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		the Hamas Movement spokesman in the West Bank, detained by IDF until 9/6/2003

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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Founder of Hamas’ son, Mosab Hassan completely obliterates pro Palestinians supporters on Dr Phil’s show

2024-04-05

MUST WATCH:

Founder of Hxmas’ son, Mosab Hassan completely obliterates pro Palestinians supporters on Dr Phil’s show. WOW

Via @etanadeeIL pic.twitter.com/tIMkkuNEhn
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 4, 2024

🔥"Now we have the problem of the pro-Palestine who are actually giving Hamas cover. They are participants in the crime. In fact, since Oct 7, I personally don't differentiate between Hamas and so-called Palestinians."

🔥"You don't know what Palestine is. In fact, the kaffiyeh that you're wearing is just a statement to show that you really lack the authenticity to represent the kids."

🔥"The cause must die. Enough is enough... and you are helping Hamas to prove to the world that Palestine depends on the destruction of the State of Israel. This is not acceptable and we are not going to agree to it."

"For the next ten or twenty years, the Palestinian people will pay the bill for what Hamas has caused today."

The Son of Hamas,
@MosabHasanYOSEF
appeared on Dr. Phil and faced off against two seniors from the University of Michigan and ripped their arguments to shreds. ⤵️

People who support Hamas, and people who claim to support Palestinians but refuse to condemn Hamas are COMPLICIT in the evil of Hamas, and it's time to tell them that to their faces.

Thank you, Mr. Yosef, for your voice and incredible moral clarity!

The full interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UPomqJz-qYc

PJ Media discusses the interview here, identifying him as:

Mosab Hasan Yosef, the son of Hamas cofounder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.

The violence perpetrated by Hamas ended up disturbing Yousef so much that he not only broke with the jihad group but also helped Israeli intelligence, Breitbart explained. Yousef also converted to Christianity.

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Hamas West Bank leader said freed from detention after 16 months

2020-07-25

[IsraelTimes] Hassan Yusef, co-founder of terror group and father to ’Son of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,,’ said released without trial after arrest last year at Ramallah home.

Israel on Thursday freed a big shot of Hamas in the West Bank after imprisoning him without trial for 16 months, his son said.

Hassan Yusef, a co-founder of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based terror group, was arrested on April 2 last year at his home near Ramallah.

"He is now at home and is in good health," his son Owais Yusef told AFP.

Following his arrest, Yusef was handed a six-month detention order that was extended for another six months and then for a further four, his son said. The 65-year-old, who has been arrested multiple times, had been released from a previous 10-month term of imprisonment in October 2018.

Israel’s administrative detention system allows the internment of prisoners for renewable periods of up to six months each, without bringing charges. Israel says the procedure allows authorities to hold suspects and prevent attacks while continuing to gather evidence, but critics and rights groups say the system is abused.

Around 350 Paleostinians were being held under administrative detention orders at the end of May, the latest data currently available, according to Israeli human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
organization B’Tselem.

The group said the evidence against detainees was not disclosed.

A member of the now-defunct Paleostinian parliament, Hassan Yusef is estranged from his eldest son, Mosab Hassan Yusef, who for 10 years spied against Hamas and for Israel.

From 1997 to 2007, Mosab Hassan Yusef worked for Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, before relocating to the United States, where he lives under a new identity.

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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

Hamas lawmaker, 770 Palestinian prisoners freed

2011-08-05

RAMALLAH: The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on Thursday released 770 Palestinian prisoners including a Hamas lawmaker. The Israels Radio said that the 570 criminal and 200 security prisoners were released through several checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.

Security prisoners is a term Israel uses to refer to prisoners who were convicted of resisting the Israeli occupation.

The Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-detainees said that the 770 prisoners, from West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab cities inside Israel, were released from the Israeli prisons of Ketziot and Nafha (Rimon) after serving their terms.

No word on Shalit...

The ministry said that the prisoners were not released according to an Israeli law which allows the directors of Israeli prisons to reduce the sentence by one or two months in accordance with the prisoners humanitarian condition. The law was suspended after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to take away Palestinian prisoners privileges in order to pressure Hamas into releasing kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

The rightist Israeli channel 7 television said that the prisoners were released according to a new regulation enacted several days ago by the IPS after much pressure from the Israeli Knesset Interior and Environment Committee. The new regulation states that the maximum number of prisoners in Israeli penal institutions cannot exceed 17,700. It added that each prisoner must be given at least 3 square meters of living area, and dividing that area with the amount of space in all of the countrys prisons yields a figure of 17,700. After Thursdays release, the prisoner population is now in balance, the report said.

The ministry said that Hamas lawmaker Sheikh Hassan Yousef was released after serving a six-year sentence in several Israeli jails. It added that Mahmoud Hamid Al-Sharif was released after serving a 17-year sentence.

Keep an eye on the sky, boys...

Yousef is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and considered by many to be the most prominent Hamas figure in the West Bank and a representative of the more moderate wing of the movement.

To the extent that anyone in Hamas could be labeled, 'moderate'...

Israeli authorities arrested more than 41 Hamas lawmakers and ministers after the kidnapping of Shalit by Gaza-based military groups in June 2006. Scores of others, including municipal mayors, academicians, and ministers were also rounded up.

