The son of one of the co-founders of Hamas tells it like it is
Rather than write another long essay detailing (based on facts) the evil and genocidal nature of Hamas in Gaza, I think it better today to let Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, do the speaking. An interview of him by Sky News Australia conducted yesterday is embedded below.
His passionate horror of Hamas — from long very personal experience — is evident and clear. So is his intellectual honesty. He will not lie to himself for the sake of alliance, ethnicity, religion, or anything. All that matters is the truth, which he states very bluntly.
“This is my message: an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas’ founders, enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier and only God knows what will happen next if Hamas is not finished as soon as possible,” Mr Yousef said.
“They opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.
“They are willing to actually sacrifice many Palestinian children, the entire Palestinian people and use them as fuel to … achieve their ideological agendas, their religious agendas.”
To underline the truth of his words, for his own protection Yousef now lives in the United States, his location was kept secret, and he refused to answer any personal questions about his specific plans. He knows better than anyone that Hamas will kill him if it can. It is a organization of violence, hate, and murder. Defy it, no matter who you are, and it will have no mercy upon you.
For such an organization civilized people should exhibit no mercy. It must be treated as the Nazis were treated in World War II. It must be obliterated, no matter the cost.
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Rather than write another long essay detailing (based on facts) the evil and genocidal nature of Hamas in Gaza, I think it better today to let Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, do the speaking. An interview of him by Sky News Australia conducted yesterday is embedded below.
His passionate horror of Hamas — from long very personal experience — is evident and clear. So is his intellectual honesty. He will not lie to himself for the sake of alliance, ethnicity, religion, or anything. All that matters is the truth, which he states very bluntly.
“This is my message: an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas’ founders, enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier and only God knows what will happen next if Hamas is not finished as soon as possible,” Mr Yousef said.
“They opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.
“They are willing to actually sacrifice many Palestinian children, the entire Palestinian people and use them as fuel to … achieve their ideological agendas, their religious agendas.”
To underline the truth of his words, for his own protection Yousef now lives in the United States, his location was kept secret, and he refused to answer any personal questions about his specific plans. He knows better than anyone that Hamas will kill him if it can. It is a organization of violence, hate, and murder. Defy it, no matter who you are, and it will have no mercy upon you.
For such an organization civilized people should exhibit no mercy. It must be treated as the Nazis were treated in World War II. It must be obliterated, no matter the cost.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
That is rare for someone to step outside himself…very rare.
I try to imagine myself in the shoes of others. If China were to force you and yours out of your home state down to the border of Mexico in a no-mans land….and some militia fought back, incurring more deaths vis reprisals–that might be what the oldest members of Hamas feel.
Yet I sense there is something else going on….a Satanic abandon of all that is sacred.
Right now Israel needs technology to see where people may hide underground…though could this tech be used against US in case a wrongful martial law is imposed…against gun rights.
If I am Lucifer–I don’t confine myself to one or the other political party.
If I can convince you whoever the other guy is—is irredeemable…I can encourage you to murder….no matter what you may call yourself.
Israel already uses ground penetrating Radar along is fencing and boarders along with LIDAR to track surface soil disturbances like dumping areas for tunnel excavations.
They have a huge amount of tunnels already mapped out but there are always ones not found yet.
Israel knows how to tunnel rat fight. They have done it for years.
The Rolling Stones
https://youtu.be/Jwtyn-L-2gQ
8:48
“Ah, what’s puzzling you,
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah….”
Who was that so-and-so that taught Hamas powered paragliding?
It is good to have a clear headed look at Hamas, because where I live, most young people believe that Israel is the problem. They adhere to this false narrative, despite the atrocities committed on October 7th and contrary to the long bloody history of this conflict.
Wow- that was a passionate man and a powerful interview. He is right about hamas, and I hope he is right about the rest of what he thinks and says. But I don’t think he is.
Every bomb that drops on Gaza radicalize more in the opposite direction. Every bomb gets more support from the idiots in the west. But that’s what they want, isn’t it? That’s how they’ll go from the river to the sea and annihilate the Jews at whatever the cost is. A death cult keeping heaven packed with young martyrs, God is Great.
I am no supporter of Hamas, they committed atrocities in their attack on Israeli civilians, but to quote Bob from above…
” It must be obliterated, no matter the cost.”
