407: Mosab Hassan Yousef | The Green Prince of Hamas
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Mosab Hassan Yousef grew up as the son of a Hamas co-founder, then worked undercover with Israel security service Shin Bet to root out terrorist plots. He is the author of Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Unthinkable Choices and is featured in the documentary The Green Prince.
What We Discuss with Mosab Hassan Yousef:- What it was like growing up in one of the first families of Palestinian terrorist group Hamas -- and why Mosab considers it "the greatest school of [his] life."
- The turning point when Mosab no longer saw Hamas as the "good" guys.
- How Mosab dealt with the loneliness of working undercover for Israeli intelligence against his former friends and family.
- What Mosab feels about the well-meaning but -- he believes to be misguided -- "free Palestine" movement.
- What prompted Mosab to get out of undercover work and chronicle his story for others to read (and watch on television).
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.7 | The special forces on the ground got the green light from the intelligence that I am inside the house still. |
| 0:08.0 | There were like a bunch of Mercava tanks. |
| 0:10.3 | Ten of them storming into the city. |
| 0:12.8 | It's like an earthquake happening. |
| 0:14.8 | It became like a war zone right now. |
| 0:17.2 | So my family right now is cut up in the fire. |
| 0:20.8 | So when I don't surrender, they evacuate my family first. |
| 0:25.0 | They launch a missile into the house. |
| 0:28.0 | And they spray bullets like all over the world. |
| 0:30.7 | Like in my room I had about like 150 bullets just in the wall. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:41.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:46.7 | If you're new to the show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game, |
| 0:50.7 | astronauts, entrepreneurs, bi-psychologists, even the occasional former Gi-Hadi. |
| 0:55.5 | Each show turns our guests wisdom into practical advice that you can use to build a deeper understanding |
| 1:00.7 | of how the world works and become a better critical thinker. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, my friend Masab Hassan, this is, it's a heavy one, first of all, so much so they've made a |
| 1:09.5 | movie about it called The Green Prince. We'll link that in the show notes. |
| 1:12.5 | From Masab, growing up, Hamas was the family business. |
| 1:15.9 | If you're not familiar with Hamas, this is a group that is on the US Terrorist, |
| 1:19.8 | Watchlist, and operates primarily in Israel, Palestine, elsewhere in the area. |
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