The Green Prince Page #2

I had a feeling

when I'm going torecruit him.

After a few weeks,

they brought me to the level,

to break me down.

Officer came and sat down,

and he asked me,

"Why doyou get yourself

in trouble like this?

You're still very young.

If you did something,

just why didn't you

tell those guys?

And you're trying

toplay the tough guy?

You know, that's

not gonna work for you.

That's just

gonna make it worse."

He told me

those guys had believed

that you did something big,

and if you didn't

tell them the truth,

they're gonna continue

till they extract

that information from you.

I told him,

"Listen, I bought guns,

but we never used the guns.

We are not connected

toany military cell.

I am sure that father

is very disappointed.

I promise you.

I'm not lying toyou."

He kinda believed what I said.

I had a killer instinct.

I knew it, you know.

I was sointoit.

I knew that it's going tohappen.

He asked me,

"Would you work for us?"

And I thought, "Is this guy

like out of his mind, or what?"

How can he convince

someone like me

now towork for Israel?

Simply, because of my father,

I will never betray my father.

He knows

that when he says "Yes",

maybe things

will be more smooth,

more easy.

He was afraid.

I thought, what about

if I tell them "Yes"?

This way,

I can get out of prison.

So I told them "Yes."

They said, "If we release you,

everybody is going to question

how come we released you,

and you will be exposed

and possibly killed.

You have to go

to the Megiddo Prison.

There you just

take care, and get toknow

all the Hamas leaders in prison,

and when you get out of prison,

we will meet again,

and we talk."

Whorules and whogoverns

what happens inside the prison

is not the Israeli government,

it's not the Shin Bet,

it's not the Israeli police.

They are organized by sections.

So when Mosab comes,

he gets to the Hamas section.

There, they have

their own security force.

When prisoners come from

Shin Bet interrogations,

they ask a very tricky question.

"Were you asked

towork for Israel

during your interrogation?"

If they say "No,"

that's it, they are marked,

as a potential Israeli source.

Why? Because

they know that, usually,

we don't miss the opportunity

totry and recruit someone

during their interrogation.

I came to the Hamas people.

I told them,

"The Israeli Intelligence

offered me towork for them,

and I said yes,

and my plan is totake revenge.

If I had an opportunity

to kill my handler,

to kill any Israeli,

I wouldn't hesitate a second."

They said, "Is that it?"

And I said, "This is it."

Said, "What's your network?

Did they connect you with

somebody inside the prison?"

And I was like, "No, they did

not connect me with anybody."

They come back

with the same question,

"What's your network?" I said,

"No, there is nonetwork."

"What is the plan?

You just told them,

'Okay, I work with you,'

and they did not

give you any mission?"

I said, "No."

I told them the truth,

and the truth

did not make any sense tothem.

Yes, he is the son

of Hassan Yousef,

and they honor Hassan Yousef.

But then, he is alone in prison,

and things can happen.

His uncle was there.

Actually, his uncle

was torturing people

that agreed towork for Israel

when they arrived toprison,

because inside prison,

they don't want anybody

tospy on them.

And he is afraid.

I remember one of the times,

the Hamas security guys

would come and say,

"Everybody evacuate

this tent."

Now, we leave our stuff,

we leave whatever we are doing,

they close the tent,

nobody can see what's going on,

and they turn on

all the TVs

of the section very loud

and they ask some of

the guys tostart singing,

so the soldiers outside

don't hear

the prisoners screaming.

Now, the prisoner was screaming

like crazy inside,

and we did not know

what was happening with him.

People that we just get toknow,

after a couple days,

"Where are they?

Why don't we see them anymore?"

They're gone.

They're just held in that corner

being tortured,

their body is being burned...

the Hamas guys put needles

under their fingernails,

burned plastic on their bodies.

There was no limit.

Sometimes without evidence,

they tortured people todeath.

We're talking about

not one prisoner or two,

we're talking about hundreds.

I was looking at that picture,

and I was thinking,

"This is my father's project."

When we sit at home

like a family,

and my father

used toshare with us

about his goals.

He would say, "I work for Allah.

There is a chance toget killed

anytime soon, for this project."

That's my father, telling me

that he could get killed

for the sake of Hamas

and please toaccept,

he was saying

please tounderstand,

"If anything happens tome,

take care of each other.

Take care of your mom."

And I had tohear that

again and again and again.

I had towitness

the Israeli soldiers

pulling him from among us,

and taking him, humiliating him,

and putting him in prison

for a long time.

For what? For the sake of Hamas.

Now here I am in prison,

and I see Hamas.

And that was

really shocking.

My father wanted from us

to be connected always

to the land,

and olive trees,

since olive trees

are very important

in the Palestinian culture.

At the age of five,

he asked me

to go with our neighbors

to see how people harvest olives

and take care of their land.

I remember very well

the atmosphere

was really amazing.

And the family that

my father trusted with

asked their son

to take me home before the dark.

On the way home,

this guy started

toact in a weird way,

you know, trying totouch me.

And they knew that

he had the evil desires.

I ran for my life.

I ran toprotect myself.

He was much bigger.

He was much stronger.

And I could not resist anymore.

What happened was

absolutely brutal and dark.

When I got back home,

you know, my mom was waiting,

and I could not tell her

a word about what happened.

For some reason, I was ashamed.

I never shared that

with anybody,

because if that news came out,

I would have

a problem at school,

I would have a problem

in the future,

and I would be isolated,

because in my society,

the more painful thing

than being raped

is tohave the reputation

of being raped.

It's very hard toface

this monster called shame.

After I was released

from prison,

I was still under huge shock.

At that time, my father

was in Israeli prison.

Most of my friends at school,

they were already

in their first and second year

at university,

and I was not graduated.

I was on my own,

and I did not know

who to trust anymore.

So now I don't think

about revenge anymore,

'cause I don't know

what I'm fighting for.

Couple of weeks

after I was released,

I received a phone call

from same person

who recruited me.

He told me, "Listen, I know

that you have many questions.

We cannot talk over the phone.

I would like if can have

a cup of coffee

and discuss these things."

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