Yes matter the cost!
Every life is sacred, be it Palestinian, Israeli, American or European…. Whoever… To explicitly say that the death of innocent civilians, including women and children is fine as long as the long term goals of a war are accomplished is evil.
Shame upon you Bob, and all those who agree with you!
Hamas have committed an evil crime, but fighting evil with evil will not fix this situation. The killing of innocents can never be justified. Revenge is not a solution, I don’t have any answers, but I do know that the death of untold innocent people is not the answer.
No, Lee, shame on you. According to your argument, in World War II we should have called a ceasefire early so as to avoid killing more Germans, even if it meant the Nazis remained in power.
You are also purposely, intentionaly, and dishonestly misinterpreting what you know I meant: Which is that Hamas has to be obliterated, no matter the cost. We can show some mercy to the civilians of Gaza, but only so much. They are not “innocent” as you so naively claim. They voted for these thugs in 2006 and have allowed them to remain in power for almost two decades. They also, like the Germans in WWII, have either looked the other way when Hamas committed atrocities, or cheered them on.
You also obviously did not watch the interview of the son of Hamas’ co-founder. He explicitly says that the people of Gaza will celebrate the destruction of Hamas, and will benefit from it, despite the horrible cost. Like the Germans and Japanese, the best thing we can do for them now is show no mercy to Hamas, in order free them from these murderers.
No Bob….
I have watched the video… And I agree with everything the man says…. I am sure that most of the population of the Gaza strip wish that Hamas would just go away and they could continue with their lives… Even if under Israeli watch.
What I object to is your comment regarding Hamas…” It must be obliterated, no matter the cost.”
I still say… Yes matter the cost
You put words into my mouth… I know Hamas were elected in a form of a democratic vote almost 20 years ago, and have never been recognised as a real government by the rest of the world. I am not ignorant to the whole situation right now…
I have no support for Hamas, but I also have no support for the deaths of innocents. More killing is not the answer to this situation. The 1940s are almost a century ago, I like to think perhaps we should have grown up a little by now.
Perhaps we should start a dialogue instead of the killing of innocent men, women and children…. You have called me neive on many occasions, but perhaps, just perhaps, actually discussion might help right now.
Lee S: You are incredibly naive. You say Israel should have a “dialogue” with Hamas? What fantasy universe do you live in? Note these comments from the UK foreign secretary today:
Hamas has no interest in negotiation, other than to stall Israel from attacking so it can regroup and commit more atrocities. That is its goal, which is embedded in its founding documents.
The time for negotiation with Hamas has long past. In fact, it never existed, but we have spent twenty years trying.
Your pleas reminds me of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto who worked with the Nazis in the hope they could convince them not to kill everyone. That worked out just fine, didn’t it.
Lee S: Also, Israel has been going out of its way to get the civilians in Gaza to leave. You know who has been stopping them from doing so? Hamas, which wants them to shield itself.
These murderous genocide thugs must no longer hold power over anyone. They must die. The cost will be great, but in the end all decent human beings, both Israeli and Gazan, will benefit.
Anti-Semitism is the one prejudice sadly enjoyed by the extremes of both sides of the political spectrum…and has (like Madonna I suppose) found new ways to invigorate itself and seem passable.
After the excesses of the First World War, back when nobody really knew what a NAZI was, some felt sorry for the Krauts after Hindenburg and how it was revealed that passengers on Lusitania we’re human shields.
That kind of Anti-Semitism pretty much breathed it’s last with Pat Buchanan thinking Demanyuk was a swell guy…with a handful of hillbillies talking about the Liberty.
But a new, popular brand got started with Islam…and not for nothing did some of the 9/11 terrorists get started in Hamburg, with some of them patting some geriatric brown shirts stop the head saying “there, there now…you the “in-thing” again.
The Ayatoolas of Iran need to be eliminated too, just as Hamass will be.
44 years of a islamic revolution has brought the world to the brink of WW3.
“Hamas have committed an evil crime, but fighting evil with evil will not fix this situation.”
There is only one real solution to this situation unfortunately.
“I don’t have any answers”
Yes, that is very apparent. But you are telling people that have suffered great suffering and evil acts of spite and barbarity that they should endure it because you can see no solution. You would clearly understand what the solution would have to be if it happened to your family members. Then you would clearly understand.
