The Green Prince Page #8

thinking that the FBI is going

to just put me on an airplane

and send me back.

There was always a problem

with how can I convince

those people that I am

not involved in terrorism.

I shared the story with

the core group in the church.

And I was expecting

an immediate support,

but tolook at people's faces

and see fear,

and see doubt,

that's something

that I was not expecting.

They were not only

not believing,

they were also scared

of the fact that I was there.

Nobody would believe my story.

No one.

I was without anything.

I was without a shelter.

I became without a job, jobless.

I became without a community.

I became completely alone,

and my intention was togopublic.

I knew the moment I am gonna say

that I worked for

the Israeli Intelligence.

First of all, I am done.

I have no future.

I'm gonna become from a prince

toa traitor, immediately.

Nobody's going

tosympathize with me.

I'm going to bring lots of shame

to my mother, to my father.

It was the shame

that I had toface,

you know, as a human being.

Since I was a child,

I was raped.

I could not tell

my parents. Why?

So that was like finally

a chance or an opportunity

to fight against

this dangerous enemy,

the force of shame.

My father had access

to a cell phone

that was smuggled

to prison at that time.

So I called him and told I him,

"Listen, I'm writing a book.

The book is going tocome out,

and I'm telling the world

about my relationship

with the Israeli I ntelligence.

I am not whoyou think I am.

I worked for Israel

for ten years.

I put you and myself

in prison toprotect you.

And you are not

assassinated today

because of this arrangement."

He told me, "Listen, come back,

and I will protect you.

Don't worry about anybody."

I told him,

"I am not coming back,"

and I asked him, actually,

in that conversation

to disown me, because I knew

the pressure of the society.

And he told me

this is not an option,

while he was grieving, you know.

He was in lots of pain,

he was under shock.

He told me, "You are my son,

and you will continue

tobe my son.

Noone can take that away."

...putting

his own life in danger

by going public with his story

in one remarkable book called,

"Son of Hamas",

giving a never

before seen look...

Mosab Hassan Yousef says

that he turned against Hamas

because he believed...

...served

as Israel's most valuable spy

inside Hamas

for over a decade...

...young man who saw bad things

happening and decided

to take a stand.

Your own father

has written from prison,

where he still is, a statement:

He said that you were

a collaborator,

collaborating with the enemy.

He said that you're betraying

Palestinians, betraying Islam.

How doyou respond tothat?

I knew that I was really hurting

people I love,

and people

wholoved me very much.

When I thought about

my brothers and sisters,

those are like,

were my children.

And they never had a problem

without calling me.

And I always found a solution.

And that was the first time

when my brother called me

asking for a solution,

but unfortunately,

I was the problem,

and I could not provide

a solution for the first time.

I felt hopeless.

I felt that

I stabbed him in the back.

Actually, I felt like

I took each one of them

and I put them on the altar

and slaughtered them,

all of them.

The law was very clear

with the deportation case.

"You were affiliated,

at some point of your life,

with Hamas organization.

You bought guns with

the intention of killing people.

Sothat's enough.

It doesn't matter

what you did afterwards."

The law says if you have

that kind of history,

you don't qualify

to get American,

to become American citizen.

But how much danger is Yousef

really in if he's deported?

Al Qaeda immediately issued

a death sentence for him.

Hamas leaders in Gaza...

One day, I see a big picture

of The Green Prince, page one,

in the Arutz newspaper.

I felt my heart's, you know,

beating hard and...

You need tounderstand,

The Green Prince was

one of the most sensitive

secrets of the Shin Bet.

The option tohave him

on the front page

of the newspaper, something

I couldn't even consider.

I was shocked.

I started tothink, you know,

"How come he's

in the United States?

What's going on?"

I read that he left

the West Bank,

he converted to Christianity,

and that he lives

in the United States, homeless.

He was in real trouble.

And I knew it.

I really felt responsible

for Mosab,

as a source,

and as a human being.

I felt that,

as his former handler,

I cannot let him just meet

his destiny without helping him.

I started to think about

of all the legal implications

of what I'm going to do.

What will be the Shin Bet

response for that?

Am I allowed to do it?

I knew that if I'll contact

the Shin Bet

and ask their permission,

I'll get a "no",

and I didn't want

toget this "no."

I felt that I really need

to go and meet him.

I thought that

by exposing myself,

I can be arrested and accused

by the Shin Bet of treason.

But I knew that this is

what I need todo.

And then I took off

and I went to San Diego.

This was a very tough flight.

It was passing not only

geographical borders.

I needed

to cross mental borders.

And I was walking down

in a long corridor,

and in the end,

I see Mosab standing.

And I approached him,

and we hugged

and started tolaugh.

I don't know why laughing,

but we were

standing there laughing

for like,

I don't know, ten minutes.

We were laughing this, you know,

this was like breaking

everything, all the borders,

all the problems, everything.

The son of a Hamas founder

sought sanctuary here

in California.

The Federal Government is now

pushing for his deportation,

claiming he poses

a threat tothe U.S.

Mosab told me,

"For some reason,

they misread the book

and they really think

that I'm a terrorist,

and they think that I'm a threat

tothe U nited States."

Homeland Security will argue

that he has provided

material support

toterrorist organizations

in court tomorrow.

They want him deported.

We'll be live at the...

I got really mad.

You know, I thought tomyself,

you know, it couldn't be.

You know, he helped us

for more than ten years.

I called the Shin Bet.

I asked them to give me

instructions and they didn't.

They didn't respond.

And I said, that's it.

You know, this is ridiculous.

How many times

have you ever heard

an agent of Shin Bet,

the Israeli Secret Service,

go public?

This is a man

who was Mosab Hassan's handler

for many, many years,

and he believes now

it is his solemn moral duty

to stand up, to go public,

which is a risk to his own life

because he believes

Mosab Hassan...

It's not just a reality show

that you watch on TV and say,

"Oh, let's see what

the judge is going to decide."

Mosab is going tostay

in the U.S. and live,

or Mosab is going

tobe deported toJordan,

and then whoknows

what will happen?

Probably, he will

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