Hamas said that the Yousef was one of the key bargaining chips it hoped to use as leverage in the efforts to secure the release of Shalit.

The movement added that Israel is still holding 15 Hamas lawmakers.

Since December 2009, the German mediator and Egypt had failed to finalize the prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel due to the two sides differences.

Hamas wants Israel to free up to 1,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of Shalit, and the Palestinian movement has reportedly presented a list of 450 names in Israeli prisons.

Israel also objects to freeing Israeli Arab prisoners as well as several Hamas military wing leaders. Another issue yet to be settled is Israels demand to deport almost 100 of the 450 heavy prisoners set to be released in the deal.

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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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'They Need to Be Liberated From Their God'

2010-03-06

'I absolutely know that in anybody's eyes I was a traitor," says Mosab Hassan Yousef. "To my family, to my nation, to my God. I crossed all the red lines in my society. I didn't leave one that I didn't cross."

Now 32, Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Throughout the last decade, from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, he worked alongside his father in the West Bank. During that time the younger Mr. Yousef also secretly embraced Christianity. And as he reveals in his book "Son of Hamas," out this week, he became one of the top spies for Israel's internal security arm, the Shin Bet.

The news of this double conversion has sent ripples through the Middle East. One of Mr. Yousef's handlers at the Shin Bet confirmed his account to the Israeli daily Haaretz. Hamas--already reeling from the assassination of a senior military chief in Dubai in January--calls his claims Zionist propaganda. From the Israeli prison he has occupied since 2005, Sheikh Yousef on Monday issued a statement that he and his family "have completely disowned the man who was our oldest son and who is called Mosab."

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Hamas co-founder's son spied for Israel: report

2010-02-25

[Al Arabiya Latest] The son of a Hamas founder was a key mole for Israeli intelligence inside the Islamist movement, helping thwart dozens of attacks, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef was codenamed "The Green Prince" by his handlers in the Shin Bet internal intelligence agency, according to the Haaretz daily.

The article was based on extracts of a book, "Son of Hamas", co-written by Yousef, who converted to Christianity 10 years ago and now lives in California. The book is set to be published in the U.S. next week.

The revelations, if true, are a further blow to Hamas, and its shadowy military wing. They follow accusations that an informer within the group aided the killers of a top Hamas operative in Dubai, an assassination widely blamed on Israel's Mossad but for which no evidence has been made public.

Hamas and Yousef's father denied he could have had any access to sensitive information.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Son of Hamas Bigshot was Israeli agent

2010-02-24

The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership, Haaretz has learned.

Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank. The intelligence he supplied Israel led to the exposure of a number of terrorist cells, and to the prevention of dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts on Israeli figures.

The exclusive story will appear in this Friday's Haaretz Magazine, and Yousef's memoir, "Son of Hamas" (written with Ron Brackin) will be released next week in the United States. Yousef, 32, became a devout Christian 10 years ago and now lives in California after fleeing the West Bank in 2007 and going public with his conversion.

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Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror

2008-07-31

Pops must be thrilled...
A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.

It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. "I'm now called Joseph," he says at the outset.

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Abu Zuhri: Mishaal to meet Abbas in Damascus

2004-12-05

Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas Movement media spokesman in the Gaza Strip, has declared that Khaled Mishaal, political bureau chief of the Movement, would meet PLO executive committee chairman and PA presidential-hopeful Mahmoud Abbas in Damascus. Abu Zuhri in a press statement said that the Mishaal-Abbas meeting would tackle national dialogue, political partnership, unified leadership and the PLO as a possible grouping for all Palestinians.

Hamas considers the PLO as an accomplishment for the Palestinian people that should include all Palestinian forces after restructuring it on the basis of the Palestinian people's real interests, he elaborated. The Hamas spokesman stressed that his Movement did not table any new initiative as certain media were trying to circulate. "Hamas has nothing new on the Hudna (truce) issue and the time was not proper to table any such initiative on our part," he explained. Abu Zuhri affirmed that such an initiative could be considered only after the Zionist occupation authorities halted the daily aggression on the Palestinian masses. He noted that news reports quoting Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the recently released Hamas leader from Zionist jails, was not carried in full. The Sheikh only reiterated past ideas about a Hudna, Abu Zuhri noted, adding that the Palestinian forces could never ponder such a truce while the Zionist aggression was ongoing.

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Hamas will accept Palestinian state in West Bank, Gaza

2004-12-04

In an apparent change in longstanding policy, a top Hamas leader said on Friday the militant group would accept the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as a long-term truce with Israel. "Hamas has announced that it accepts a Palestinian independent state within the 1967 borders with a long-term truce," Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the top Hamas leader in the West Bank, told The Associated Press, referring to lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. Yousef said the Hamas position was new and called it a 'stage'. In the past, Hamas has said it would accept a state in the 1967 borders as a first step to taking over Israel. Yousef did not spell out the conditions for the renewable ceasefire nor did he say how long it would last. "For us a truce means that two warring parties live side by side in peace and security for a certain period and this period is eligible for renewal," Yousef said. "That means Hamas accepts that the other party will live in security and peace". Yousef's comments indicated that four years of fighting with Israel during which the military has targeted the group's top leaders along with international sanctions have taken a toll.

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