“but I do know that the death of untold innocent people is not the answer.”
Agreed, but when one side of an existential intractable conflict insist that they are able to attack at will without any constraints and in fact commit brutal and egregious immoral, spiteful torturous acts against innocents to the tune of over 1,400 plus killed outright. And then they insist that the other side live by the civilized Marquess of Queensberry Rules that they themselves refuse to live one second constrained by is essentially saying that the side that they oppose should commit suicide.
Now is that reasonable to you Lee S?
And so Lee S your entire argument once again has been short circuited by your own weak, irrational disconnected Liberal logic of confusion, chaos and self-suicide that you constantly unconsciously promote.
If one side of an intractable conflict refuses to acquiesce and live in some agreed upon even uncomfortable existence, then there becomes only one eventuality. Power will prevail.
It is easy to be a detached moralist sitting in your comfortable living room drinking your frosty beer in peace with your children happily going about their business. Very easy indeed.
PS: There are costs to conquest and in the real world it is not pretty.
Be morally outraged that there has not been able to be a peaceful resolution to this situation arrived at. But there are powers in the world that have promoted the continuation of this conflict for political and based in religious reasons of strategy.
And the weakness of America in the world is the primary reason that this situation exists, and it falls primarily to the Liberal/ Democrat / now radical Leftist political party and their desire to conform to the Globalist “One World Government” agenda that has delivered us all to this place of chaos, confusion and death cult promoting status.
Weakness brings chaos and the death cult status to the world. Lee S, you, again unconsciously, promote weakness, chaos and the death cult.
GAZA’S GOT TALENT
A Hamas crisis actor is popping up all over the place:
Dying in a hospital bed yesterday
https://t.ly/h2kC-
Showing destress in a bombed out building today
https://t.ly/8U196
A video montage of him
– Bravely serving in the military
– Celebrating an attack on Israel
– Crying as Israel attacks Hamas
https://t.ly/fHViU
While he is not as good as some of America’s crisis actors, I think he at least deserves a nomination for an Academy Award Best Crisis Actor.
Opening and only terms for cease fire:
Hamas delivers ALL hostages unharmed to Israeli forces
ALL Hamas terrorists AND those who ordered this attack surrender to Israeli forces
Until these terms are met there will be no negotiations and the bombing and invasion will continue along with the blocking of ANY aid (money, food, fuel (used to power tunnel ventilation), water (many pipes reconditioned into rocket tubes or IEDs) and medicine.)
Gaza was turned over to the Palestinians (August 2005) as a well equipped area with full utilities and infrastructure – including green houses to grow food. The Palestinians immediately tore down the green houses and scrapped various parts of the infrastructure.
There has been on-going aid in the form of:
Concrete – used to create tunnels
Money – used for Pay-for-Slay payments to terrorists and their families, …etc.
Billions have gone to Gaza
https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-israel-foreign-aid-gaza-strip-611b2b90c3a211f21185d59f4fae6a90
Much of the UN money is US money. We paid for this!
Gaza was the site of many Israeli settlers who were allowed to make homes with in the newly acquired territory taken by Israel during the Six-Day war of 1967. (if an enemy goes to war with you, intent on killing you, you have every right to kill them and take their territory – especially if that territory threatens you in the future.) In 2005 the Israeli settlers were forcibly removed from Gaza by the Israeli government and Gaza was turned over. This was a move to try to create peace.
Rockets have come out of Gaza into Israel ever since and now they have acted with this horrific invasion.
Hamas does not want peace. Hamas wants to kill. Hamas wants to kill Israelis – and Americans, if they can.
How should you respond to people who have for decades stated and acted on trying to kill you?
When one is kind to the cruel,
then you are cruel to the kind.
Hamass MUST BE ANNIHILATED.
Gaza will be Israeli territory because it removes a launching area from terrorists.
Palestinians will be moved out. Either in a box or in a bus. Their choice.
Hamas is over.
Next up will be Hezbollah, and Israel is already shooting at them.
Moved to where?
No country will accept any Palestinians because they all apparently have been made into DeFacto terrorists.
I agree that Israel will use this event to end the existence of the Hamas threat on their border.
How ever they got there they are there and can now justify their taking care of their existential business.
