to deny him asylum, which is at least one burst of common sense.

Mr. Yousef is a native of the West Bank, which is where he would presumably return if he is deported and where Hamas would immediately seek to kill him. Under the Convention Against Torture, the U.S. has an international treaty obligation not to return people to countries where their lives would be at risk. That concern stopped the return to China of the Uighers at Guantanamo, and rightly so. It would dishonor the U.S. to deport a convert in the war on terror because our immigration bureaucracy is too obtuse to make even life and death distinctions.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Moderate Muslim watch: Palestinian Zionist Organization announced

2010-04-22

(IsraelNationalNews.com) - For the first time since pre-State days when Zion and Palestine were synonymous terms, a Palestinian Zionist Organization' has been established by Arabs.

The latest Arab to show his public support for Israel is Elias Issa, who describes himself as a European West-Bank Palestinian.' He writes that he chose a unique approach by which to celebrate Israel's 62nd birthday namely, by launching the Palestinian Zionist Organization. He says his goal is to show the world why it must support the Jewish people and to [distance itself] from the terrorist Palestinian government.'

Statements on the new website include warnings that a new PA state, if it were to arise, would become the most terrorist state in the world The Palestinians don't believe in a two-state solution; they only believe in a one-state solution - a land called Palestine [which] does not involve any Jewishness."

Issa, who now lives in the United States, explains that the international community is blind to what's truly going on in this Middle East conflict. [I hope] to make a difference by shining a different kind of light on the Palestinian-Israeli situation.'

The website notes that more and more Palestinians' are going public in their support for Israel. Just last month, Mosab Hassan Yousef the son of a Hamas founder and leader published his autobiography, detailing how he spied for Israel for a decade, preventing dozens of suicide attacks and exposing numerous terrorist groups. He later converted to Christianity and moved to the U.S.

There is also Walid Shoebat, one of the more famous figures on this list. Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, the grandson of the Mukhtar of Beit Sahour. Shoebat joined the PLO in his youth, and was involved in attacks against Israel, and later moved to the U.S. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Shoebat became an active advocate against Islamism and a fervent supporter of the State of Israel, arguing that parallels exist between radical Islam and Nazism.

Speaking to Israel National Radio's Tovia Singer some years ago, Shoebat said, I deeply wish to be granted forgiveness from the [IDF] soldier whom I almost killed I would beg [him] to please understand that I underwent an educational occupation of hatred which brainwashed my mind to hate Jews. We were taught it since we were children and I did not know any better.'

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, once a member of an Islamic terror organization, took part in last year's Facing Tomorrow' conference in Jerusalem. He believes that the Jews have done their best, and that it's now the Muslim world's turn to make some changes and concessions You [the Jewish People] are a great nation, and in the most difficult times, such as when the Nazis were putting you in ovens, you were able to get out of it and build a great country of human rights and so, don't let your country surrender to barbarism; fight for it and use every tactic you can use to stand against it Never make concessions to radicals; the more concessions you make, the more they attack you.'

Another former terrorist, ex-Arafat aide and terrorist Taysir Saada, converted to Christianity and now heads Hope for Ishmael, an organization dedicated to reconciling Arabs and Jews.

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