Son of Hamas Leader Warns: Hamas Wants to ‘Annihilate the Jewish People’
The son of one of Hamas’ founding members says the terrorist organization is a “religious movement” that has the goal of killing not only the Jewish people but also everyone who supports them.
“This is an ugly war. Israel did not start it, but Israel will end it,” Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas founding member Sheikh Hassan Yousef, told CNN’s Jake Tapper. The younger Yousef was born into Hamas but later became an informant for Israel after being repulsed by Hamas’ brutality. He converted to Christianity and wrote a book, Son of Hamas.
Incredible words from @MosabHasanYOSEF, the son of Hamas founding member to CNN’s @JakeTapper:
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Asked what motivates Hamas, he told Tapper, “Well, they are a religious movement, and this is what everybody is afraid to say.”
“If Hamas was a political movement, then we can satisfy their political ambition, but Hamas is a religious movement that does not believe in political borders,” Yousef said. “They want to establish an Islamic state on the rubble of the state of Israel. They want to annihilate the Jewish people and the Jewish state. They want to kill everybody who supports Israel and then establish an Islamic state. But this is not the end. They want to establish eventually an Islamic state, a global state. So this is what’s on their mind, and we know that we cannot satisfy their ambition. And the more power, you know, we give them, the more aggressive they are going to be. Hence, we cannot give Hamas what they want.”
.@JakeTapper: “What can you tell us about what motivates these people. What are they like? What are the leaders of Hamas like? What do they want?”
Mosab Hasan Yosef: “Well, they are a religious movement and this is what everybody is afraid to say. If Hamas was a political… pic.twitter.com/c9mM0JaXUR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 23, 2023
Yousef said he has seen, first-hand, Hamas torture people by putting needles under fingernails.
“Their brutality, their nature, it did not surprise me,” he said, referencing stories of beheadings.
The United States, he insisted, must give Israel what it needs to fight the war.
“Israel is fighting on behalf of America, Israel is fighting on behalf of the Palestinian people, Israel now is fighting on behalf of the free world,” he said. “This is not political propaganda. I, as an ex-Hamas member, the son of the founder of the Hamas organization, and today as an American citizen, I ask the president of the United States to give Israel the necessary cover, the necessary supply, whatever it takes to uproot Hamas. Otherwise, the next war is going to be deadlier.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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