Mosab Hassan Yousef isn’t going to be deported from the United States. Yousef, son of one of Hamas’s founders, wrote Son of Hamas, about his time spying for the Shin Bet in Israel on Hamas. Read the book if you’ve got time. It’s a fascinating look into Hamas, Fatah, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel. It’s also crazy how long he spied for, what he was able to prevent, and how long he stayed in prison to maintain his cover.
What I cannot believe is that the Department of Homeland Security wanted to deny him asylum. I don’t know how the nuts and bolts of asylum work, but couldn’t Yousef have appealed to his Shin Bet friends to vouch for him?
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