Masab Yousef is the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef (who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization). The young man who used to assist his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. "I'm now called Joseph," he says of his new life in California.
He doesn't attempt to hide his affection for Israel, or his abhorrence of everything representing the surroundings in which he grew up: the nation, the religion, the organization.
"Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country," he says.
"You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."
Is that the justification for the suicide attacks?
"More than that. An entire society sanctifies death and the suicide terrorists. In Palestinian culture a suicide-terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheikhs tell their students about the 'heroism of the shaheeds.'"
(Source Ha'Aretz)
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