And now we see a pogrom in a Russian airport
Shots reported
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/29/more-than-20-wounded-after-hundreds-of-extremists-storm-russian-airport-in-search-of-jews-n2165680
In prophecy, some held that Russia would try to move on Israel…which I never understood.
However, Putin’s vulnerability may make him see an opportunity to mobilize individuals that would otherwise be a threat to him…as Chechens were.
Where Russian troops looked at Ukrainians as Slavic brothers….the ferocity we are seeing across the board against Israel might be a way for Putin to get fresh blood in his own campaign…”help fight Ukraine, and I back an attack on Israel.”
James Street-
crisis-actor stuff– good spot!
Tangentially, I swear I’ve seen the same building destroyed a dozen times, from a dozen different angles.
Question:
Can someone explain to me why Gaza looks like an endless concrete jungle of marxist-stalinist minimalist architecture?
I see no business of any kind. Where do these people work? Who owns these buildings?
Why is the electricity, water & sewer still functioning, and For What Reason do any of these people have access to cell towers or hard-wired fiber optic cables.?
—–
The Warship Voyager
Season 4, Episode 23 “Living Witness”
https://youtu.be/TWfSvBGtYYI
(3:23)
“When diplomacy fails, there’s only one alternative, violence. Force must be applied without apology.”
wayne,
“I see no business of any kind. Where do these people work?”
It’s usually street markets and small shops.
“Walking in Gaza, Palestine | Food Market | Gold Souk | Bazaar | Mosque Omari | Old City” (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCWjYBsr8M
“Palestine Gaza Walking Tour” (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSKPXTCz08
In my city we have a couple little Gazas and they look and kinda behave the same (minus the rockets).
Ian–
Thanks for that, but…. I would put forth the proposition; ya’ can’t run a city with street-markets and small shops.
Where did all this concrete come from, to build this minimalist stalinist-utopia? Everything looks exactly the same, all the time, except for rumble, which is magically cleaned up with heavy equipment running diesel fuel.
Do these people own their concrete jail-cells or do they pay rent to someone? And whom would that be?
Where is the food coming from?
Why is there still water & electric going into this war-zone, and why hasn’t internet access been eliminated?
“Nuke the Entire Site from Orbit” (It’s the only way to be sure…)
https://youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q
(0:08)
wayne,
“ya’ can’t run a city with street-markets and small shops.”
Indeed. If you look at other Arab countries, it’s similar. They’re usually poor. If there’s income from natural resources and it’s somehow shared with the people (like through the public sector where almost nobody really works and many are corrupt), they stop working once basic needs are met. (They bring that mentality with them to Western welfare states: small shops, street markets, services, but many remain in welfare and rather work in the shadow economy.)
“Where did all this concrete come from”
Imported during better times I think. Like most of the other equipment. Which they often used to turn into fortification and weapons, so that further imports were stopped/limited.
“Everything looks exactly the same”
There’s some variation. But I can imagine with those limited supplies you just build basic structures. Plus the uncertainty whether it’s destroyed during the next conflict anyway, so why do fancy stuff. (For the few more affluent there exist luxurious buildings, even a Western-style “Gaza Mall” selling international brands.)
“Do these people own their concrete jail-cells or do they pay rent to someone? And whom would that be?”
Did some quick research. 70% are below the poverty line and can’t afford buying property, so they seem to rent. Gaza was a hot investment place in the early 2010s (growing demand and very limited supply) and it looks like affluent individuals bought residential properties to rent out.
Interested in some nice beachfront apartment? Check it out, man:
https://palestine.io/en/property-new/?cy=Gaza%20Strip&ln=&py=&or=Sell
The legal background of landownership seems to be complicated, with all the difficult history and troubles.
https://www.nrc.no/resources/reports/a-guide-to-housing-land-and-property-law-in-the-gaza-strip/
“Where is the food coming from?”
Worldbank data says around 1/3 is imported. Reading up on it, they’re over-exploiting their own food production (water, soil) to feed the growing population and it seems that Israel is interfering in farmland and sewage issues, all contributing to a shrinking production capacity.
“water & electric”
Seems to be running on Diesel generators. With what’s left of the fuel.
Look, I’m no expert on Gaza, much of this reply was researched in the last 20 mins. So don’t quote me on it. :)