Nadene Goldfoot
If anyone knows how Hamas thinks, it's "The Green Prince", Mosab Hassan Yousef, age 47. Born to a Hamas leader, he realized at an early age how wrong everyone was thinking. What was happening to Yousef was more like what had happened to Abram of Ur of the Chaldees, father of both Arabs and Jews. Abram saw that sacrificing people was wrong eventually when he began to sacrifice his own son, Isaac. He saw that much of what came from Babylon was wrong and so decided to take his family and go away, far away to Egypt, where they would be alone and develop under his own new philosophy of how to live in this world.
Yousef explains that the values Hamas is following is a death culture, the opposite of Judaism. Hamas values bringing honor to the family no matter how they achieve that honor, even if it involves killing your own sister. It comes down to life now is unimportant; what happens when we die is the only thing that counts in this culture. Western culture has yet to understand this difference.
The formula for how Hamas has developed its thinking "can be complex, convoluted thinking refers to the unnecessary complication of a simple matter, making it needlessly complicated and hard to navigate."
"Mosab Hassan Yousef (born 5 May 1978) is an American author and ex-Palestinian militant who defected to Israel in 1997, thereafter working as an Israeli spy for the Shin Bet until he moved to the United States in 2007. His father is Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of the Palestinian Islamist organisation Hamas. In March 2010, Yousef published his autobiography, titled Son of Hamas."
A New York Times bestselling author, he is known for his outspoken criticisms of Hamas, the pro-Palestinian movement and Islam's treatment of non-Muslims. He's been given the title of "The Green Prince." I just heard him in an interview on ILTV.
"In 1999, Yousef converted from Islam to Christianity, being formally baptised in 2004, but did not disclose this fact to the public until 2008 due to fears that his family members in Ramallah would become targets for religious persecution by Islamist groups. Though he is against Hamas, he does not want to be responsible for anyone's death, Hamas or not."
"Yousef said he saw the light after a stint in an Israeli jail during the mid-1990s. At Megiddo Prison, he witnessed Hamas inmates leading a brutal year-long campaign to weed out supposed Israeli collaborators. "During that time, Hamas tortured and killed hundreds of prisoners," he said, recalling vivid memories of needles being inserted under fingernails and bodies charred with burning plastics. Many, if not all, had nothing to do with Israeli intelligence. "I will never forget their screams," he continued. "I started asking myself a question. What if Hamas succeeded in destroying Israel and building a state. Will they destroy our people in this way?"
"Beginning with his release from prison in 1997, Yousef was considered the Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, earning himself the nickname "The Green Prince" – using the color of the Islamist group's flag, and "prince" because of his pedigree as the son of one of the movement's founders. He has written about his experience, and one has been made into a movie. Former Shin Bet Deputy Chief Gideon Ezra said "there are hundreds of collaborators like him. He is not unusual. He just decided to write a book about it", though many other Israeli officials have also praised his work,"
I'm praising him. Anyone that can be as logical and come to the same conclusions that I and other Jews have is thinking logically. Thank goodness there are others out there that not been scarred by Hamas illogical thinking. Their brain washing from birth onwards is a strong line of defense for their opposing beliefs of ours. I had begun to think it was impossible to break through.
Hamas does not have a single official flag but is often represented by a green flag featuring the Shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, in white Arabic script. A different, more detailed emblem is used to represent the group's political wing.
The intelligence he supplied to Israel led to the exposure of many Hamas cells, as well as the prevention of dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts on Jews. He has said that he did not inform for money, but rather that his motivations were ideological and religious, and that he only wanted to save lives.
"Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim who became a Christian Zionist, has argued that Yousef presents different versions of his beliefs depending on whether he interacts with Anglophone or Arabic media." I wondered how he could live in his Muslim neighborhood and survive. Walid Shoebat is a Palestinian American speaker, author and a critic of Islam. He was born in the West Bank to an American mother, and converted to Christianity from Islam. Shoebat has claimed to be an ex-PLO terrorist in a CNN television interview. He is a self-proclaimed expert on the dangers of Islam and is also a strong supporter of the State of Israel. Shoebat has also claimed that he firebombed the Israeli bank Bank Leumi; however, after thoroughly investigating this claim, reporters and officials have found no evidence of any attack on the bank in 1979.
"The idea of destroying Israel never left our minds," Shoebat said. "We didn't have any of the critical thinking you enjoy here in the West. . . . We had the idea that Israel must be wiped out, and we must establish a state."
Shoebat is also a writer. He wrote several books, one-Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat it (2007).
Resource:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-convoluted-reasoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosab_Hassan_Yousef
https://www.cairchicago.org/blog/blog/2007/12/shoebat-draws-crowds-debate
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