The Green Prince Page #9

get killed somehow.

I couldn't just sit

silently and watch it.

We got a really

big development to this story.

The United States

has now dropped its push

to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef,

because of what

lawyers called "new evidence."

Homeland Security previously

called him a security threat

because of his ties

to the militant group Hamas.

This man, Yousef, is the son

of one of its founders,

but after spending ten years

as a spy for Israel,

and converting to Christianity,

he says deportation

would mean certain death.

During a 15 minute

hearing this morning,

a U.S. Department of Homeland

Security attorney announced

that the government

was dropping its objections,

and an emigration

judge ruled that,

pending a routine background

check, Yousef can stay.

The Shin Bet had

the ability to stop me.

They didn't do it.

When I look at it today,

I say, you know, maybe this is

their way totell me,

"Okay, no, you can goon.

Okay, we're not

going toapprove it,

we don't like it,

but we don't stop you.

And this is our way

tohelp Mosab."

And today, I really believe

this is what they did.

Maybe we're not family

in the blood,

but the bond between us

is much stronger than the bond

of brothers or family or blood.

The bond between us

is the bond of truth,

and it's unbreakable.

And he knows the truth,

and he took a stand

for the truth,

unlike many Shin Bet agents

whoworked with me side by side

and saw how much we put effort

tostop terrorist attacks.

And all of them

saw me, you know,

struggling, facing deportation,

being disowned

for the sake of the state

that we fought for,

and none of them came out

tosupport, none of them.

This journey,

for me as a person,

as a human being,

is always and it is still

I think the most important

journey of my life.

Not because of Mosab,

not because of the Shin Bet,

because of me,

because during the time,

and along the way,

I learned more about myself,

about life, about friendship.

Gonen risked his life

tosave mine.

And I hope that

one day, you know,

people will be able tosee

the beauty of this man's heart,

and I hope that

our people in the region

will learn from this experience,

how twopeople

like Gonen and myself

can come toa place

where we can trust each other

and work tobe constructive,

and tobuild,

and instead of destroy

and spend our lives fighting.

Gonen is a brother today,

and I won't hesitate

tosacrifice my life

tosave his,

because he already did,

and I owe him.

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