The Green Prince Page #6

hundreds of Israeli citizens.

And my father was the top

Hamas leader in the West Bank,

where most of the suicide

bombing attacks came from.

Mosab was terrified.

He knew that

it's a matter of time

that his father

would get intothe list.

Mosab called us,

"Let's arrest my father.

And then I'll know

that my father is in prison,

and nothing happens tohim."

I was carrying

very huge responsibility.

I knew what I did

was not shameful,

and what I did was

very, very important

and was necessity.

There is not lots of money.

You're not paid as people think

you're paid millions,

not even thousands.

You are risking everything,

and then there is nocelebration.

I promise you, we never opened

a bottle of champagne

because we saved

dozens of lives.

The prize was

a different kind of prize.

We told him you can't just,

you know, finish

with the Second Intifada,

finish with Defense Shield,

and goback toyour life.

It's, you know,

something that won't happen.

Everybody expects you

tobe arrested.

We have todoit.

And he needed toagree,

and he eventually agreed,

togoand spend time in prison,

although he did nothing wrong.

He was working for us,

but this was the only way

tokeep him alive.

We were in the Maskoveieh,

where I was tortured

the first time.

My father was there,

and they made it look

like interrogation cell.

Once the door is closed,

Gonen would come in,

and we just continue our work.

And then when

I come back to the cell,

I'm totally exhausted

from working all day long,

somy father

and the other cell prisoners

would think that I just had

a rough day interrogation.

Allahu Akbar.

I'm looking at my father,

just living his reality,

not knowing

what's really happening.

In a perfect world,

I wanted him toknow everything,

but togive him

that kind of information,

it's not going

tomake sense tohim.

And that's why

we lived in twodifferent worlds.

I have a feeling

Hassan Yousef knew Mosab

is working for us.

Like a husband that

his wife is cheating on him.

And all the signs

are written on the wall,

but he doesn't want

tolook at it.

Hassan Yousef had

all the signs on the wall.

Palestinians now are

only waking up tothe news

that Yasser Arafat has died.

It came at 5:
30 in the morning

here in Ramallah.

When Arafat died,

we didn't really know

what's going

to happen afterwards.

We were worried

about the possibility

that Hamas is going

totake over Ramallah.

Soagain,

we did what we know todo.

We started togather information.

When I got out of prison,

my father was released as well.

Hamas and other Palestinian

factions were preparing

for the elections.

The Hamas strategy was to bring

their military wing members

down to the street

to show power.

It saddened him

to see the movement

is getting out of his control,

and young military guys

taking over

just sending everybody

to destruction.

He was very conflicted.

He did not have anybody to talk

about his frustration.

I was the only person there

that could listen tohim

and understand

what he was saying.

We had a group

of foreigners come in,

and I invited them

to come meet with my father.

I told them,

"Here is the situation.

Would you please help him see

what you see from the outside?"

And he met with lots of seculars

who shared with him

alternative ways

of fighting occupation

without causing bloodshed.

And somehow he was comfortable

with that approach,

which, you know, practically

brought him to the level

to think of having

a truce with Israel.

Now, when he start toshare

what he understands

with the Hamas leaderships

in Gaza Strip,

they didn't know

where he was coming from.

Israeli Shin Bet

never came to me and said,

"Hey, how about you convince

your father to hold a truce?"

Actually, they did not

like that very much.

The Israeli I ntelligence

wanted me toact

like somebody who's zealous,

somebody who's angry at Israel,

somebody whodoes not

believe in peace,

somebody who's a terrorist,

because that was the goal,

toinfiltrate

terrorist organizations

by playing that

you are a terrorist.

Now, when I did

the opposite of that

toconvince my father

that a truce with Israel

will save human lives,

and my father was convinced

for the individual

whoworks within the Agency,

that was, "Wow, that's great."

But for the mind of the Agency,

that was not good.

That was not "Bravo."

That was like,

"Stop what you're doing,

and focus, you know,

on our game."

Mosab has his own views,

and he never, never agreed

just toget orders

without thinking

and without processing.

And he didn't act

like a very religious guy.

And this was another concern,

because we were afraid

all the time that someone

will suspect him,

not because

what he does for Israel,

but because the way he acts.

My father got the word

from Gaza saying that

Israel hit us with a missile.

He was invited

toAl Jazeera tocomment.

He was, of course, furious,

he was very disappointed,

because at that time,

he worked very hard

toestablish a hudna,

a truce, with Israel.

Gonen told me,

"We didn't do it."

SoI asked the guys

at Al Jazeera,

"Doyou have a filming

of the explosion?"

I'm looking at the video

again and again and again,

and always the explosion

came from under.

And the smoke

was completely white,

which is the material

that Hamas used tobuild

their homemade missiles.

There was vehicle that had in it

tons of missiles and explosives.

Something went wrong

with the car

that simply exploded and killed

all these civilians

who were around it.

I brought my father

to the control room

and I showed him

how the explosion happened.

It was obvious and clear,

but he simply ignored it.

That started a new war.

Suddenly, you had missiles,

which we never had before.

The world changed,

and it became

ten times more violent.

Part of the reaction

was toarrest

all top Hamas leaders.

I received a phone call

from the Shin Bet office saying,

"Your father

will be arrested."

And I was like,

"Well, if this is the case,

this is the case."

Then when I received

the second part of the order,

which was,

"And you are going too."

I was like, "That's impossible.

I'm not going tojail again."

Our part was tocalm him down,

toexplain, toreason it,

and explain why we doit,

and it became

a very hard mission todo.

I remember I start even

tocry, you know,

because I could not

even understand

or absorb the whole situation.

I went back home afterwards

just tohave the last dinner,

you know,

with my mom and my dad.

My dad was

in the kitchen cooking,

and he told me, he asked me,

"Why don't you come

give me a hand?"

Because usually when

he's cooking I like tohelp him.

And usually, you know,

there's a competition,

who's got like

the best recipe and all that.

And you know,

it's like he wanted just toplay

the same game, not knowing

what's waiting for him.

So I thought tomyself,

you know, let's just forget

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